The Independent covers the poignant final hours of China’s Jade Rabbit lunar rover as the rolling robot bids a sad farewell to the folks back home:
…Jade Rabbit – named after a mythological rabbit that lives on the Moon – has managed to write its own, sentimental farewell through China’s state-run news agency Xinhua:
“Although I should’ve gone to bed [...]
She’s European. And she’s making all kinds of friends on the Twitter:
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Bonjour, dinja!
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Ahoj, sv?te!
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Universe Today is showing off NASA snapshops of China’s Chang’e3 lunar lander and Yutu lunar rover:
According to School of Earth and Space Exploration professor Mark Robinson’s description on Arizona State University’s LROC blog:
The rover is only about 150 cm wide, yet it shows up in the NAC images for two reasons: the solar panels are very effective at [...]
SEN reveals the poetic way we’re planning to keep tomorrow’s satellites from turning into space junk:
In low orbits, there is still sufficient atmosphere to generate the needed drag thanks to the large sail size. Even with the sail, it could take up to 25 years for the satellite to reenter and disintegrate, but to deorbit in the same [...]
Reuters reports on an innovative response to a space helmet malfunction:
U.S. spacewalks have been suspended since July after a spacesuit helmet worn by Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano filled with water, causing him to nearly drown.
The underlying cause of the leak remains under investigation but engineers have learned enough to make modifications so the problem will not happen again, NASA [...]
Nature has reached the point where they’re worrying about how clean we can keep our ships and rovers, so they don’t track our chemicals all over the Red Planet’s pristine mud:
In 2011, for example, researchers who analysed images from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) spacecraft observed dark streaks a few metres wide that appeared and lengthened at the [...]
Reuters reports on Curiosity’s latest discovery – the dried bed of what was apparently once a mucky, life-filled lake on Mars:
The lake, located inside Gale Crater where the rover landed in August 2012, likely covered an area 31 miles long and 3 miles wide, though its size varied over time.
Analysis of sedimentary deposits gathered by NASA’s Mars rover [...]
International Business Times hints at what the first commercial satellite means for the future of space:
After two failed launch attempts due to technical glitches last week, the 22-story Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 5:41 p.m. EST. The rocket carried a 7,000-pound communications satellite called “SES-8,” owned by Luxembourg-based SES S.A., [...]
Washington Post reflects on the future of space exploration. Rather than the will of a great nation, today it takes a determined billionaire to send a man to Mars:
Billionaire Dennis Tito, tired of being told that we can’t send humans to Mars just yet, on Wednesday revealed his scheme for launching two astronauts to the red planet as early [...]
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