January 2nd, 2020
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China has successfully launched the third Long March-5 rocket, a class of booster tasked for the Chang’e-5 Moon mission in 2020 to bring lunar samples back to Earth. The rocket is scheduled to loft China’s first Mars probe, also in 2020. This third flight of the booster blasted off from the coastal launch center at […]
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover is now wrapping up Sol 2626 tasks. Curiosity science team members have put together a last plan of the decade for the robot, reports Dawn Sumner, a planetary geologist at the University of California, Davis. Sols 2631-2633 have been scripted, “which will be the last 3 martian days before we come […]
China’s Long March-5 booster is being readied for its third flight at the Wenchang Space Launch Center in south China’s Hainan Province. Launch date of the carrier rocket, coded as Long March-5 Y3, appears to be December 27th. The Long March-5 booster is essential for China’s future space station, Moon and Mars exploration plans. In […]
Researchers have found that phosphine is produced by another, less abundant life form: anaerobic organisms, such as bacteria and microbes, that don’t require oxygen to thrive. Therefore, if phosphine is detected from a rocky planet, it would be an unmistakable sign of extraterrestrial life, they report in a paper recently published in the journal Astrobiology. […]
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover is now performing Sol 2623 tasks. Recent imagery from the robot includes these scenic views:
