Perseverance Has a Pet Rock!
Friday, 03 June 2022 12:31
How do you choose a rock on Mars? Sometimes you don't- it chooses you. For the past 4 months, Perseverance has had an unexpected traveling companion. Back on sol 341- that's over 100 sols ago, in early February- a rock found its way into the rover's front left wheel, and since hitching a ride, it's been transported more than 5.3 miles (8.5 km). This rock isn't doing any damage to the wheel, but NASA selects new instruments for priority Artemis science on Moon
Friday, 03 June 2022 12:31
Adding to the growing list of commercial deliveries slated to explore more of the Moon than ever before under Artemis, NASA has selected two new science instrument suites, including one that will study the mysterious Gruithuisen Domes for the first time.
These payload suites mark the second selection through the agency's Payloads and Research Investigations on the Surface of the Moon (PRIS Student-Built, Dime-Sized Instrument Is Venus-bound on NASA's DAVINCI
Friday, 03 June 2022 12:31
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Venus Oxygen Fugacity (VfOx) is a small, button-sized sensor aboard NASA's DAVINCI mission to Venus' atmosphere that will be designed, fabricated, tested, operated, and analyzed by undergraduate and graduate students as the mission's Student Collaboration Experiment.
Planned for launch in 2029, the DAVINCI mission (Deep Atmosphere Venus Investigation of Nob NASA's DAVINCI Mission To Take the Plunge Through Massive Atmosphere of Venus
Friday, 03 June 2022 12:31
In a recently published paper, NASA scientists and engineers give new details about the agency's Deep Atmosphere Venus Investigation of Noble gases, Chemistry, and Imaging (DAVINCI) mission, which will descend through the layered Venus atmosphere to the surface of the planet in mid-2031. DAVINCI is the first mission to study Venus using both spacecraft flybys and a descent probe.
DAVINCI, Algorithm simulates intergalactic medium of the Universe in seconds
Friday, 03 June 2022 12:31
The Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias (IAC) has led the development of a new numerical procedure that allows to reproduce in a few seconds with Big Data and machine learning techniques the intergalactic medium obtained from a cosmological simulation of 100,000 hours of computation. Thanks to this algorithm, called Hydro-BAM, researchers have been able to exploit the hierarchy in the relations Close encounter more than 10,000 years ago stirred up spirals in accretion disk
Friday, 03 June 2022 12:31
Dr. LU Xing, an associate researcher from the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, along with collaborators from Yunnan University, the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, and the Max Planck Institute, have used high-resolution observational data from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to discover a massive protostellar disk i China launches nine Geely-01 satellites
Friday, 03 June 2022 12:31
China on Thursday launched a Long March-2C carrier rocket to place a group of nine commercial satellites in space.
The Geely-01 constellation consisting of nine satellites were lifted at 12:00 p.m. (Beijing Time) from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province and entered the preset orbit.
Owned by GeeSpace, a subsidiary of Geely Technology Group, the s China's newly-launched meteorological satellites put into trial operation
Friday, 03 June 2022 12:31
Two meteorological satellites, along with their ground application systems, began trial operation on Monday, said the China Meteorological Administration.
The two satellites, Fengyun-3E (FY-3E) and Fengyun-4B (FY-4B), will provide observation data and application services to global users.
The FY-3E, launched on July 5, 2021, was the world's first meteorological satellite in early mor The consequences of climate change in the Alps are visible from space
Friday, 03 June 2022 12:31
Global warming has a particularly pronounced impact on the Alpine region. Like the Arctic, this European mountain range is becoming greener. Writing in the journal Science, researchers from the University of Lausanne and the University of Basel have now used satellite data to show that vegetation above the tree line has increased in nearly 80% of the Alps. Snow cover is also decreasing, albeit s World Environment Day: ESA supports shift to a greener world
Friday, 03 June 2022 12:30
Celebrated each year on 5 June, World Environment Day focuses on awareness of environmental challenges and action to protect planet Earth. Take a look at five ESA-supported projects that use satellite data and services to address specific environmental problems.
European parliamentarian seeks to build up ties between U.S. and E.U. in space
Friday, 03 June 2022 11:15
A member of the European Parliament is touring the United States to help enhance space policy relationships while also promoting an effort to develop a European space law.
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Earth from Space: Puglia, Italy
Friday, 03 June 2022 07:00
Part of Puglia, or Apulia, a region in southern Italy, is featured in this image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission.
NASA moon mission set to break record in navigation signal test
Thursday, 02 June 2022 19:58
As the Artemis missions journey to the moon and NASA plans for the long voyage to Mars, new navigation capabilities will be key to science, discovery, and human exploration.
Through NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services initiative, Firefly Aerospace of Cedar Park, Texas, will deliver an experimental payload to the moon's Mare Crisium basin. NASA's Lunar GNSS Receiver Experiment (LuGRE) payload will test a powerful new lunar navigation capability using Earth's Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) signals at the moon for the first time. GNSS refers to satellite constellations commonly used for position, navigation, and timing services on Earth.
NASA to buy five additional Crew Dragon flights
Thursday, 02 June 2022 19:13
NASA is planning to purchase five more Crew Dragon missions to the International Space Station from SpaceX, a move the agency says is needed to ensure long-term access to the station.