Space

. My Favorite Martian Image: the Ridges of ‘South Séítah’ NASA’s Perseverance rover captures a geologic feature with details that offer clues to the area’s mysterious past. Ask any space explorer, and they’ll have a favorite photograph or two from their mission. For Jorge Núñez, an astrobiologist and planetary…

. Icy ‘Glue’ May Control Pace of Antarctic Ice-Shelf Breakup As the ice-and-snow rubble known as mélange melts in Antarctica’s ice shelves, rifts can grow and icebergs break off even in the brutal cold of winter. Researchers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California and the University of California, Irvine, have discovered an…

. Geared toward improving spacecraft navigation, the technology demonstration operated far longer than planned and broke the stability record for atomic clocks in space. For more than two years, NASA’s Deep Space Atomic Clock has been pushing the timekeeping frontiers in space. On Sept. 18, 2021, its mission came to a successful end. The…