You can watch big asteroid Take a safe flight back to Earth today (March 13) from anywhere with good internet access. Weather permitting, the Virtual Telescope Project will broadcast live telescope views of the recently found asteroid 2022 ES3, which will pass our planet slightly within the orbit of the Moon. Broadcast starts at 2:30 … Read more
WASHINGTON — After nearly a year of operations, NASA’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter is still “as good as new” as it serves as an explorer for the tenacious rover. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory announced on March 11 that Ingenuity had completed its 21st flight on the planet, covering 370 meters during the 129-second flight. The helicopter … Read more
3D view of the point in Earth’s mantle below Africa, shown in red, yellow, and orange. Cyan represents the main mantle boundary, blue indicates the surface, and transparent gray indicates the continents. Credit: Mingming Li / ASU The earth is layered like an onion, with a thin outer crust, a thick, sticky mantle, a liquid … Read more
Engineers and technicians at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida drove the Carrier crawler 2 on March 11, 2022, to the doors of the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB). Soon, you’ll get inside the VAB where you’ll carry an Artemis I Moon rocket to Launch Pad 39B. Credit: NASA/Chad Siwick Yesterday, engineers and technicians at[{” attribute=””>NASA’s … Read more
The cleverness The number of helicopter flights on the Red Planet has reached 21. This 4-pound (1.8 kg) NASA helicopter outperformed another Mars The sortie, agency officials announced today (March 11). Unstoppable #MarsHelicopter! Ingenuity has successfully completed its 21st flight to the Red Planet. The small helicopter flew 370 meters [1,214 feet] at a speed … Read more
Zoom / Artist’s impression of an Earth-like planet in a nearby star system. We now know that our closest neighbor, Proxima Centauri, is It hosts at least two planets. But we’re not sure if there are any planets near Alpha Centauri, a binary system just beyond that. However, if they were there, we now know … Read more
The space station will join Russia’s Mir and NASA’s Skylab fragments in the uninhabited South Pacific, which are home to more than 263 pieces of deliberately sunken space debris. The space station’s eventual fate has been part of the plan since before the units were ever launched. But when you remove the space station from … Read more
The subsoil is not a uniform pile of layers. Deep in the thick middle layer are two enormous thermochemical points. To this day, scientists still don’t know where each of these massive structures came from or why these heights differ, but a new set of geodynamic models have landed on a possible answer to this … Read more
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/Meter Matrix ([{” attribute=””>ALMA) in Chile, researchers at Leiden Observatory in the Netherlands have for the first time detected dimethyl ether in a planet-forming disc. With nine atoms, this is the largest molecule identified in such a disc to date. It is also a precursor of larger organic molecules that can … Read more
Space is important to us and that is why we work to provide the best coverage of the Florida industry and launch. Journalism like this takes time and resources. Please support him by subscribing here. – A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket boosted the company’s latest batch of Starlink’s online satellites into low Earth orbit on … Read more
