Efforts to get the mole operational in July 2019. The effort was abandoned in January 2021.Gif: NASA / JPL-Caltech The most recent disappointment on the Red Planet is the mole saga, also …
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As the world watched impatiently Thursday as NASA’s Perseverance rover successfully landed on Mars, the snapshots flooded the social networks of excited spectators who posed on the Red Planet. Most were courtesy …
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Representation of the aeroshell containing the Perseverance rover. Picture: NASA / JPL-Caltech After a seven-month trip to the Red Planet, the Perseverance rover is finally ready to land on Mars. We’ve got …
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NASA’s latest Mars rover launched into space last summer, and after almost seven months of space travel he is now on his final descent to the Red Planet. Mars 2020 Perseverance The …
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Rendering of the Perseverance landing, with the rover still attached to the rear shell and the retrorockets activated for powered descent. Illustration: NASA / JPL-Caltech Failure could take many forms next week …
Read More »SpaceX chosen by NASA to launch the first two elements of the Lunar Gateway
Photo: Joe Raedle / Staff (fake images) POT SpaceX selected to deliver the first two segments of the Lunar Gateway space station into lunar orbit on Wednesday, the second high-profile contract the …
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Few 1-year-olds are as fearless explorers as NASA and the Solar Orbiter of the European Space Agency. The space probe is already 138 million miles from Earth and is about to take …
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Earth’s ‘mini-moon’ bid farewell this afternoon
Photo: NASA Image Library With everything happening in 2020, you can remember the story about the mysterious flying object that fell into the Earth’s orbit September 2020. Unsure of what exactly it …
Read More »Sweet view from Deep Space shows Earth, Venus and Mars in a single frame
Video made from A series of still images Taken by solar orbiter. The brightest things, fRome is from right to left, Venus, Earth and Mars.GIF: ESA / NASA / NRL / Solar …
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