#Russia wants to return to Venus, build reusable rocket

“#Russia wants to return to Venus, build reusable rocket” Russia’s Soyuz for many years made it the only country able to ferry astronauts The head of Russia’s space agency said Friday that Roscosmos wants to return to Venus and bring back soil samples and build spacecraft that will surpass Elon Musk’s rockets. Last week America’s…

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#OSIRIS-REx is one rehearsal away from touching asteroid Bennu

“#OSIRIS-REx is one rehearsal away from touching asteroid Bennu” This artist’s concept shows the trajectory and configuration of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft during Matchpoint rehearsal, which is the final time the mission will practice the initial steps of the sample collection sequence before touching down on asteroid Bennu. Credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona NASA’s first asteroid sampling…

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#NASA’s Maven observes Martian night sky pulsing in ultraviolet light

“#NASA’s Maven observes Martian night sky pulsing in ultraviolet light” The ultraviolet “nightglow” in the Martian atmosphere. Green and white false colors represent the intensity of ultraviolet light, with white being the brightest. The nightglow was measured at about 70 kilometers (approximately 40 miles) altitude by the Imaging UltraViolet Spectrograph instrument on NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft….

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#Rice researchers use InSight for deep Mars measurements

“#Rice researchers use InSight for deep Mars measurements” An artist’s impression of Mars’ inner structure. The topmost layer is the crust, and beneath it is the mantle, which rests on a solid inner core. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Using data from NASA’s InSight Lander on Mars, Rice University seismologists have made the first direct measurements of three…

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