SONG: Rocks in the Sky
SONG: “Rocks in the Sky”. ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: NASA Press Release, 16 Oct 21, “NASA, ULA Launch Lucy Mission to ‘Fossils’ of Planet Formation,” as […]
SONG: “Rocks in the Sky”. ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: NASA Press Release, 16 Oct 21, “NASA, ULA Launch Lucy Mission to ‘Fossils’ of Planet Formation,” as […]
NASA has launched a probe named Lucy, after the Australopithecus fossil that rewrote the story of human origins. This Lucy’s job is to check out […]
Reuters reports that the Chinese moon mission brought back rock samples that were about a billion years younger than expected – meaning the molten early […]
Welcome to Cleveland, spaceman! This was a training device from what was the Lewis Research Center and is now the John H. Glenn Research Center […]
Discover magazine discusses an unusual problem we haven’t had to face yet. How will Mars colonists handle their first funerals in an environment where human […]
This view of North Africa, the Mediterranean Sea, and the curvature of the Earth was taken by the ISS on May 19, 2012. The station […]
This is a photo taken by the Mars helicopter Ingenuity‘s navigational camera. Although it doesn’t say so in the NASA image gallery where I found […]
Scientific American is looking up at the night sky and wondering if some new legal cases will keep the stars from being blotted out by […]
The European Space Agency is prepping payloads for a Finnish-built satellite made of wood with aluminum rails for launching and meatal “selfie stick” for a […]
BBC reports on a NASA project that’s transporting cute little cephalopods into orbit, launching 128 baby bobtail squid and 5,000 tardigrades to the International Space […]
Scientific American prepares for the launch of a new place in space – the core module of the CSS (China Space Station), which, after 29 […]
Click to embiggen This is a colorful map (literally called a mosaic!) of the area where Perseverance landed, only from a little higher up. You […]
SONG: “Welcome to the Landing” ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on NASA, 5 Mar 2021, Welcome to ‘Octavia E. Butler Landing’”, as used in the Science […]
Click to embiggen NASA named the landing site for the Mars rover mission after science fiction author Octavia E. Butler. As they say on their […]
Science magazine celebrates an unusual media package – pictures, movies, and most of all sounds sent to Earth from the Mars Perseverance rover: But perhaps […]
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