#Virgin Galactic shows off passenger spaceship cabin interior

“#Virgin Galactic shows off passenger spaceship cabin interior” This undated photo released by Virgin Galactic shows the interior of their SpaceshipTwo Cabin during a flight. Highly detailed amenities to enhance the customer experience were shown in an online event Tuesday, July 28, 2020, revealing the cabin of the company’s rocket plane, a type called SpaceShipTwo,…

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#New technique enables mineral ID of precious Antarctic micrometeorites

“#New technique enables mineral ID of precious Antarctic micrometeorites” A tiny fragment of an ordinary chondrite (Antarctic meteorite), Yamato-86051, classified into H4, measured by the present Gandolfi X-ray diffraction method. Back scattered electron image (NIPR). Credit: Naoya Imae, NIPR The composition of Antarctic micrometeorites and other tiny but precious rocks such as those from space…

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#Launch of the world’s first soft X-ray satellite with ‘Lobster-Eye’ imaging technology

“#Launch of the world’s first soft X-ray satellite with ‘Lobster-Eye’ imaging technology” The Lobster-Eye X-ray Satellite was successfully launched on July 25 (Saturday) into orbit at the Taiyuan Launch Center with the first signal received. Credit: The University of Hong Kong The ‘Lobster-Eye X-ray Satellite’ was successfully launched on July 25 into orbit from the…

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#ExoMars finds new gas signatures in the martian atmosphere

“#ExoMars finds new gas signatures in the martian atmosphere” This graph shows an example of the measurements made by the Atmospheric Chemistry Suite (ACS) MIR instrument on ESA’s ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO), featuring the spectral signatures of carbon dioxide (CO2) and ozone (O3). The bottom panel shows the data (blue) and a best-fit model…

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