Mars Science Laboratory: Curiosity Rover
Have you ever had a chance to turn around the Curiosity rover and look around on its wheels, body, arm, mast, etc.?
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by Tiffany Kai · Published December 12, 2024
Have you ever had a chance to turn around the Curiosity rover and look around on its wheels, body, arm, mast, etc.?
This picture is composed of a whopping ten different Hubble images, each filtered to collect light from a specific wavelength or range of wavelengths. It spans Hubble’s sensitivity to light, from ultraviolet through visible light and into the near-infrared spectrum. Capturing such a wide range of wavelengths allows astronomers to study information about many different…
The Perseverance Mars rover is part of NASA’s Mars Exploration Program, a long-term effort of robotic exploration of the Red Planet. A key objective for Perseverance’s mission on Mars is astrobiology, including the search for signs of ancient microbial life.Perseverance is investigating Jezero Crater – a region of Mars where the ancient environment may have…
Unique spacecraft to study Europa, moon of Jupiter. Meet Europa Clipper.
NASA technicians completed loading propellants in the agency’s Europa Clipper spacecraft on Sunday.
The spacecraft carries nine science instruments and a gravity experiment that uses the orbiter’s telecommunications system.
NASA has announced that their NASA TV is about to change. I’ve summarized here some brief info.
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…