NASA’s adventurous Perseverance rover is currently perched over a big Martian impact crater. And it has a glorious vista. While searching for clues of past habitability and potential hints of extinct life in Mars’ desert, the rover snapped 152 images overlooking the Belva crater, which...
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May 20, 2023 albert
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A spacecraft can’t live among the stars forever. But NASA isn’t quite ready to say goodbye to its 1970s-era Voyager 2, its second-farthest spacecraft exploring what lies beyond the solar system’s outermost planets. It is slowly dying as it hurtles through interstellar space at more...
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November could be a hectic month for launches to the moon. Yes, that’s “launches,” plural. If there were any skepticism on whether the world has entered a new space race, the dueling lunar-bound liftoffs this month could be the smoking gun. After NASA waived-off two...
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NASA is about to intentionally slam a spacecraft the size of a vending machine into a space rock the size of a great Egyptian pyramid. Incredibly, you can watch this unprecedented Sept. 26 event live. The mission is called DART, or Double Asteroid Redirection Test,...
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September 26, 2022 albert
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Between the Hudson and East rivers, practically every square-foot of New York is built, forcing Manhattan architects to look up and down when clients want to expand. The lack of green acres makes it an unusual setting for farming, but like a dandelion in a...
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January 29, 2022 albert
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The oldest, thickest, and toughest Arctic sea ice is weakening. Arctic sea ice has starkly declined over the last 40 years, though polar scientists believed a region dubbed the “Last Ice Area” was largely resistant to melting as the planet warmed. Yet new research published...
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Mars‘ landscape may be barren and dangerous to human life, but thanks to photos like this from NASA’s advanced rovers, that doesn’t stop it from looking any less stunning. Although humans have yet to set foot on Mars, robotics and other technologies have allowed astronomers to...
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Mars doesn’t have too many cloudy days, so this new set of images from a NASA-operated rover is a full-on treat. The Curiosity rover has been gathering data on the Red Planet since it touched down in Aug. 2016. And now, while many space watchers’...
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May 29, 2021 albert
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Soon, astronauts on moon missions won’t have any excuse for not answering their texts. NASA has awarded Nokia of America $ 14.1 million to deploy a cellular network on the moon. The freaking moon. The grant is part of $ 370 million worth of contracts...
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NASA wants to snag a piece of an asteroid, and a new mission launching Thursday is designed to do just that. The space agency’s uncrewed OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will speed toward a meet up with the giant asteroid Bennu after its launch, expected at 7:05 p.m....
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