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NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover will use some of the best Martian maps ever made

NASA's next Mars rover, Perseverance, will explore the Red Planet with the aid of some of the most precise Martian maps ever created. Perseverance, the centerpiece of NASA's $2.7 billion Mars 2020 mission, is scheduled to launch from Florida's Cape ...

China launches 3 satellites into orbit, including a 'lobster-eye' to hunt dark matter

China launched a trio of satellites into orbit Saturday (July 25) on separate missions to study the Earth, hunt dark matter with an X-ray "lobster-eye" and collect commercial data. A Long March 4B rocket successfully launched the Ziyuan III 03 Earth-observation ...

NASA's Ingenuity--the First Ever Off-World Helicopter--Is Set for a 'Wright Brothers Moment' on Mars

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Scientific American

The SUV-sized Perseverance rover due to launch to Mars this week has a sidekick: a svelte four-pound helicopter with four-foot-long rotor blades that weigh as light as feathers. It will attempt to make the first powered flight on another planet, a potential ...

NASA will send a balloon the size of a football field to study how stars form

(CNN) NASA plans to send an enormous balloon to the edge of Earth's stratosphere in search of secrets about how stars and planets form. The space agency's ASTHROS mission will depart from Antarctica in December 2023 and spend three weeks in the ...

Researchers offer unprecedented look into 'central engine' powering a solar flare

In a study published in Nature Astronomy, an international team of researchers has presented a new, detailed look inside the "central engine" of a large solar flare accompanied by a powerful eruption first captured on Sept. 10, 2017 by the Owens Valley Solar ...

ExoMars finds new gas signatures in the martian atmosphere

ESA's ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter has spotted new gas signatures at Mars. These unlock new secrets about the martian atmosphere, and will enable a more accurate determination of whether there is methane, a gas associated with biological or geological ...

A photonic amorphous topological insulator

The current understanding of topological insulators and their classical wave analogs, such as photonic topological insulators, is mainly based on topological band theory. Contrary to this, Scientists in China and Singapore experimentally showed photonic ...

Hubble telescope captures stunningly clear image of summertime on Saturn

(CNN) NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has beamed back an amazing photo showing summertime on Saturn. Hubble captured the image on July 4, when the giant planet was 839 million miles from Earth, according to a statement from NASA released ...

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Coming of Age on Mars

The New York Times

In the winter of 2004, Sarah Stewart Johnson, then a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was on a field trip in the desert east of California's Sierra Nevada. While learning to map geological terrains, she fell prey to an adolescent thrill ...

Trapping tiny particles: A versatile tool for nanomanipulation

Using a metamaterial, the group traps nanoparticles. Credit: Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology. At just 1/1000th of a millimeter, nanoparticles are impossible to see with the naked eye. But, despite being small, they're extremely important in many ...