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NASA’s Curiosity Takes Inventory of Key Life Ingredient on Mars
Newly published research quantifies the presence of organic carbon in Martian rocks.
Scientists using data from NASA’s Curiosity rover measured the total organic carbon – a key component in the molecules of life – in Martian rocks for the first time.
“Total organic carbon is one of several…
Starlink RV review: the dawn of space internet to go
June 25, 2022
The problem with going off-grid is the lack of connection.
The urge to get away from it all without losing access to Slack and Instagram was a #vanlife trend long before COVID-19. The pandemic only accelerated it, fueled by social distancing rules, office closures, and…
.An independent assessment team will review possible options for next steps, including estimated costs.
NASA announced Friday the Psyche asteroid mission, the agency’s first mission designed to study a metal-rich asteroid, will not make its planned 2022 launch…
NASA to Discuss Psyche Asteroid Mission
June 24, 2022
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NASA to Discuss Psyche Asteroid Mission
The teleconference will be livestreamed today.
NASA will host a media teleconference at 2 p.m. EDT (11 a.m. PDT) Friday to provide an update on the agency’s mission to study the Psyche asteroid. Audio of the briefing will livestream on the agency’s website.
Teleconference participants include:
Lori Glaze, director…
The map, to be released in batches over six months, covers the vast majority of the planet, revealing dozens of minerals found on its surface.
Scientists are about to get a new look at Mars, thanks to a multicolored 5.6-gigapixel map. Covering 86% of the Red Planet’s…
Striking rock formations documented by the rover provide evidence of a drying climate in the Red Planet’s ancient past.
For the past year, NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has been traveling through a transition zone from a clay-rich region to one filled with a salty…
After three previous aborted attempts, NASA successfully fueled its new massive deep-space rocket, the Space Launch System, for the first time on Monday — completing a critical milestone ahead of the vehicle’s first flight. However, there was a shadow over the achievement. The fueling was part of an elaborate dress rehearsal that ended 20 seconds earlier than NASA had planned, and it’s…
Last January, Lego promised its 90th anniversary would be one to remember: the company agreed to revive one of its classic Lego themes (like Space, Castle, and Pirates) with a new, adult-grade Lego set.
But it turns out we’re not just getting one nostalgia bomb today —…
On Friday, SpaceX fired a group of employees involved in crafting an open letter to corporate leaders that criticized CEO Elon Musk — and labor lawyers now say the firings may have violated US labor law. The letter circulated Thursday calling for stronger anti-harassment…
It took less than a day and a half for more than 400 SpaceX employees to sign onto an open letter criticizing CEO Elon Musk after it was posted and shared by some of their co-workers in an internal chat. Just 32 hours after it was shared, the internal landing page for the document was taken offline, around the same time that a group of employees was fired for their involvement in crafting and…
