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 up close. It was observed by the New Horizons… Read the rest “A red snowman, past the orbit of Pluto”
This is half of a stereoscopic image of the surface of Mars. The other half is here, if you want to line them up, one in each eye, and see the Chasma in all its depth and … Read the rest “Science Art: Ophir Chasma, ESP_062483_1755, by the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory HiRise.”
(In all caps because that’s a title, isn’t it?) Science News reports on the work the MAVEN probe is doing mapping the movements of the upper atmosphere of Mars:
… Read the rest “The High Martian Wind”“Looking at how
UCF, the University of Central Florida, is the university closest to the Kennedy Space Center, and has a rivalry with the *other* space-launch city, Houston, that’s… Read the rest “Science Art: UCF Space Game football uniform, 2019”
Space.com has photos and background on B333, an expandable and expansive zero-gravity habitat for the next generation of space explorers. Bottom line is it’s pretty big:
… Read the rest “Billionaire Bigelow’s Big Balloon – inflatable space station is open for visitors.”The space
Nature mourns the apparent loss of India’s first lunar lander, which stopped transmitting as it descended to the Moon’s south pole:
… Read the rest “India’s moon lander went silent minutes before landing.”Mission control at the Indian Space Research
Science News describes how the MASCOT asteroid lander has found the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu oddly devoid of dust:
… Read the rest “A remarkably tidy asteroid.”The asteroid, thought to have formed from the breakup of a larger body
The internet’s “Bad Astronomer” takes to SyFy.com to explain to Elon Musk and everybody else why detonating nuclear bombs on the Martian ice caps would really not be… Read the rest “Phil Plait explains why nuking Mars is a bad idea.”
From the Smithsonian Institutes’ National Air and Space Museum “Eyewitness to Space” collection, paintings from the years when NASA had fine artists… Read the rest “Science Art: Weather Delay, by Ferdinand Warren”
Nature has a quite long piece (and quite sensational headline) on the way Earth’s “evil twin,” Venus, is inspiring a new generation of interplanetary explorers to … Read the rest “Venus is luring Earth explorers again.”
Roy Gjerston was an artist who designed stamps for the US Postal Service and spaceship concept art for General Dynamics. So this stamp, commemorating the Mariner 10 probe… Read the rest “Science Art: Mariner 10 issue of 1975, by Roy Gjerston”
Science Daily has word from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign researchers, who instruct us to look for life on Mars by searching out rock formations that look like fettuccine … Read the rest “The Search for Martian Fettuccine”
A house in space, with a big carport. Spaceport. You get the idea.
From NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center:
… Read the rest “Science Art: Skylab Artist Concept, 1972”This illustration Skylab shows the Apollo capsule,
The Las Cruces Sun News reports that, after years of planning, Richard Branson has finally announced that his space-tourism company is moving all operations from California to southern… Read the rest “Virgin Galactic is heading to New Mexico (at last).”
Nature shares details on NASA’s new International Space Station project – a device that can see CO2 in ways that most satellites can’t:
… Read the rest “Eye in the sky will see how carbon really moves (which should make climate science better).”The US$110-million Orbiting
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