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A skyscraper-sized 'potentially hazardous' asteroid will zip through Earth's orbit on Halloween A newly discovered, "potentially hazardous" asteroid almost the size of the world's tallest skyscraper is set to tumble past Earth just in time for Halloween, according to NASA. The asteroid, called 2022 RM4, has an estimated diameter of between 1,083 ...
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The sun was 'smiling' in a NASA photo. It might be a warning for Earth. It turns out that anyone who drew a smiley-faced sun as a kid has been scientifically proved — somewhat — right. Last week, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured an image of the biggest object in our solar system looking like the Stay Puft ...
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Astronaut candidates' fly-shaped class patch is a lunar 'slam dunk' NASA's astronaut candidates are giving new definition to "fly me to the moon" with their newly-revealed class patch. The 12 spaceflight trainees — 10 from the U.S. and two from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) — reported for two years of basic training ...
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Perseverance to establish sample cache for later return to Earth WASHINGTON — NASA and the European Space Agency have selected a location on Mars to cache samples collected by the Perseverance rover, one step in the overall process of returning those samples to Earth. NASA announced Oct. 28 that the agencies agreed ...
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This Stellar Ghost Isn't Scary. It's Stunning It's a whopping 554 million-pixel image that paints a cosmic marvel, called the Vela supernova remnant, in translucent lavenders, piercing pale blues and stringy sunset colors. In the spirit of Halloween, might I ...
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Perseverance Rover Prepares to Drop Off Mars Samples for Return Mission The Perseverance rover is a well-equipped robot with a gaggle of cameras, multiple spectrometers, and even a little box that makes oxygen. You can't get every possible scientific instrument on a Mars-bound rover, though. To really understand the red ...
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U.Va creates technology to aid NASA lunar exploration NASA has selected the School of Engineering and Applied Science to work on technology that can hopefully be applied for future missions to the moon as it prepares to launch Artemis and return astronauts to the moon. With the last manned mission to the ...
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Mars lander discovers massive crater created by meteoroid near Martian equator, unearths buried ice ORLANDO, Fla. — A recent discovery by NASA's InSight lander could have implications for NASA's future plans to send astronauts to the red planet. On Dec. 24, 2021, NASA's InSight lander recorded a magnitude 4 Marsquake that scientists later learned was ...
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NASA tool can detect methane 'super-emitters' from space The agency's Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT), installed on the International Space Station in July, has found more than 50 locations in Asia, the Middle East and the United States releasing methane at high rates.
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Astro Bob: Total lunar eclipse highlights November sky events Temperatures may plummet in November, but the heavens are heating up! Check out the latest night-sky calendar. Total eclipse May 2022. The fully eclipsed moon is dark enough to see stars right up to its edge. Binoculars provide the best view.
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