NASA Mars mission discovers key to teamwork
PhysOrg reports on a discovery from NASA researchers looking not at astronomy nor engineering, but on key factors that let teams communicate with a gap […]
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Science Art: Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky, by David K. Stone.
I found the image in the San Diego Air & Space Museum’s “Aerophilately Special Collection” on Flickr; this is actually a detail from the full […]
A new (easier) way to detect alien life.
Mashable reports on astrobiology research that may have found a simpler (and, importantly, more portable) way to detect traces of life on alien planets … […]
Science Art: Mars – Cloudy North Polar Cap, by Andrea Luck
Really, I guess the full title of this should be: Mars – Cloudy North Polar Cap – CNSA Tianwen-1. “CNSA” is the China National Space […]
The Carroll Crater
Mashable is one of the outlets that reported on the naming of a newly identified lunar crater by the astronauts of the Artemis mission… one […]
Science Art: Earth-moon Relationship MSC, HOUSTON, TX
This is a line drawing of the Apollo mission’s lunar module reaching the Moon, staying a while, and then coming back home. It’s a few […]
Science Art: OSIRIS-REx after SRC release, 2023
This is a still from an animation showing what a larger spaceship does after firing a small capsule toward Earth. The capsule is filled with […]
Life that can survive a full-on asteroid impact.
Mashable discusses the discovery at Johns Hopkins of microbes that are hardy enough to have traveled across the vacuum of space and then survived the […]
Science Art: Curiosity Approaching Mars, Artist’s Concept, 2012
Is it strange how much this resembles a 1950s comic-book cover about dashing flying saucer pilots? And we made it real, and we sent it […]
SONG: Nine Lives to Rigel Five (a penitential Game Theory cover)
SONG: “Nine Lives to Rigel Five (a penitential Game Theory cover)”. (OGG version here.) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: This is not based on scientific research; it’s […]
Science Art: Noordung’s Space Station Habitat Wheel, 1929
Here’s a space station from before the first rocket left Earth’s atmosphere. The description from DVIDS (Defense Visual Information Distribution Service) Hub, where I found […]
“Brain coral terrain” tells a story of Martian history.
The Planetary Science Institute reports on what space missions have learned from studying a strange, sinuous series of formations on the surface of Mars that […]
Science Art: First missile launched at Cape Canaveral, July 24, 1950.
A photo from the San Diego Air and Space Museum’s collection of Images from NASA/Cape Canaveral. Here are a couple of quotes from a recent […]
Science Art: Detail from Tinsley Laboratories ad, 1966.
That’s a closeup of the Surveyor-1 satellite printed above an image of the Gemini orbital capsule, with the words “WE GAVE” (image of Surveyor-1) “a […]
Honda has entered Space Race 2.0
The Verge reports on a new competitor to Blue Origin, SpaceX, and Virgin Galactic in the reusable rocket game – one with a slightly longer […]