NASA Scientists Re-Create Mars ‘Spiders’ in a Lab for First Time
Since discovering them in 2003 via images from orbiters, scientists have marveled at spider-like shapes sprawled across the southern hemisphere of Mars.
Category: Planetary science
NASA’s Perseverance Rover Scientists Find Intriguing Mars Rock
In one scenario the Perseverance science team is considering, Cheyava Falls was initially deposited as mud with organic compounds mixed in that eventually cemented into rock. Later, a second episode of fluid flow penetrated fissures in the rock, enabling mineral deposits that created the large white calcium sulfate veins seen today and resulting in the…
Chang’e 6 brought rocks from the far side of the
China achieved a historic feat by bringing back the first-ever sample from the lunar far side in June 2024. It’s moon lander, Chang’e 6, used a robotic scoop and drill to collect approximately 5 pounds (2 kilograms) of rocks and soil. These samples came back to Earth on June 25, 2024. Chang’e 6 built off…
Here’s How Curiosity’s Sky Crane Changed the Way NASA Explores
Twelve years ago, NASA landed its six-wheeled science lab using a daring new technology that lowers the rover using a robotic jetpack. NASA’s Curiosity rover mission is celebrating a dozen years on the Red Planet, where the six-wheeled scientist continues to make big discoveries as it inches up the foothills of a Martian mountain. Just…
Sounds on Mars vs Earth
I had been looking for something on the web and fond this nice video. I recommend you to watch it. Some time ago, I wrote an article about the same topic, but here you...
We are getting back to Moon – With Moon Satellite Navigation System
These days we are standing before the next huge step in the Solar System exploration. And this next important step will be returning to the Moon.
How the planetary systems were born
Our solar system began to form about 4.6 billion years ago. Astronomers think small rocky and icy grains within the solar nebula began sticking together, growing into even larger objects. Although the process remains poorly understood, solid objects miles or more across eventually populated the disk. Astronomers call these bodies planetesimals. Within a million years…
Mars, the red planet: Facts and information
Once upon a time, though, wind and water flowed across the red planet. Robotic rovers have found clear evidence that billions of years ago, lakes and rivers of liquid water coursed across the red...
