Why does NASA’s Perseverance rover keep taking pictures of this maze on Mars?
(Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech) If you’ve invested whenever browsing the carousel of raw images from NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover, you may have come across an odd topic: a small, elaborate labyrinth…
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NASA’s Parker Solar Probe spots powerful magnetic explosion aimed at the sun’s surface
A solar flare appearing from the sun, imaged in severe ultraviolet light by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory on Feb. 9, 2024. (Image credit: NASA/SDO) While making a death-defying dive through…
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NASA’s Psyche spacecraft hits a speed bump on the way to a metal asteroid
An illustration portrays a NASA spacecraft approaching the metal-rich asteroid Psyche. There are no strategies to mine Psyche, such asteroids are being considered for their important resources. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU Each…
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NASA’s Lucy spacecraft snaps first close-ups of weird peanut-shaped asteroid
NASA’s Lucy spacecraft has actually recorded its very first high-resolution pictures of an asteroid, exposing a bizarrely shaped 150-million-year-old area rock. The asteroid Donaldjohanson formed when 2 smaller sized items…
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NASA’s Curiosity rover has found the longest chain carbon molecules yet on Mars
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has actually discovered the biggest natural (carbon-containing) particles ever discovered on the red world. The discovery is among the most considerable findings in the look for…
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NASA’s Parker Solar Probe completes historic Christmas Eve flyby of the sun — but it could take days to know if it survived
An illustration of the Parker Solar Probe skimming the sun more detailed than ever in the past. (Image credit: NASA/JHUAPL) NASA’s Parker Solar Probe is investing Christmas Eve on a…
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NASA’s Europa Clipper Spacecraft Deploying Its Instruments
NASA’s Europa Clipper– the biggest spacecraft NASA has actually ever established for a planetary objective– is currently 20 million km (13 million miles) from Earth. An artist’s idea of NASA’s…
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For the second time this year, NASA’s JPL center cuts its workforce
“This reduction is spread across essentially all areas of the Lab including our technical, project, business, and support areas,” Leshin composed. “We have taken seriously the need to re-size our…
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NASA’s Juno Orbiter Discovers New Volcano on Io
Utilizing images from the JunoCam instrument aboard NASA’s Juno spacecraft, planetary researchers have actually found a fresh volcano with several lava circulations and volcanic deposits covering a location about 180…
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With NASA’s plan faltering, China knows it can be first with Mars sample return
Concerns to paradise– “China is most likely to end up being the very first nation to return samples from Mars.” Stephen Clark – Sep 6, 2024 6:58 pm UTC Expand…
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