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InSight?s ?Mole? is Now Completely buried!
17 Oct 00:00:06 | Universe Today
It’s been a long road for InSight’s Mole. InSight landed on Mars almost two years ago, in November 2018. While the lander’s other instruments are working fine and returning scientific data, the Mole has been struggling to hammer its way into the surface of the planet. After much hard work and a lot of patience, …
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Astronomers Report They?ve Detected the Amino Acid Glycine in the Atmosphere of Venus
16 Oct 00:00:11 | Universe Today
Does it feel like all eyes are on Venus these days? The discovery of the potential biomarker phosphine in the planet’s upper atmosphere last month garnered a lot of attention, as it should. There’s still some uncertainty around what the phosphine discovery means, though. Now a team of researchers claims they’ve discovered the amino acid …
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Weekly Space Hangout: October 14, 2020, Drs. Jane Huang & Jonathan Williams, Protoplanetary Disks
16 Oct 00:00:11 | Universe Today
This week we are joined by Dr. Jane Huang and Dr. Jonathan Willams from the Center for Astrophysics, Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA). Dr. Huang, Dr. Williams, and their team recently discovered some surprising information about the size and shape of some protoplanetary disks.
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China?s Mars-bound Tianwen-1 Takes a Selfie
15 Oct 00:00:06 | Universe Today
The CNSA (Chinese National Space Agency) has released an image of its Tianwen-1 spacecraft to coincide with the National Day and Mid-Autumn Festival. The spacecraft is on its way to Mars, and if the landing is successful, China will be only the third nation to successfully land a spacecraft on the planet. The image shows …
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Starman Just Made his Closest Approach to Mars
15 Oct 00:00:06 | Universe Today
In a interesting bit of SpaceX news, Starman and his cherry Tesla Roadster made their first flyby of Mars, and will be passing by Earth in less than a month!
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This is a Landslide? on the Moon
14 Oct 00:00:14 | Universe Today
Landslides bringing you down? Landslides can be found all across our own planet Earth, on all seven continents plus the ocean floors. Similar large mass movements have been spotted around the Solar System on rocky worlds, including our companion, the Moon. This image from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) shows an example of lunar landslides, …
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Do ripples on the surface of the Sun tell us that a flare is coming
14 Oct 00:00:14 | Universe Today
Flares from the sun are some of the nastiest things in the solar system. When the sun flares, it belches out intense X-ray radiation (and sometimes even worse). Predicting solar flares is a tricky job, and a new research paper sheds light on a possible new technique: looking for telltale ripples in the surface of …
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Black Holes Make Complex Gravitational-Wave Chirps as They Merge
13 Oct 00:00:04 | Universe Today
When black holes collide, they emit chirps of gravitational waves even after they have merged.
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How to see what?s on the other side of a wormhole without actually traveling through it
13 Oct 00:00:04 | Universe Today
Wormholes are incredibly fascinating objects, but also completely hypothetical. We simply don’t know if they can truly exist in our universe. But new theoretical insights are showing how we may be able to detect a wormhole – from a spray of high-energy particles emitted at the moment of its formation. It’s easy to describe a …
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Simulation Helps Explain Saturn?s Mysterious Hexagon
12 Oct 00:00:22 | Universe Today
A new study of the mysterious hexagon-shaped storm at Saturn?s north pole suggests this phenomenon is actually the result of activity occurring across the entire planet. In a new paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, scientists say that the unnatural-looking hurricane occurs when atmospheric flows across Saturn create large and …
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