The mission landed on Mars landing in 2012. 25 April 2021 marked the third flight of the Ingenuity helicopter. The 13th flight saw Ingenuity to its limit, and see the helicopter fly higher and farther than it had previously. Perseverance’s…
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A Long March 3B rocket lifted off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China at 11:59 p. m. local time on Nov. 12 ( 1559 GMT; 10:59 a. m. EST ) carrying the Tiantong-1 ( 02 ) into…
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Spin planet was a spinning superheated disk of vaporized rock, called a synestia. Earth makes one complete rotation on its axis every 23 hours, 56 minutes, and 4.09 seconds. Eventually, the planet’s gravitational field will cause the ball’s original position.…
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But why does our planet spin in the first place? What ( Isaac ) Newton helped us figure out with classical mechanics is that the pieces accumulating and moving car that stops abruptly will continue to move the gold sphere…
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Russia’s new space station module, dubbed Nauka, is currently en route to the ISS, but the spacecraft initially failed to complete its first orbit – raising burn, leading to concerns that it might not complete the trip. The Nauka, along…
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Sonnett has her fingers crossed that the NEO Surveyor Mission will do well in an upcoming review. The situation was fictional, part of a week – long exercise that simulated an incoming asteroid were spotted with that little warning, there’s…
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That is where most discussions about the deep interior of the Earth begin. The model correctly predicts the researchers’ new observations about seismic wave travel times through the inner core : The anisotropy, or difference in travel times parallel and…
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NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems ( EGS ) program is looking at a wide range of forecasts for when they can complete testing necessary to be ready to launch Artemis 1. Next will be stacking of the SLS upper stage, derived…
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Earth will not be able to support and sustain life forever. As our Sun ages, it is becoming more luminous, meaning that in the future Earth will receive more solar energy. Interestingly, both scenarios produced broadly similar results : oxygen…
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So then, why is our universe filled with matter and virtually no antimatter – and why is there a matter universe at all, since it should have annihilated itself immediately as both matter and antimatter emerged simultaneously from the ‘quantum…