NASA’s Perseverance rover recently battled a difficult Mars rock nicknamed “Kenmore.” Using powerful tools like a nitrogen gas blaster and a laser-shooting camera, the rover revealed that the rock contained signs of water-rich clay, shiny…
Category: 2. Space
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Lasers, Gas Blasts, and Hidden Water: How Perseverance Cracked Mars’ Stubborn Rock
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Space Force scraps satellite procurement, shifts to more flexible strategy
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Space Force has canceled a competition between Boeing and Northrop Grumman to build a new class of jam-resistant communications satellites, abandoning a traditional procurement approach in favor of a more…
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Impact-induced mixing generated the stratified soils of the Lunar South Pole Aitken Basin
Exogenous materials associated with Mg-pyroxene SPA annulus
The CE-6 soils preserve evidence of a mixing process between localized basalts and exogenic ejecta materials (Supplementary Fig. 7). Mineralogically, the primary constituents of the CE-6…
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Eyes on Venus: Earth’s Weather Satellites Unlock Secrets of the Hottest Planet
The outlook is promising for future long-term monitoring of planets across multiple wavelengths. Infrared imaging data from Japan’s Himawari-8 and Himawari-9 meteorological satellites have been successfully applied to track changes in the…
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