July 6th, 2024
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The call from the Moon is clear – try and find my water ice. There is the prospect that oodles of water ice could be lurking in the bottom of south polar craters on the Moon. Forgive the cosmic colloquialism but these super-chilly features – “where the Sun don’t shine” – are tagged as permanently […]
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NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover at Gale Crater is now performing a number of duties. Abigail Fraeman, a planetary geologist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, reports that researchers received data from the robot’s Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) Instrument Suite focused on the Mammoth Lakes sample late Monday afternoon of this week. “After chewing over the […]
China’s Shenzhou-18 space station crew has completed its second spacewalk. The China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) stated on Wednesday that Ye Guangfu, Li Cong and Li Guangsu worked together for about 6.5 hours to complete multiple tasks. Co-taikonaut Li Guangsu remained inside the space station. Beijing Aerospace Control Center staff assisted in carrying out spacewalk […]
BOULDER, Colorado – As I get older by the day, you do wonder about the term “shelf life.” Meanwhile, this year, Astronaut Foods is celebrating five decades past when they soft-landed Astronaut Ice Cream into freeze-dried fandom. No refrigeration needed. And a three-year shelf life! Since its launch in 1974, developed alongside NASA, this […]
Earth’s neighboring Moon is far from being a “been there, done that” world even taking into account a dozen Apollo moonwalking visitors between 1969 and 1972. There is now a convergence of reasons to return to the Moon, not only for science, but for economic and security motives, as well as signaling global leadership […]
Initial analyses of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission is rippling through the scientific community. In the early morning hours of September 24, 2023, NASA’s first sample return mission of bits and pieces of asteroid Bennu successfully parachuted into the Department of Defense Dugway Proving Ground in the Utah Test and Training Range, roughly […]
Wait-a-Minute! It turns out – one group’s space junk is another person’s viewing hot spot. The Glamping Collective in North Carolina was on the receiving end last May of leftovers from the SpaceX Dragon Crew-7 mission to the International Space Station. On May 22, a member of the Glamping Collective landscaping crew discovered the […]
Coming to full-stop after a 53-day space sojourn to the Moon and back, China’s Chang’e-6 return capsule stuffed with its cache of lunar specimens parachuted into a pre-selected site within Siziwang Banner in north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. The scientific catch of the day were samples from the unexplored southern mare plain of the Moon’s […]
More information has come to light regarding that hitchhiking mini-rover on China’s Chang’e-6 Moon sampling mission. The little Chang’e-6 rover is named “Jinchan” and weighs roughly 11 pounds (5 kilograms) reports the China ‘N Asia Spaceflight website. Carried by Chang’e-6 to the far side of the Moon, the tiny vehicle rolled into position and […]
New research points to Mars being on the receiving end of basketball-size meteorites – on a near daily basis. An international research group, co-lead by ETH Zurich and Imperial College London, have derived the first estimate of global meteorite impacts on Mars using seismic data. According to the new work, between 280 to 360 meteorites […]
