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Uranus is more normal than we had thought NASA/Space Telescope Science Institute Uranus’s strange magnetic field may be much less weird than astronomers first thought, which means its largest moons could be much more active, and even perhaps have global oceans. Our only direct measurements of Uranus’s magnetic field come from NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft, […]
China’s space agency has opened up a first round of applications for researchers to borrow its Chang’e 6 lunar far side samples. Chang’e 6 launched in May this year. The complex, multi-spacecraft, 53-day mission collected samples from Apollo crater on the far side of the moon and returned to Earth in late June. Now, small […]
Tesserae are one of Venus’s many mysteries — we don’t know how they formed, or when. This radar image shows Alpha Regio; the bright area contains the jumbled terrain characteristic of tesserae. NASA / JPL Detailed mapping of one of the oldest terrains on Venus has revealed a giant impact structure of a type never […]
A small world in the outer solar system appears to have volcanic activity possibly spurred by liquid water Source link
Scientists continue to piece together the moon’s complex history using lunar samples collected during NASA’s Apollo missions over half a century ago. A fresh analysis of lunar dust collected by Apollo 16 astronauts in 1972 offers a clearer picture of the effects of asteroid strikes on the moon, allowing scientists to reconstruct billions of years […]
QUICK FACTS Where is it? Otago region, New Zealand [-45.39649095, 170.20379599] What’s in the photo? An elongated lenticular cloud known as the “Taieri Pet” Which satellite took the photo? Landsat 8 When was it taken? Sept. 7, 2024 A peculiar “pet cloud” took center stage in a recent satellite photo of New Zealand. The freaky […]
Lakes have appeared in the Sahara after a cyclone brought a deluge of rain to northern Africa that drenched swathes of the largest hot desert on Earth, satellite images show. An extratropical cyclone hit parts of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya on Sept. 7 and 8, dropping around 8 inches (20 centimeters) on the affected […]
07 NASA X-ray Telescopes Reveal the “Bones” of a Ghostly Cosmic Hand In 1895, Wilhelm Röntgen discovered X-rays and used them to image the bones in his wife’s hand, kicking off a revolutionary diagnostic tool for medicine. Now two of NASA’s X-ray space telescopes have combined their imaging powers to unveil the magnetic field “bones” […]
The first images from a new space-based telescope launched into Earth’s orbit to monitor the sun captured a striking solar storm outburst. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) shared the first images taken by its Compact Coronagraph (CCOR-1), the world’s first operational space-based coronagraph. CCOR-1 is mounted on NOAA’s newest geostationary satellite, GOES-19, which […]
When a star goes supernova in a giant explosion, it can clear away matter in nearby star systems muratart/Shutterstock The blast from a supernova should be enough to clear almost all the dust from the solar system, and this may have last happened 3 million years ago. But like the dust on furniture, these fine […]