TOKYO (AP) – It looks like small pieces of charcoal, but clay samples collected from a planet on Earth by a Japanese spacecraft and returned to Earth were hardly disappointing. The specimens described on Thursday by Japanese space officials are as large as 1 centimeter (0.4 inches) and are hard …
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The next landing of the Perseverance Rover shows NASA animation.GIF: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Gizmodo In just 57 days, NASA’s Perseverance Rover will attempt to land on Mars. Mission controllers say it will become a “seven-minute terror,” as the new depiction shows in dramatic fashion. Produced by NASA’s Jet Propulsion …
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Scientists have released an analysis of meteorite fragments collected after a collision with Earth near an asteroid in 2008. They show that the parent asteroid was giant, and the results suggest that special, water-holding type asteroids may be larger and may have different mineral compositions than previously thought. The study …
Read More »The main phase of NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) at the B-2 test stand at NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi.Image: NASA Engineers from NASA and Boeing have added cryogenic propellants to the main stage of the Space Launch System (SLS), a major goal in the development …
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Scientists are looking for evidence that a large amount of depression can be a part of the gut feeling, organized by microbiome trillions of microorganisms living in and around our bodies, that affect our health and well-being. In a series of studies, researchers are finding that the microbial mangroves in …
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