A 21st century space race is heating up this month as China and the United States launch missions to Mars. China launched its mission to Mars on Thursday in an attempt to become the second country to successfully land on the Red Planet behind the United States. Exactly a week …
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The Hubble Space Telescope has spent the past 30 years orbiting 547 km (340 miles) above Earth. The old satellite has had a couple of problems in the past few years, but amazing photos of our cosmic courtyard have yet to be taken. For example, earlier this month, Hubble flexed …
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NASA plans to launch its last mission to Mars this month, which aims to place the Perseverance rover on the planet’s surface in February 2021. It is the latest attempt to explore a planet that has spanned the popular imagination for centuries. Like the planetary scientist Sarah Stewart Johnson, author …
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A meteorite that was launched from Mars and fell to Earth some 700,000 years ago is now returning to Mars, in what has been described as the “most ambitious” space campaign since Apollo. The rock, known as Sayh al Uhamiyr 008 or SaU 008, was discovered in Oman in 1999 …
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A woman with a rare genetic condition has shared how she wears a mask that looks like a ‘space helmet’ to protect her skin from harmful UV rays, and has not left the house without it in 20 years. At just two years old, Fatima Ghazaoui, 28, from Mohammedia, Morocco, …
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