The best meteor shower of the year happens this week. While we get meteor showers all year round, this is the one with the most shooting stars. Go out Tuesday night if you can, because that’s the night when the meteors will mostly fly across the sky. Expect to see …
Read More »Ultraviolet ‘Nightglow’ from Mars’ atmosphere.Image: NASA / MAVEN / Goddard Space Flight Center / CU / LASP New ultra-violet observations of the Red Planet mark complex circulation patterns in the Martian atmosphere, including extremely regular night-glass pulses that are invisible to the unsupported eye. The Martian atmosphere is, when viewed …
Read More »The elongated cloud of Arsia Mons, or AMEC, on Mars. Image: ESA / GCP / UPV / EHU Bilbao Like a clock, a strange cloud has returned far above the Martian surface. This long, thin cloud was seen on July 17 and 19 by the Visual Monitoring Camera (VMC) attached …
Read More »Artist’s concept of the UAE Hope probe.Image: UAE Space Agency The Emirates Hope Mission, scheduled to launch this Friday is the first Arab attempt to reach the Red Planet. This is how the UAE will strive to make history. The Hope, or Al Amal, spacecraft was supposed to launch today …
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