By Jessica Barnett
The MAV (Mars Ascent Vehicle) team recently completed wind tunnel testing at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in a facility that has been a critical part of NASA missions going all the way back to the Apollo program.
The…
Category: 2. Space
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Autonomous Systems Help NASA’s Perseverance Do More Science on Mars
A computer pilot helps NASA’s six-wheeled geologist as it searches for rock samples that could be brought to Earth for deeper investigation.
In about a third of the time it would have taken other NASA Mars rovers, Perseverance recently…
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NASA Releases Independent Review’s Mars Sample Return Report
The agency established the board in May 2023 to evaluate the technical, cost, and schedule plans prior to confirmation of the mission’s design.
An Independent Review Board (IRB) looked at NASA’s current plans and goals of the first mission…
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NASA’s Curiosity Reaches Mars Ridge Where Water Left Debris Pileup
Believed to be a remnant of powerful ancient debris flows, Gediz Vallis Ridge is a destination long sought by the rover’s science team.
Three billion years ago, amid one of the last wet periods on Mars, powerful debris flows carried mud and…
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NASA’s Oxygen-Generating Experiment MOXIE Completes Mars Mission
Riding with the Perseverance rover, the instrument has proved to be a viable technology for astronauts on Mars to produce oxygen for fuel and breathing.
Riding with the Perseverance rover, the instrument has proved to be a viable technology for…
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NASA, Partners Study Ancient Life in Australia to Inform Mars Search
NASA’s Mars Exploration Program leaders joined their counterparts from the Australian Space Agency, ESA, and the Australian Commonwealth Scientific and CSIRO on a field expedition to visit some of the oldest convincing evidence of life on…
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A “Jupiter” Hotter than the Sun – Space & Physics | Weizmann Wonder Wander
The search for exoplanets – planets that orbit stars located beyond the borders of our solar system – is a hot topic in astrophysics. Of the various types of exoplanets, one is hot in the literal sense: hot Jupiters, a class of exoplanets…
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Watch NASA Engineers Put a Mars Lander’s Legs to the Test
Sturdy legs are needed to absorb the impact of the heaviest spacecraft to ever touch down on the Red Planet.
Sturdy legs are needed to absorb the impact of the heaviest spacecraft to ever touch down on the Red Planet.
NASA’s Perseverance rover…
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Study weighs distant supermassive black holes
Near the centre of the Milky Way Galaxy sits an immense “supermassive” black hole that astronomers call Sagittarius A*.
Scientists theorise that the black hole grew in tandem with our galaxy, and suspect that similar phenomena are at the heart…
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Tracking the Winds of Climate Change – Environment | Weizmann Wonder Wander
In the tropics, above the equatorial rainforests and oceans, the strong solar radiation hitting Earth propels a stream of warm, moist air far upward. Once reaching the upper atmosphere, this stream moves in both hemispheres toward the poles; it…
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