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Students With Perseverance Receive Messages From Mars, Courtesy of NASA
The first set of middle-schoolers in the agency’s “You’ve Got Perseverance!” campaign was honored with a message from the Red Planet and a chat with the rover team at JPL.
A group of 20 young students who have shown the character trait that NASA’s Perseverance rover is…
Disney has released a trailer for the Disney Plus exclusive movie Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers, and it seems it’s following in the grand tradition of Space Jam 2 by being squarely targeted toward the age bracket that remembers the characters from late ’80s and early…
Sea Level to Rise up to a Foot by 2050, Interagency Report Finds
February 16, 2022
NASA, NOAA, USGS, and other U.S. government agencies project that the rise in ocean height in the next 30 years could equal the total rise seen over the past 100 years.
Coastal flooding will increase significantly over the next 30 years because of sea level rise…
Testing Rocks on Earth to Help NASA’s Perseverance Work on Mars
February 15, 2022
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Testing Rocks on Earth to Help NASA’s Perseverance Work on Mars
Using carefully selected terrestrial rocks, engineers try to figure out how to work with crumbly rocks like the one the rover encountered on its first sampling attempt.
When NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover tried to collect its first rock core sample last…
A lot more people might be about to start using Rich Communication Services (RCS), the new messaging standard that has had a long and messy rollout, as Google’s Messages app is the new messaging default for newer Samsung devices. While the Galaxy S21 lineup shipped with…
A rocket is still set to slam into the Moon next month — but it may not be from SpaceX after all
February 13, 2022
Last month, an astronomer and space tracking expert made a bit of a splash when he predicted that a piece of an old SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket left in space for the last seven years was going to collide with the Moon this March. But now he’s changing that prediction in a big…
NASA unveils the James Webb Space Telescope’s first images
February 11, 2022
NASA unveiled a mosaic of the first images captured by the revolutionary James Webb Space Telescope, or JWST, today. The image represents the early stages of the telescope’s 18 main mirror segments properly aligning before JWST reaches its full potential.
The image is blurry, but this is actually a good starting point in the long process of adjusting JWST’s mirrors to take ultra-sharp photos…
NASA Telescope Spots Highest-Energy Light Ever Detected From Jupiter
February 11, 2022
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NASA Telescope Spots Highest-Energy Light Ever Detected From Jupiter
The planet’s auroras are known to produce low-energy X-ray light. A new study finally reveals higher-frequency X-rays and explains why they eluded another mission 30…
Samsung just announced its highly anticipated Galaxy S22 lineup, but many who have tried to preorder the new smartphones report that they can’t actually complete their purchases. Many are reporting issues or just a blank screen that seems to load indefinitely at checkout…
How to watch the Samsung Galaxy Unpacked 2022 livestream
February 9, 2022
Samsung is holding a Galaxy Unpacked event this Wednesday, February 9th, at 10AM ET / 7AM PT, where it is expected to reveal the latest flagship Galaxy S22 devices, which may include a proper replacement for the Galaxy Note series that we missed in 2021.
The virtual event will not only go out to viewers as a livestreamed video but will also be broadcast as a metaverse experience using the…
