Category: 2. Space
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We could get messages back from spacecraft sent through a wormhole
If you ever happen to fall through a wormhole in space, you won’t be coming back. It will snap shut behind you. But you may have just enough time to send a message to the rest of us from the other side, researchers report in the Nov. 15 Physical Review D. No one has yet…
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Electrons on the Run – Space & Physics | Weizmann Wonder Wander
Will an electron escaping a molecule through a quantum tunnel behave differently depending on the left- or right-handedness of the molecule? Chemists have borrowed the phrases “left-handed” and “right-handed” from anatomy to describe molecules that are characterized by a particular type of asymmetry. To explore the concept of chirality, look at your hands, palms up.…
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NASA Explores a Winter Wonderland on Mars – NASA Mars Exploration
Cube-shaped snow, icy landscapes, and frost are all part of the Red Planet’s coldest season. When winter comes to Mars, the surface is transformed into a truly otherworldly holiday scene. Snow, ice, and frost accompany the season’s sub-zero temperatures. Some of the coldest of these occur at the planet’s poles, where it gets as low…
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NASA Retires InSight Mars Lander Mission After Years of Science
The mission has concluded that the solar-powered lander has run out of energy after more than four years on the Red Planet. Continue Reading News Source: mars.nasa.gov
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NASA’s Perseverance Rover Deposits First Sample on Mars Surface – NASA Mars Exploration
Perseverance Deposits Its First Sample on the Martian Surface: Once the Perseverance team confirmed the first sample tube was on the surface, they positioned the WATSON camera located at the end of the rover’s robotic arm to peer beneath the rover, checking to be sure that the tube hadn’t rolled into the path of the…
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NASA’s Perseverance Rover to Begin Building Martian Sample Depot – NASA Mars Exploration
The 10 sample tubes being dropped on Mars’ surface so they can be studied on Earth in the future carry an amazing diversity of Red Planet geology. In the coming days, NASA’s Perseverance rover is expected to begin building the first sample depot on another world. This will mark a crucial milestone in the NASA-ESA…
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NASA Awards Contract to Maintain Webb Telescope Operations
NASA has selected Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation of Redondo Beach, California, to support the James Webb Space Telescope Phase E – Operations and Sustainment contract. Continue Reading News Source: www.nasa.gov
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NASA’s Big 2022: Historic Moon Mission, Webb Telescope Images, More
2022 is one for the history books as NASA caps off another astronomical year. Continue Reading News Source: www.nasa.gov
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NASA’s Perseverance Rover Gets the Dirt on Mars – NASA Mars Exploration
The mission’s first two samples of regolith – broken rock and dust – could help scientists better understand the Red Planet and engineers prepare for future missions there. NASA’s Perseverance rover snagged two new samples from the Martian surface on Dec. 2 and 6. But unlike the 15 rock cores collected to date, these newest…
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NASA’s Perseverance Rover Investigates Intriguing Martian Bedrock – NASA Mars Exploration
Jezero Crater’s ‘Yori Pass’: This image of “Yori Pass” was taken by one of the Hazard-Avoidance Cameras (Hazcams) on NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover on Nov. 5, 2022, the 609th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech. Download image › Exploring a sediment-rich location in this Mars delta offers tantalizing opportunities for the…