#Watch NASA’s Perseverance touch down

#Watch NASA’s Perseverance touch down

“#Watch NASA’s Perseverance touch down” February has been a busy month for Mars, with both the United Arab Emirates and China sending instruments to study the planet’s surface. Today, it’s America’s turn: NASA’s rover, called Perseverance, is expected to touch down. Among its cargo is a helicopter drone, Ingenuity, which will perform the first-ever controlled…

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#Tiny Hungarian water-tracker aims to rove the Moon

#Tiny Hungarian water-tracker aims to rove the Moon

“#Tiny Hungarian water-tracker aims to rove the Moon” BUDAPEST – A miniature rover being developed to explore the Moon’s surface is on track to join the search for water there, its Hungarian inventors believe – using a device that weighs less than a bag of sugar. Named after a Hungarian breed of dog, the Puli…

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#Turkey unveils space program including 2023 moon mission

#Turkey unveils space program including 2023 moon mission

“#Turkey unveils space program including 2023 moon mission” ANKARA, Turkey — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan unveiled an ambitious 10-year space program for his country Tuesday that includes missions to the moon, sending Turkish astronauts into space and developing internationally viable satellite systems. Erdogan announced the program, seen as part of his vision for placing…

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#Man launches GoFundMe to send flat-Earther into space

#Man launches GoFundMe to send flat-Earther into space

“#Man launches GoFundMe to send flat-Earther into space” A man fed up with flat-Earthers is crowdfunding a barmy attempt to prove once and for all that our planet is round. Marc Gauld, who describes himself as an “annoyed Scot”, set up a GoFundMe to send one of the deluded conspiracy theorists into orbit. Despite overwhelming…

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#China’s space probe snaps its first images of Mars

#China’s space probe snaps its first images of Mars

“#China’s space probe snaps its first images of Mars” BEIJING – China’s maiden space exploration mission to Mars has captured its first image of the red planet, the space agency said on Friday, some six months after the probe left Earth. The uncrewed Tianwen-1 took the picture at a distance of around 2.2 million km…

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