According to the Grant County Sheriff's Office, the recovered object appears to be a composite overwrapped pressure vessel, or COPV, belonging to the second stage of the Falcon 9 rocket that launched March 4 from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, ...
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"The magnitude 3.3 and 3.1 temblors originated in a region called Cerberus Fossae, further supporting the idea that this location is seismically active," wrote NASA. The new quakes happened on March 7 and March 18.
On day 37 of its Martian mission (known as "sol 37"), the Perseverance rover zapped a curious, holey rock with a laser 10 times. It wasn't for sport. The laser is part of the rover's SuperCam, which looms atop the car-sized robot like a crow's nest on a ship.
It's one of 13 CubeSats that will launch aboard Artemis I, the first flight of the Artemis program's Space Launch System. Here, inside an anechoic chamber at Ames, quality assurance engineer Austin Bowie inspects BioSentinel's solar ...
NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is on the brink of discovering the extent of the mess it made on asteroid Bennu's surface during last fall's sample collection event. On Apr. 7, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will get one last close encounter with Bennu as it performs a ...
During the Apollo missions, astronauts bounced around the surface at a casual 1.4 mph (2.2 km/h), according to NASA. This slow speed was mainly due to their clunky, pressurized spacesuits that were not designed with mobility in mind.
Happy Easter! This is the last day of BC's spring break and with everyone 16 years and older eligible for vaccination by April 15, there's reasonable hope that we'll be able to have face-to-face hybrid classes starting in the summer. Sometime this week we ...
NASA is investigating a new series of "Marsquakes" on Earth's planetary neighbor — just the latest exciting mystery being probed on the Red Planet. Scientists at the space agency believe the tremors will offer clues to surface landslides or underground ...
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