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NASA perseverance plans next sample attempt – NASA planetary science

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[ad_1] NASA persistence plans call for next sampling attemptNASA Planetary Sciences Mars helicopter completes 12th flight, delivers important scienceWDIV ClickOnDetroit Chinese Rover completes 90-day main mission, but science still needs to be doneUniverse today My Favorite Martian Image: Helicopter Sees Future Rover Road Potential – NASA’s Mars Exploration ProgramExploration of Mars by NASA NASA rover’s … Read more

NASA and SpaceX launch to the International Space Station – NASA

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[ad_1] Launch of NASA and SpaceX to the International Space StationNasa Liquid oxygen shortage chokes SpaceX launch plansNews SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket fires for first time in nine weeksTeslarati SpaceX tests rocket ahead of space station cargo mission – Spaceflight NowSpace flight now All future Starlink satellites will have laser linksNews See full coverage on … Read more

Manned mission to Mars is viable if it does not exceed four years, concludes international research team

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[ad_1] Yuri Shprits, a research geophysicist at UCLA, said limiting the length of a round trip to the Red Planet would help reduce the amount of dangerous radiation to which astronauts are exposed. Credit: NASA Sending human travelers to Mars would force scientists and engineers to overcome a series of technological and security hurdles. One … Read more

Intriguing fossil reptile offers clues to the origin of snakes and lizards

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[ad_1] Twenty years after its discovery in Argentina, the 231.4 million year old Lepidosaur fossil has been described in detail by paleontologists. This animal has characteristics that place it before the split between lizards, snakes and sphenodonts (a branch of reptiles that today only includes the strange tuatara). The fossilized skull recently underwent a CT … Read more

Massive iceberg narrowly avoided collision with Antarctic sea ice

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[ad_1] A massive iceberg that broke away from Antarctica last year recently flipped over and narrowly avoided colliding with the Brunt Ice Shelf. Such a crash could have caused the rupture of a new, even more massive iceberg. Iceberg A-74, which is more than 20 times the size of Manhattan, separated from the Antarctic Brunt … Read more

Engineers create double layer of borophene for the first time

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[ad_1] The illustration shows the atomic structure of double-layer borophene. In this picture, all of the atoms are boron, with the pink boron atoms being specifically involved in the bond between the layers. Credit: Northwestern University For the first time, engineers at Northwestern University have created a double layer of atomically flat borophene, a feat … Read more

Oort Cloud news: How many comets from elsewhere?

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[ad_1] Comet Borisov, spotted in 2019, was a visitor from another solar system. It is the 2nd known interstellar object and the 1st known interstellar comet. But could there be billions of additional interstellar comets in the Oort Cloud? Image via NASA / ESA / D. Jewitt (UCLA). News from the Oort Cloud Astronomers imagine … Read more

SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket fires for first time in nine weeks

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[ad_1] For the first time in more than nine weeks, SpaceX performed a routine preflight test of the Falcon 9 known as static fire and verified that the rocket is ready for launch later this week. With the exception of at least one completed booster qualification test at SpaceX’s development facility in McGregor, Texas, the … Read more

Clarification of the nature of rapid radio bursts

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[ad_1] Westerbork satellite dishes (left) detected a rapid, periodic radio burst in the high-frequency blue radio sky. Time has passed, the stable background stars have turned into trails. It was not until much later that the same source emitted low frequency red radio in the sky. The LOFAR telescope (right) has now detected them for … Read more