Science and discovery 05/07/2024 1081 views 12 I like this ESA’s Earth Return Orbiter, the first spacecraft to image an object orbiting another planet, has reached a major milestone by returning the first Martian samples to Earth. Today, the critical design review for the spacecraft platform was completed with the cooperation of European industry and … Read more
This infographic shows how much data and how many images NASA’s 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter has collected in its 23-year operation around the Red Planet. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA’s longest-lived Mars robot is about to reach a new milestone on June 30: 100,000 trips around the Red Planet since its launch 23 years ago. During that … Read more
NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has captured new images of the far side of the moon that have revealed the location of a Chinese spacecraft. The images obtained by the LRO on June 7 reveal the position of China’s Chang’e 6 sample return spacecraft, which was parked in the Apollo Basin. This geologically rich region … Read more
Science and exploration 18/06/2024 1195 views 16 holds The hyperactive sunspot region responsible for the beautiful aurorae earlier in May was still very much alive as it moved out of Earth’s field of view. Looking from the far side of the sun, the ESA-led Solar Orbiter mission discovered the same region that produced the largest … Read more
This image from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera shows China’s Chang’e 6 in the Apollo Basin on the far side of the moon on June 7, 2024. The lander is seen as the small cluster of bright pixels in the center of the image. Image is 552 meters wide; the north is up. Credit: NASA/GSFC/Arizona … Read more
NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has gotten its first look at China’s Chang’e 6 spacecraft on the far side of the moon. The Change 6 The lander is flanked by two craters that are similar in size and sits on the edge of a much subtler crater about 50 meters wide, reports Mark Robinson, the … Read more
This article was reviewed according to Science fact checked peer-reviewed publication trusted source proofread OK! ESA Solar Orbiter. Credit: European Space Agency (ESA) × close to ESA Solar Orbiter. Credit: European Space Agency (ESA) Scientists have moved one step closer to identifying the mysterious origins of the ‘slow’ solar wind, using data collected during the … Read more