The Rollin’ Justin robot in DLR’s planetary surface test environment at the Agency’s German Space Operations Center in Operpfaffenhofen near Munich, used for the Surface Avatar test on 24 July…
Category: Planetary Science
Was Olympus Mons once a giant volcanic island?
Olympus Mons: a volcanic island in the middle of a vanished Martian ocean. Credit: A.Hildenbrand/Geops/CNRS (produced from MOLA public data) Imagine a volcanic island about the size of France and…
A mysterious interstellar radio signal has been blinking on and off every 22 minutes for more than 30 years
The International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research, Author provided Last year, we made an intriguing discovery—a radio signal in space that switched on and off every 18 minutes. Astronomers expect…
Hubble images a starstruck galaxy
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Dalcanton, A. Filippenko The irregular galaxy Arp 263 lurks in the background of this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, but the view is…
In new space race, scientists propose geoarchaeology can aid in preserving space heritage
Side view of the crater Moltke taken from Apollo 10. Credit: Public Domain As a new space race heats up, two researchers from the Kansas Geological Survey at the University…
NASA’s ComPair gamma-ray hunting mission prepares for balloon flight
Team members work on the ComPair balloon instrument before it begins thermal vacuum chamber testing at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. ComPair project manager Regina Caputo (front…
NASA’s Psyche mission enters home stretch before launch
NASA’s Psyche spacecraft is shown in a clean room on June 26 at the Astrotech Space Operations facility near the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Credit: NASA/Frank Michaux Engineers…
