Space Harvest .. 8 achievements of scientists in 2018

The year 2018 has been marked by many technical and technological advances, especially in space: scientists are striving to accomplish many achievements, ranging from sending China to the dark side of the moon and even NASA's efforts on Mars.

On August 12, NASA launched the SolarParker probe, the first sun-sun probe to study the surrounding halo, called the solar corona, intended to penetrate the atmosphere.

Outside the sun, uninhabited by any human being, and withstands temperatures up to 1370 ° C.

Since its arrival, the space probe has sent many images that help scientists understand the nature of the sun and learn many secrets that had never been discovered before.

The task of finding other TESS planets

TESS

The Exoplanet satellite, or TESS, was launched on April 18 to search for the signs of the brightest planets in the sky. TESS has already detected at least two new planets, one of which may be saturated with water .

Kepler end

Kepler

The Kepler telescope stopped working because of the exhaustion of its fuel before November, having been launched in 2009 to search for planets orbiting other stars, allowing to discover thousands of new worlds, some of which could offer the conditions of life. Milky Way.

NASA defined the seismic scale on Mars on December 19, marking the first time that a seismic measurement was being placed on another planet.

Said the project manager InSight"The Insight calendar for activities on Mars is better than expected, and getting a seismic scale on Earth safely is an excellent birthday present," said Tom Hoffman, who works at the Propulsion Lab from NASA in Pasadena, California.

NASA-based sensors were able to record the "Voice of Mars," the first event in history since the beginning of the human invasion of the Red Planet, where NASA posted a video on Twitter. Includes a sound recording of the wind on the surface of Mars Red Planet.

According to the site Engadget A sound recording of wind sounds was recorded on Mars, which was recorded by the atmospheric pressure sensor developed in Britain, while the probe detected a low noise of "rumble" or "squeaking" caused by vibrations caused by the air on Mars.

A team of astronomers has discovered what is most distant in our solar system: FaroutAs this distant object is so far apart that experts estimate that it takes more than 1,000 years to cycle around the sun.

According to the site Metro British, in terms of distance from the Earth, this body is moving away from us by about 120 astronomical units (UA), Which is a unit measured by the distance between the planets and the sun, which is equal to the average distance from the Earth to the sun, which is equal to 149,597,870,691 km specifically, which means that this body separates us about 18 billion kilometers, noting that Pluto is at 34 planets on the Only Astronomical Planet.

Khalifa Sat was launched in October: it is the first United Arab Emirates satellite, manufactured entirely by UAE engineers and specifically designed for Earth observation and rescue operations. worldwide.

China sent a probe on the far side of the moon. The trip lasted about 110 hours, until Chang-4 reached an orbit 80 miles above the surface, in order to explore the huge fission of the moon by collecting rocks never seen before.