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NASA spots 13 regions on Moon for astronaut landing in 2024
Washington : The US space agency has identified 13 candidate landing regions near the lunar south pole, as it prepares to send humans back to the Moon under the Artemis programme in 2024.Each region contains multiple potential landing sites…
NASA, Microchip to develop next-gen spaceflight computing processor
Washington : NASA has selected US-based Microchip Technology to develop a high-performance space flight computing (HPSC) processor that will provide at least 100 times the computational capacity of current spaceflight computers.
The…
Underwater snow on Earth gives clues about Europa’s icy shell
New York : Studying a bizarre underwater snow below ice shelves on Earth can help understand the ice shell Jupiter's moon Europa, according to researchers.Europa is a rocky world about the size of the Earth's moon that is surrounded by a…
NASA asks students to design metal production pipeline on the Moon
Washington : The US space agency has asked university students to design a metal production pipeline on the Moon from extracting metal from lunar minerals to creating structures and tools.
The ability to extract metal and build needed…
NASA’s InSight mission finds Martian equator is dry
New York : Martian equator contains little or no ice, according to a new analysis of seismic data from NASA's Mars InSight mission.The findings, published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, describes the dry conditions in the top…
NASA’s Perseverance rover grabs 12th rock sample on Mars
Washington : NASA's Perseverance rover has grabbed one more sample from Mars, taking the total number of collection to 12.The car-sized Perseverance drilled out and sealed up its 12th rock sample this week, mission team members announced…
NASA’s Curiosity celebrates 10th anniversary of landing on Mars
New York : US-based space agency NASA's Curiosity rover has hit a milestone as it celebrated the 10th anniversary of its landing on Mars on August 5.Ten years ago, a jetpack lowered NASA's Curiosity rover onto the Red Planet, beginning the…
Webb telescope images colourful Cartwheel Galaxy
Washington : The powerful next-generation James Webb Space Telescope has captured colourful images of Cartwheel Galaxy, located about 500 million light-years away.
Using its powerful infrared cameras, Webb produced a detailed image of…
James Webb telescope likely spots first supernova
Washington : The powerful next-generation James Webb Space Telescope may have likely spotted its first supernova, according to astronomers.According to Mike Engesser of the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI), the object is extremely…
NASA’s LRO finds lunar pits with temperatures suitable for humans
Washington : Scientists analysing data from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft and computer modelling, have discovered shaded locations within pits on the Moon that always hover around a comfortable about 17 Celsius, a…