Perseverance Mars rover marks a year on red planet

Friday marks the first anniversary of air-and-space Perseverance rover’s air-and-space landing.  The rover first touched down in the planet’s Jezero Crater on Feb. 18, 2021. NASA’S PERSEVERANCE ROVER LANDS ON MARS The Mars 2020 mission launched July 30, 2020, from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Since then, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)…

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James Webb Space Telescope takes first images, selfie

The James Webb Space Telescope has taken its first images, including a “selfie.”  A mosaic image with more than 2 billion pixels helped the Webb team to determine that Webb’s Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam) instrument can collect light from air-and-space” target=”_blank”>celestial objects< The result showed 18 randomly organized dots of starlight, which are the product…

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NASA probe captures first images of Venus' surface in visible light

air-and-space Parker Solar Probe has captured its first visible light images of the surface of air-and-space. Using its Wide-Field Imager (WISPR) instrument, Parker imaged the entire air-and-space” target=”_blank”>nightside<, the images show a faint glow, revealing distinctive features of the planet – as well as a halo of oxygen.  NASA ADMINISTRATOR DETAILS MISSIONS TO MOON, MARS,…

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Scientists speak out about how they were ignored, even silenced, when they suggested a lab leak in 2020

Speaking to Fox News, scientists from the U.S., Britain, Germany, Israel and Australia have recounted that it was difficult to publish research about the possibility that the infectious-disease began due to a lab leak, and that they found themselves shunned by other scientists, even when those scientists themselves found the lab-leak theory plausible. “We got…

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NASA's Day of Remembrance honors fallen heroes

air-and-space marked its annual Day of Remembrance – and 55 years since the Apollo 1 tragedy on Thursday.  Each January, the agency pauses to honor members of NASA who died while “furthering the cause of exploration and discovery.”  US COMMITS TO SUPPORT INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION THROUGH 2030 Those honored include the crews of Apollo 1…

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Astronomers spot ‘spooky’ object in ‘our galactic backyard’

Researchers in world-regionssaid they located a “spooky” item about 4,000 light-years away that mysteriously becomes one of the brightest objects in the sky for about one minute every 20 minutes, according to a report. Natasha Hurley-Walker, an astrophysicist from Australia’s Curtin University, International Center for Radio Astronomy Research, said observing its odd bursts of radiation…

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James Webb Space Telescope arrives at orbital home 1 million miles from Earth

The air-and-space” target=”_blank”>James Webb Space Telescope< said that the $10 billion observatory fired its air-and-space for nearly five minutes to complete the final postlaunch course correction to Webb’s trajectory. JAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE TEAM ANNOUNCES DEPLOYMENT OF ALL MIRRORS “This mid-course correction burn inserted Webb toward its final orbit around the second sun-Earth Lagrange point,…

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