Ganymede is Jupiter's largest moon and the ninth largest object in our solar system. This moon is even bigger than the planet Mercury. The last time we had good close-up images was of the Galileo mission to Jupiter in the late 1990s. Those images provided a detailed look at much …
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NASA’s most sophisticated rover has yet to launch into Mars on a mission to answer one of the deeper questions: did life arise on another planet? Mission controllers have set their sights on the 28-mile-wide (45 km) Jezero crater north of the planet’s equator. The landing site is one of …
Read More »Photo: Denis Charlet (fake pictures) The Federal Communications Commission gave Amazon go-ahead on Thursday for its ambitious Kuiper project, which would put 3,236 broadband satellites in orbit to transmit Internet coverage down to earth. With this regulatory milestone assured, Amazon posed to join SpaceX in the race to be the …
Read More »Photo: Denis Charlet (fake pictures) The Federal Communications Commission gave Amazon go-ahead on Thursday for its ambitious Kuiper project, which would put 3,236 broadband satellites in orbit to transmit Internet coverage down to earth. With this regulatory milestone assured, Amazon posed to join SpaceX in the race to be the …
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The multitude of moons that orbit the planets of our solar system represent the incredible diversity of celestial bodies that inhabit this small corner of the universe. The satellites that call this cosmic neighborhood home come in all iterations, from oblong, dented, and lumpy, to smooth as marble, multi-crater, and …
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