[ad_1] Applications 29/07/2023 3650 views 53 likes Surpassing scientific expectations and exceeding its planned life in orbit, the Aeolus wind mission has been hailed as one of ESA’s most successful Earth observation missions. And now, its end will go down in history...

[ad_1] Now that's a lot of water.On Friday (July 28), SpaceX conducted the first full-up test of the new deluge system at its Starbase site in South Texas, spraying immense fountains of water up toward and around the facility's orbital launch mount.The company and its...

[ad_1] Though some neutron stars can be detected by the pulses of radiation they emit, the mysterious inner workings of the stars are near impenetrable. Physicists hope to learn more about the nature of these superdense stellar corpses by experimenting with analogous...

[ad_1] The Aeolus Mission Control Team in Germany is now wrapping up after a long week of complex operations. They have done everything they planned in what is a first-of-its-kind assisted reentry. Aeolus – a mission that revolutionised wind profiling – is now out of...

[ad_1] NASA's Juno spacecraft will get closer than ever before to Jupiter’s fiery moon, Io, this weekend.On Sunday (July 30), the solar-powered mission will come within 13,700 miles (22,000 km) of Io's volcanic surface. This Jovian satellite is just slightly larger...

[ad_1] On Dec. 8, 2022, 3h02m17.1s UT, Louisiana amateur astronomer Roy Parish captured this view of Mars grazing the Moon. Processed here to black and white, it is remarkably similar to Thobern Bergman’s rendering of the black-drop effect that he observed during the...

[ad_1] Andreas Mogensen training at NASA Johnson Space Center’s Virtual Reality Laboratory in Texas, USA.   Training for emergencies is crucial everywhere, including on the International Space Station. While astronauts hope they will never have to need those skills,...

[ad_1] It's been a full month since Kelly Haston moved to Mars.As commander of NASA's first CHAPEA (Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog) mission, Haston and her three crewmates volunteered to live for more than a year secluded inside "Mars Dune Alpha," a...

[ad_1] The Perseid meteor shower is expected to appear in the sky this year from August 11 to 13. Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls Of all the astronomical events that can be seen in the night sky, meteor showers are among the most exciting. Standing under a sparkling sky...

[ad_1] Olympus Mons, located at the northwest edge of the Tharsis Montes region on Mars, was appropriately named. Based on readings obtained by the Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter (MOLA), an instrument aboard NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor (MGS), this mountain is the...