NASA’s Mars rover trains for “seven minutes of terror.”
BBC shares a video showing how February’s Perseverance Mars rover mission plans to start with an automated landing sequence engineers have dubbed “the seven minutes […]
BBC shares a video showing how February’s Perseverance Mars rover mission plans to start with an automated landing sequence engineers have dubbed “the seven minutes […]
Reuters reports on the success of the Hayabusa2 mission. The spacecraft, gone for six years, has finally come home with stuff scooped from an asteroid… […]
SONG: “Six Seconds” [Download] ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on Science News, 21 Oct 2020, “NASA’s OSIRIS-REx survived its risky mission to grab a piece of […]
Science News celebrates a long-shot success in space, as NASA’s OSIRIS-REx probe is steered close enough to the asteroid Bennu to grab a piece to […]
A space telescope inside a space shuttle, from the STS-67 mission. The mission summary, from archive.org, is: The Space Shuttle Endeavor, scheduled to launch March […]
In some ways, Cornwall seems to me like Britain’s Florida – a peninsula that juts into the Gulf Stream, with water warm enough that they’ve […]
Click to embiggen A big part of a big rocket, loading onto a big barge in a big facility in Louisiana. As the NASA Michoud […]
SONG: “Satellite of Love” [Download] (a penitential cover). (I also made an .ogg version.) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: This has no scientific source; it’s a penitential […]
Click to embiggen NASA’s Marshall Gallery lists this image as “date unknown,” but since Skylab was crewed from 1973 to 1974, and fell out of […]
Click to embiggen A photo with maybe a little optimism. From NASA’s Image of the Day gallery description: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the […]
Scientific American shows how the dwarf planet at the fringes of our solar system was partially shaped by a cartoonish reaction to a major collision: […]
Science News is following the progress of China’s Chang’e-4 lander and Yutu-2 rover as they discover all sorts of new things about the layers of […]
Click to embiggen Astronauts gotta learn how to astronaut. This is from a NASA document from 1960 called Technical Note D-546: Experience with a Three-Axis […]
Nature shares the wonder of Arrakoth, the object once known as 2014 MU69, in the Kuiper Belt beyond Pluto, the most distant world we’ve studied […]
Click to embiggen vastly This is half of a stereoscopic image of the surface of Mars. The other half is
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