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“#Curiosity: Summer approaches in Gale crater” NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover spotted this dust devil with one of its Navigation Cameras around 11:35 a.m. local Mars time on Aug. 9, 2020 (the 2,847th Martian day, or sol, of the mission). The frames in this GIF were shot over 4 minutes and 15 seconds. Taken from the…
“#Researchers develop dustbuster for the moon” Dust sticks to the boots of Apollo 17 astronaut and geologist Harrison “Jack” Schmitt in 1972. Credit: NASA A team led by the University of Colorado Boulder is pioneering a new solution to the problem of spring cleaning on the moon: Why not zap away the grime using a…
“#NASA selects proposals for new space environment missions” The sun sends out a constant stream of particles and energy, which drives a complex space weather system near Earth and can affect spacecraft and astronauts. NASA has chosen five new mission concept studies for further development to study various aspects of this dynamic system. Credit: NASA…
“#First-ever mission to the Trojan asteroids passes NASA milestone” Engineers install Lucy’s oxidizer tank into the spacecraft structure in the High Bay at Lockheed Martin. The SwRI-led mission has entered the final stage of development be-fore the spacecraft is scheduled to launch in 2021. Credit: Lockheed Martin NASA has approved the final development stage of…
“#Jakob van Zyl, key Jet Propulsion Laboratory engineer, dies” Jakob van Zyl, an engineer who held crucial positions at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and was involved in numerous space exploration missions over decades, has died. He was 63. Van Zyl, who retired in 2019 after a 33-year career, suffered a heart attack on Monday and…
“#Image: Sensing the moon” Credit: The Open University A new sensor to identify lunar volatiles is being assembled in a clean room at The Open University, UK ahead of some exciting missions to the moon. The Ion Trap Mass Spectrometer (ITMS) imaged above is a part of an instrument that will detect lunar volatiles from…
“#Student research team develops hybrid rocket engine” Cross-section of combustion chamber. Credit: University of Illinois Dept. of Aerospace Engineering In a year defined by obstacles, a University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign student rocket team persevered. Working together across five time zones, they successfully designed a hybrid rocket engine that uses paraffin and a novel nitrous…
“#Bacteria could survive travel between Earth and Mars when forming aggregates” The bacterial exposure experiment took place from 2015 to 2018 using the Exposed Facility located on the exterior of Kibo, the Japanese Experimental Module of the International Space Station. Credit: JAXA/NASA Imagine microscopic life-forms, such as bacteria, transported through space, and landing on another…
“#Global magnetic field of the solar corona measured for the first time” Magnetic field of the Sun calculated from the potential field source surface model (Yang et al. 2020, Sci China Tech Sci). Credit: School of Earth and Space Sciences, Peking University An international team led by Professor Tian Hui from Peking University has recently…
“#Ground segment testing a success for James Webb Space Telescope” Now that the observatory has been completely assembled, Webb teams are running full observatory level tests to ensure it is prepared for the rigors of liftoff. Credit: Northrop Grumman Testing teams have successfully completed a critical milestone focused on demonstrating that NASA’s James Webb Space…