The hottest day on Mars is 20 degrees Celsius at the equator. The night can go up to minus 153. The latter is characterized by strong dust storms. The surface appears to be dry but water is expected to flow to the bottom. Take a look at the day given by the vehicles that landed…
The Red Planet has captured our interest for centuries, and it has been featured extensively in science fiction books and movies. Mars has been the subject of robotic exploration since the 1960s. Since 1965, NASA has been sending missions to explore Mars and sharing images and knowledge about our curious neighbor. Mars is the second…
NASA’s Lucy prepares to launch a Trojan asteroid, a group of asteroids in front of and behind Jupiter. Lucy will be launched from Florida on October 26 on an Atlas V rocket. Lucy will fly in search of extraterrestrial life with a cover inscribed with the words of the Beatles and others. Lucy is targeting…
Taken on mission sol 180 (August 22) this sharp image from a Hazard Camera on the Perseverance rover looks out across a rock strewn floor of Jezero crater on Mars. At 52.5 centimeters (21 inches) in diameter, one of the rover’s steerable front wheels is at lower left in the frame. Near center is a…
The intermittent long eclipses observed while observing the star J1407 astonished astronomers that at first it was thought to be a planet, but when closely observed, the data obtained suggest that it was orbiting like Saturn. This is the first time we know of a planet with rings like Saturn.With a total diameter of about…
While the diameter of our Milky Way is one million light-years, the Andromeda Galaxy is about two million light-years. We have an estimated 10,000 billion stars and more than 600 billion Earth-like planets. There are a trillion stars that are two million light-years across. So how many there look like Earth ??.
Last Sunday, the space station installed a new solar panel. Made by Boeing and brought by SpaceX. After nearly six and a half hours of hard work, the astronauts of the European Space Agency and NASA walked into space and completed the work. The booster for the existing eight panels was fitted. The occupants of…
Hubble Ultra Deep Field is located in the constellation Fornax, southwest of the Sabbath. This part is in the southern hemisphere. Hubble Ultra Deep Field The angular area is only 11 square arc minutes. This is equivalent to looking at a 1mm square at a distance of one meter. The film is based on data…
This is a small flyby made by combining images taken by NASA’s Juno spacecraft.The juno mission has greatly helped us to view and study Jupiter in such a way that it is as colorful as Picasso’s images.
