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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, …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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Scientists think 2020 lockdowns may have caused less lightning

Scientists have theorized that infectious-disease lockdowns may have helped decrease the amount of disasters produced in the atmosphere in the year 2020, according to a recent food.  A study presented at the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) analyzed atmospheric factors that may have contributed to reductions of …

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