Category: 2. Space
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NASA’s Perseverance Rover Investigates Geologically Rich Mars Terrain – NASA Mars Exploration
The latest findings provide greater detail on a region of the Red Planet that has a watery past and is yielding promising samples for the NASA-ESA Mars Sample Return campaign. NASA’s Perseverance rover is well into its second science campaign, collecting rock-core samples from features within an area long considered by scientists to be a…
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NASA to Host Briefing on Perseverance Mars Rover Mission Operations
NASA will host a briefing at 11:30 a.m. EDT (8:30 a.m. PDT) on Thursday, Sept. 15, at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California to provide highlights from the first year and a half of the Perseverance rover’s exploration of Mars. Continue Reading News Source: www.nasa.gov
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NASA’s Perseverance Makes New Discoveries in Mars’ Jezero Crater – NASA Mars Exploration
The rover found that Jezero Crater’s floor is made up of volcanic rocks that have interacted with water. Scientists got a surprise when NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover began examining rocks on the floor of Jezero Crater in spring of 2021: Because the crater held a lake billions of years ago, they had expected to find…
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Astronomers have discovered an exoplanet that could be completely covered in water | HeritageDaily
An international team of researchers led by Charles Cadieux, a Ph.D. student at the Université de Montréal and member of the Institute for Research on Exoplanets (iREx), has announced the discovery of TOI-1452 b, an exoplanet orbiting one of two small stars in a binary system located in the Draco constellation about 100 light-years from…
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La NASA invita a la prensa a la primera prueba de defensa planetaria
La misión Prueba de redireccionamiento del asteroide doble (DART, por sus siglas en inglés) de la NASA, la primera en el mundo que pone a prueba una tecnología para defender a la Tierra de posibles peligros de asteroides o cometas, impactará con su objetivo, un asteroide que no supone ninguna amenaza para la Tierra, a…
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Underwater snow gives clues about Europa’s icy shell | HeritageDaily
Below Europa’s thick icy crust is a massive, global ocean where the snow floats upwards onto inverted ice peaks and submerged ravines. The bizarre underwater snow is known to occur below ice shelves on Earth, but a new study shows that the same is likely true for Jupiter’s moon, where it may play a role…
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Telescope reveals images of supermassive black hole at centre of galaxy | HeritageDaily
Astronomers have revealed images of a supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way galaxy using the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), a telescope array consisting of a global network of radio telescopes. The researchers had previously identified stars orbiting an invisible massive object at the very centre of the galaxy, now known as…
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Scientists solve solar secret | HeritageDaily
The further we move away from a heat source, the cooler the air gets. Bizarrely, the same can’t be said for the Sun, but University of Otago scientists may have just explained a key part of why. Study lead Dr Jonathan Squire, of the Department of Physics, says the surface of the Sun starts at…
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Israel Joins the Quantum Computing Club – Space & Physics | Weizmann Wonder Wander
Building a working quantum computer is such a daunting venture that many believe it’s only for tech giants and superpowers, something on a scale beyond Israel’s reach. Prof. Roee Ozeri of the Weizmann Institute of Science begs to differ: “One of the world’s first computers, WEIZAC, was built here in the 1950s, when all Israel…
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Death spiral: a black hole spins on its side | HeritageDaily
Researchers from the University of Turku, Finland, found that the axis of rotation of a black hole in a binary system is tilted more than 40 degrees relative to the axis of stellar orbit. The finding challenges current theoretical models of black hole formation. The observation by the researchers from Tuorla Observatory in Finland is…