Popular Science shares a postcard of Mars taken up-close and personal by China’s Tianwen-1 probe as it enters orbit around the Red Planet:
… Read the rest “China’s Mars probe is sending back pictures.”The five-ton craft carries an orbiter,
The BBC reports on a new use for space hardware: training computers to count elephant populations from 370 miles overhead to keep them from hurtling into extinction:
… Read the rest “Counting elephants from space: satellite conservation.”The breakthrough could
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 of terror”… Read the rest “NASA’s Mars rover trains for “seven minutes of terror.””
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… that may reveal how life came… Read the rest “After six years, an asteroid sample reaches Earth.”
SONG: “Six Seconds”
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on Science News, 21 Oct 2020, “NASA’s OSIRIS-REx survived its risky mission to grab a piece of an asteroid”… Read the rest “SONG: Six Seconds”
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 take home:
… Read the rest “Our spaceship just grabbed a piece of asteroid.”“The spacecraft did everything
A space telescope inside a space shuttle, from the STS-67 mission.
The mission summary, from archive.org, is:
… Read the rest “Science Art: Astro-2 Observavory in STS-67 Payload Bay, 1995”The Space Shuttle Endeavor, scheduled to launch March 2, 1995 from NASA’s
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 got populations of palm trees… Read the rest “Spaceport Cornwall?”
A big part of a big rocket, loading onto a big barge in a big facility in Louisiana. As the NASA Michoud Assembly Facility image library description says:
… Read the rest “Science Art: Last Test Article for NASA’s SLS Rocket Departs Michoud Assembly Facility, 2019 – by NASA/Jude Guidry.”The last of four
SONG: “Satellite of Love” (a penitential cover). (I also made an .ogg version.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: This has no scientific source; it’s a penitential cover for … Read the rest “SONG: Satellite of Love (penitential cover)”
NASA’s Marshall Gallery lists this image as “date unknown,” but since Skylab was crewed from 1973 to 1974, and fell out of orbit in 1979, I think it’s… Read the rest “Science Art: Russ Arasmith Skylab Artwork, date unknown.”
A photo with maybe a little optimism.
From NASA’s Image of the Day gallery description:
… Read the rest “Science Art: Demo-2 Launch: Setting Forth on a Historic Journey by NASA/Bill Ingalls”A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company’s Crew Dragon spacecraft
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:
… Read the rest “Pluto (probably) got whacked on one side so hard it jiggled on the other, thanks to a (partially) liquid center.”Its elliptical western lobe, the 1,240-mile-long
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 the moon’s farside – the part… Read the rest “China’s rover scoots around the dark side of the moon.”
Astronauts gotta learn how to astronaut.
This is from a NASA document from 1960 called Technical Note D-546: Experience with a Three-Axis Side-Located Controller During… Read the rest “Science Art: Block diagram illustrating the simulator setup and primary tracking task, 1960.”
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