February 19th, 2022
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China’s Yutu-2 Moon rover has discovered two macroscopic translucent glass globules during its far side exploring. According to a study published in Science Bulletin, the Yutu-2 rover captured images of two translucent globules using its panoramic camera. Lead author of the research paper is Zhiyong Xiao of the Planetary Environmental and Astrobiological Research Laboratory, […]
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Here’s a challenge. What inventive methods might work to help analyze and interpret data than can better understand the potential signs of past life on Mars? That is the focus of a $30,000 prize purse, a crowdsourcing competition on behalf of NASA. DrivenData, in collaboration with HeroX, announced today this unique challenge, and you’re invited […]
A newly created petition is now making the rounds on Twitter, calling for the American government to release all unclassified Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) videos to the public. Initiated on February 10 by Adam Goldsack of the United Kingdom, the petition is hosted on the Change.org website. “The radical ‘transmedium’ technology of unidentified aerial […]
A new report examines planned cislunar and lunar missions over the next decade from countries around the world. This compilation showcases the growth of satellites, rovers, and experiments intended to extend humanity’s reach more firmly into cislunar space and on the Moon. The report — Fly Me to the Moon: Worldwide Cislunar and Lunar Missions […]
An inventive, web-based tool has been created to portray space situational awareness data, to help promote strategic stability in the space domain. Called the Satellite Dashboard, its intent is to better appreciate potentially threatening actions in space. “Our hope is that policymakers, space experts, commercial industry, and the media will be able to use the […]
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover at Gale Crater is now performing Sol 3388 duties. “Curiosity is advancing westward through a largely boulder-strewn channel that is leading us toward the Greenheugh Pediment,” reports Scott Guzewich, an atmospheric scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. The Pediment is where the rover will spend the next […]
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover at Gale Crater is now performing Sol 3387 duties. Sean Czarnecki, a planetary geologist at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona reports that on Valentine’s Day, Curiosity was slated to carry out a full workload with Chemistry and Camera (ChemCam) Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) and the Alpha Particle X-Ray Spectrometer […]
The international scientific community has long been discussing the need to keep the farside of the Moon free from human-made radio frequency intrusion. What’s at issue? The lunar farside always faces away from Earth. Consequently it is “radio-quiet,” shielded by the moon itself from radio-frequency interference (RFI) crackling through space, pumped out by powerful […]
Jared Isaacman, founder and CEO of Shift4, announced today the Polaris Program, a first-of-its-kind effort to rapidly advance human spaceflight capabilities. An American billionaire businessman, Isaacman was the commander of the SpaceX flight Inspiration4 in September 2021. No earlier than the fourth quarter of 2022, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket will launch the Polaris Dawn mission […]
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover at Gale Crater is now wrapping up Sol 3385 tasks. New imagery shows the surroundings being explored by the robot:
