NASA has surpassed a ‘major milestone’ on its last mission to Mars, as the space agency was able to successfully attach the helicopter to the Perseverance rover, known as Ingenuity. The six lithium-ion batteries that support Ingenuity and were charged on August 7, NASA said in a statement. It took …
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“Auroral beads” imprisoned in Finland in October 2014 just for a strong display of aurora. Jamie Carter Next time you are waiting for the aurora borealis or northern lights to arrive – perhaps in Alaska, northern Canada, Iceland, northern Norway, Finland or Sweden – look out for “auroral beads”, because …
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An asteroid with cars made just the closest known approach to Earth, without actually colliding with the planet. And investigators did not even know it for hours until hours after it was already over. Asteroid 2020 QG, formerly known as ZTFoDxQ, zooms past Earth on Sunday at 12:08 pm EDT, …
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A space rock gave the earth a close shave Sunday. getty No one saw small asteroids 2020QG arrive, but it passed through our planet as close as anything we ever saw could go on. According to NASA’s database of objects in the Earth’s orbit, the space rock with cars flew …
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NASA is actively monitoring an early anomaly in the Earth’s magnetic field: a gigantic region with lower magnetic intensity in the skies above the planet, which extends between South America and southwest Africa. This large, evolving phenomenon, called the South Atlantic Anomaly, has intrigued and troubled scientists for years, and …
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