Mountain View CA (SPX) May 24, 2023
What would happen if we received a message from an extraterrestrial civilization? Daniela de Paulis, an established interdisciplinary artist and licensed radio operator who currently serves as Artist in Residence at the SETI Institute and the Green Bank Observatory, has brought together a team of international experts, including SETI researchers, space scientists, and artists, to stage her lates

Denver CO (SPX) May 24, 2023
In anticipation of NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample delivery this fall, the team held our first round of rehearsals April 17 to April 27. Our goal was to practice retrieving the spacecraft's sample capsule from a simulated landing site at Lockheed Martin's campus near Denver. I am the Lockheed Martin-based ground recovery lead for sample recovery operations and will help guide the team th

Leeds UK (SPX) May 24, 2023
Academics at the University of Leeds believe they could have found the answer to a long-running mystery behind Jupiter's famous "stripes". Pictures of the planet are characterised by bands of colour, as well as the famous Great Red Spot, but these bands are often seen to move and change - something which scientists have until now not been able to explain. Now thanks to a new discover

Paris (ESA) May 24, 2023
When ESA's Gaia spacecraft scanned the Scorpius constellation and its ancient globular star cluster Messier 4, it captured something strange: a huge dark blob at the cluster's centre, 800 times more massive than our Sun. It is normal for globular clusters to have dark centres made up of many dead stars. But the mass at the centre of Messier 4 looks different - despite being especially larg

Adelaide, Australia w(SPX) May 24, 2023
SmartSat Cooperative Research Centre (CRC), Australia's leading space research centre, has launched a new research program, 'Maya Nula', to develop Australian satellite Earth Observation (EO) capability with space sensor technology to advance Australia's agriculture industry. The name Maya Nula, which translates to "eyes here, there, everywhere" in the Dharug language of the Eora nation, a

Nagoya, Japan (SPX) May 24, 2023
An international team has used satellite- and ground-based ionospheric observations to demonstrate that an air pressure wave triggered by volcanic eruptions could produce an equatorial plasma bubble (EPB) in the ionosphere, severely disrupting satellite-based communications. Their findings were published in the journal Scientific Reports. The ionosphere is the region of the Earth's upper a

Beijing (XNA) May 02, 2023
China's Mars rover Zhurong has provided key observational evidence of liquid water at low Martian latitudes, the warmest regions on the red planet, according to a new study published in the journal Science Advances this week. Previous studies found evidence of a large amount of liquid water on early Mars, but dramatic climate changes led to very low pressure and water vapor content, making

Pasadena CA (JPL) May 24, 2023
Earth planning date: Monday, May 22, 2023- Curiosity successfully wrapped up the "Ubajara" drill campaign over the weekend with some imaging of the drill tailings. This Monday, we are planning two sols (Mars days) of activities to finish up at Ubajara before driving off in the coming sols. Most targeted science today is focused on bedrock target "Apetina," which is situated on the same block as

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