Category: Planetary Science
Both Artemis mobile launchers see action
Credit: CC0 Public Domain NASA’s Artemis program has one tower standing and one just getting started. Mobile launcher 1 (ML-1), which endured some significant damage after its use on the…
Indian lunar lander splits from propulsion module in key step
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain India’s latest space mission completed a key step in the country’s second attempt at a lunar landing, with its Moon module separating from its propulsion section…
XRISM spacecraft will open new window on the X-ray cosmos
This artist’s concept shows a face-on view of the XRISM (X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission) spacecraft. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab The upcoming XRISM (X-ray Imaging and…
Could puncturing a satellite’s battery help it deorbit faster?
Visual depiction of Kessler syndrome. Credit: NASA Orbital Debris Program Office A few years ago, there was a panic about lithium-ion batteries that exploded and could do things like take…
Searching for the universe’s missing teenage pictures
A line intensity image appears smeared compared to traditional galaxy survey images. Credit: Patrick Breysse Astrophysicists can use measurements of the cosmic microwave background, radiation formed 380,000 years after the…
Mars once had wet-dry climate conducive to supporting life: Study
An image taken by the Curiosity rover showing the hexagonal cracked mud in a Martian crater that was once a vast lake. NASA’s Curiosity rover has discovered the first evidence…
Hundred-year storms? That’s how long they last on Saturn
In the optical, Saturn’s banded atmosphere appears to smoothly shift from color to color. But seen here in radio light — VLA data overlays a Cassini image of Saturn —…
Hubble captures lenticular galaxy NGC 6684
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. Tully The lenticular galaxy NGC 6684 bathes this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope in a pale light. Captured with Hubble’s Advanced Camera for…
A novel method uses gravity data to determine where density anomalies lie inside planetary bodies
Researchers are developing a new technique to help visualize the complex internal layering and anomalous structures inside planetary bodies, including the Moon. Credit: NGC 54/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0 Getting to…
