by rmil2k | Dec 1, 2023 | News
Universe Today recently examined the potential for sending humans to the planet Venus despite its extremely harsh surface conditions. But while a human mission to the clouds of Venus could be feasible given the environmental conditions are much more Earth-like, a...
by rmil2k | Dec 1, 2023 | News
The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission shows us an amazing view of the tropical island of Tutuila, the largest in the American Samoa archipelago in the South Pacific Ocean.Zoom in to explore this image at its full 10 m resolution or click on the circles to learn...
by rmil2k | Dec 1, 2023 | News
NASA has set a provisional launch date of July 2028 for its Dragonfly mission, meant to explore Saturn’s largest moon Titan, with budgetary uncertainty cited as the reason for the project’s one-year delay.The Dragonfly team can now move forward with the next stage of...
by rmil2k | Nov 30, 2023 | News
The light of the M dwarf LHS 3154 scatters off the Neptune-sized planet LHS 3154 b in this artist’s concept. Credit: Penn State University In the annals of planet hunting, astronomers’ latest find is a bit of a head-scratcher: a giant exoplanet tightly orbiting a star...
by rmil2k | Nov 30, 2023 | News
Getting data in from deep space can be difficult. Almost all of our missions that have flown into deep space use the Deep Space Network, a system of transmitters and receivers that already imposes constraints on the amount of data we can transfer from the far reaches...
