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Signs of Life on Mars? NASA’s Perseverance Rover Begins the Hunt
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After testing a bristling array of instruments on its robotic arm, NASA’s latest Mars rover gets down to business: probing rocks and dust for evidence of past life.
NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover has begun its search for…
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NASA Study Finds Tropical Forests’ Ability to Absorb Carbon Dioxide Is Waning
The finding comes out of an effort to map where vegetation is emitting and soaking up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
Earth’s trees and plants…
Jon Stewart shared a video promoting his upcoming Apple TV Plus show, The Problem with Jon Stewart, and it’s an odd one: the three-minute and ten-second clip shared on Twitter is a comedy skit roasting the recent billionaire space race, starring Jason Alexander as Jeff…
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NASA to Brief Early Science From Perseverance Mars Rover
Panelists will discuss the rover’s recently started science campaign and groundwork for its next major milestone.
NASA will hold a virtual media briefing at 1 p.m. EDT (10 a.m. PDT) Wednesday, July 21, to discuss early science results from the agency’s Perseverance Mars rover and its…
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NASA’s Juno Tunes Into Jovian Radio Triggered by Jupiter’s Volcanic Moon Io
The Juno Waves instrument “listened” to the radio emissions from Jupiter’s immense magnetic field to find their precise locations.
By listening…
NASA Tracks Heat Wave Over US Southwest
July 16, 2021
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NASA Tracks Heat Wave Over US Southwest
While one science instrument mapped the dome of high pressure that settled over the southwestern U.S. in early July, another captured ground surface temperatures.
Just weeks after the Pacific…
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Ride With Juno As It Flies Past the Solar System’s Biggest Moon and Jupiter
The probe flew closer to Jupiter’s largest moon, Ganymede, than any other spacecraft in more than two decades, offering dramatic glimpses of both the icy orb and the gas giant.
On June 7, 2021, NASA’s Juno spacecraft flew closer to Jupiter’s ice-encrusted moon Ganymede…
The Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday charged embattled space infrastructure startup Momentus Space and its founder, Mikhail Kokorich, with allegedly misleading investors about its propulsion technology and downplaying regulators’ national security concerns…
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NASA Solar Sail Asteroid Mission Readies for Launch on Artemis I
Sailing on sunlight, NEA Scout will capture images of an asteroid for scientific study.
NASA’s Near-Earth Asteroid Scout is tucked…
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A puzzler about the gas giant’s intense northern and southern lights has been deciphered.
Planetary astronomers combined measurements taken by NASA’s Juno spacecraft orbiting Jupiter, with data from ESA’s (the European Space Agency’s) Earth-orbiting XMM-Newton mission, to solve a 40-year-old mystery about the origins of Jupiter’s unusual X-ray auroras. For the first time…
