Europa Clipper science instruments
The spacecraft carries nine science instruments and a gravity experiment that uses the orbiter’s telecommunications system.
NASA Live and TV change
NASA has announced that their NASA TV is about to change. I’ve summarized here some brief info.
8 Things to Know About NASA’s Mission to an Ocean
The first NASA spacecraft dedicated to studying an ocean world beyond Earth, Europa Clipper aims to find out if the ice-encased moon Europa could be habitable. NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft, the largest the agency has ever built for a planetary mission, will travel 1.8 billion miles (2.9 billion kilometers) from the agency’s Kennedy Space Center…
NASA Scientists Re-Create Mars ‘Spiders’ in a Lab for First Time
Since discovering them in 2003 via images from orbiters, scientists have marveled at spider-like shapes sprawled across the southern hemisphere of Mars.
NASA’s Perseverance Rover Scientists Find Intriguing Mars Rock
In one scenario the Perseverance science team is considering, Cheyava Falls was initially deposited as mud with organic compounds mixed in that eventually cemented into rock. Later, a second episode of fluid flow penetrated fissures in the rock, enabling mineral deposits that created the large white calcium sulfate veins seen today and resulting in the…
Chang’e 6 brought rocks from the far side of the
China achieved a historic feat by bringing back the first-ever sample from the lunar far side in June 2024. It’s moon lander, Chang’e 6, used a robotic scoop and drill to collect approximately 5 pounds (2 kilograms) of rocks and soil. These samples came back to Earth on June 25, 2024. Chang’e 6 built off…
The brief history of artificial intelligence: the world has changed
Despite their brief history, computers and AI have fundamentally changed what we see, what we know, and what we do. Little is as important for the world’s future and our own lives as how this history continues.To see what the future might look like, it is often helpful to study our history. This is what…
Danish Instrument Helps NASA’s Juno Spacecraft See Radiation
“Every quarter-second, the ASC takes an image of the stars,” said Juno scientist John Leif Jørgensen of the Technical University of Denmark. “Very energetic electrons that penetrate its shielding leave a telltale signature in our images that looks like the trail of a firefly. The instrument is programmed to count the number of these fireflies,…