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“#The moons of Uranus are fascinating enough on their own that we should send a flagship mission out there” A montage of Uranus’ large moons and one smaller moon: from left to right Puck, Miranda, Ariel, Umbriel, Titania and Oberon. Other moons are not yet photographed in detail. Original pictures were taken by NASA’s Voyager…
“#An origin story for a family of oddball meteorites” Credit: CC0 Public Domain Most meteorites that have landed on Earth are fragments of planetesimals, the very earliest protoplanetary bodies in the solar system. Scientists have thought that these primordial bodies either completely melted early in their history or remained as piles of unmelted rubble. But…
“#To photograph comet Neowise, it takes patience and placement” Comet NEOWISE is seen from Grandfather Mountain in Linville, N.C., Saturday, July 18, 2020. The newly discovered comet is visible in the Northern Hempisphere but after it’s gone the comet will not reappear for 6800 years. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome) The newly discovered comet Neowise is only…
“#As if space wasn’t dangerous enough, bacteria become more deadly in microgravity” Credit: Shutterstock China has launched its Tianwen-1 mission to Mars. A rocket holding an orbiter, lander and rover took flight from the country’s Hainan province yesterday, with hopes to deploy the rover on Mars’s surface by early next year. Similarly, the launch of…
“#NASA Juno takes first images of jovian moon Ganymede’s north pole” These images the JIRAM instrument aboard NASA’s Juno spacecraft took on Dec. 26, 2019, provide the first infrared mapping of Ganymede’s northern frontier. Frozen water molecules detected at both poles have no appreciable order to their arrangement and a different infrared signature than ice…
“#US accuses Russia of firing anti-satellite weapon in space” US Space Command said the threat against its systems was “increasing” The United States accused Russia of test-firing an anti-satellite weapon in space, warning that the threat against Washington’s systems was “real, serious and increasing.” US Space Command said it “has evidence” that Moscow “conducted a…
“#Russian cargo ship launched to International Space Station” An uncrewed Russian cargo ship lifted off Thursday to deliver a load of supplies to the International Space Station. The Progress MS-15 was launched on schedule from Russia’s Baikonur launch complex in Kazakhstan. It has successfully reached a designated orbit and is set to dock at the…
“#Video: Matthias Maurer: training for a spacewalk” Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer has been training at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, U.S. In this video, he walks us through training for a spacewalk with NASA colleagues in the 12 m deep Neutral Buoyancy Facility (NBL). Matthias traveled to Houston from Europe…
“#Perseverance microphones fulfill long Planetary Society campaign to hear sounds from Mars” The Planetary Society has long history of trying to send a microphone to Mars. In addition to the missions pictured here, the Society attempted unsuccessfully to get microphones on NASA’s Spirit, Opportunity, Curiosity, and InSight missions, as well as the European Space Agency’s…
“#Image: Mars rover revival” Credit: Airbus As Mars exploration prepares for a rebirth, a European rover tunes up its gear for the challenges ahead. On 23 July, ESA and dozens of industrial partners will assess the readiness of the ExoMars robotic explorer, named Rosalind Franklin, for a trip to the Red Planet in 2022. The…