[ad_1] NASA’s Mars 2020 mission is approaching its landing date, which should be in a few weeks. The mission, which includes the Perseverance rover as well as the Mars Ingenuity helicopter, depends on a successful landing which is largely out of the hands of NASA at the moment. The landing sequence is mostly automated, so … Read more
[ad_1] Around the world, the rate of ice melt is accelerating with climate change, on land and in water, in the northern hemisphere and southern hemisphere. Since 1994, satellite images have revealed that more than 28 trillion tonnes of ice have melted in Greenland and Antarctica, as well as in the Arctic and Southern Oceans. … Read more
[ad_1] NASA will conduct a second hot fire test for the center stage of the space launch system rocket starting in the fourth week of February. It will be part of the rocket’s Green Run series of tests to assess the main phase and ensure it is ready for the Artemis I mission, which will … Read more
[ad_1] The FAA has also issued flight restrictions over SpaceX’s South Texas facility, citing “space operations” in the region. Temporary flight restrictions are in effect between 2:00 p.m. and 11:59 p.m. GMT (8:00 a.m. and 5:59 p.m. CST) Thursday and Friday. Residents of Boca Chica village were also ordered to evacuate today, according to Mary, … Read more
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[ad_1] Last spring, blackbirds living on an Illinois tree plantation sat on unusual eggs. Beside the usual bright blue ovoids they had set were objects of unusual shape. Although they were the same color, some were long and thin, stretched into tablets. Others were decidedly sharp – so angular, in fact, that they didn’t look … Read more
[ad_1] WASHINGTON – NASA is considering changing the orbit of one of its oldest spacecraft to Mars, an initiative meant to support the Mars 2020 mission after landing but which could affect both its science and the support of other missions. NASA launched the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) in 2005 with a suite of six … Read more
[ad_1] This week, the alignment of our planet Earth, our moon, and our neighboring Sun created a Full Moon which we call a “Wolf Moon”. This is just the first in a line of full moons that will appear to us as humans over the next 11 months, and we have the lot listed. In … Read more
[ad_1] By Leilani Chavez Knowledge of the Philippine pangolin, the country’s only pangolin species, is limited. Observations of the animal are even rarer. But unlike other pangolin species around the world that are on the brink of extinction, a new study suggests that with the right conservation measures, the endemic Philippine pangolin still has a … Read more
[ad_1] NASA will make another attempt next month to test firing of its massive Space Launch System rocket after its first test was halted, the agency said Friday evening. The rocket’s 212-foot-high center stage will attempt to ignite its four engines for eight minutes at NASA’s Stennis Space Center in Mississippi. This attempt is the … Read more