Danuri, a South Korean spacecraft, has been in lunar orbit for months, and it has now sent back stunningly detailed photographs of the Moon’s craters. Four photographs of the lunar surface have been transmitted by the Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter (KPLO) mission, which is controlled by the Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI). The photos show […]
Indian Airbus C295 completes first flight in Seville 2023
The first Airbus C295 for India flew in Seville, Spain, marking a major milestone toward its delivery in the second part of this year. India purchased 56 C-295 transport aircraft from Airbus Defence and Space for about Rs 21,000 crore in September 2021 to replace the IAF’s aging Avro-748 planes. Airbus will deliver 16 “fly-away” […]
Earth will perform ‘rock’ songs during a concert 2023
Geologists are ‘rockstars’, somewhat distinct from their guitar-strumming, long-haired counterparts, but with much more intimate knowledge of the literal ‘rock’ aspect of the industry. Now, a crossover between these (extremely) dissimilar fields may be on the horizon. Geologists may not be able to lead audiences in a pleasant head-banging routine, but a crossover between these […]
Add lots of legs to a crawling robot to make it better 2023
Robots like more legs on bumpy routes. Two-legged balancing is harder than four-legged. What if you had many legs like a centipede? A robot with multiple, connected legs can easily climb over cracks, hills, and uneven surfaces without extensive sensor systems, according to Georgia Institute of Technology researchers. The journal Science published their findings this […]
Nearly 200 Mars fragments reached Earth. But how? 2023
Mars meteorites account for 188 of Earth’s thousands. Did they arrive how? Over the Solar System’s turbulent history, asteroids have slammed with Mars with such intensity that the debris was ejected into space and drifted until it entered the Earth’s atmosphere and survived the fall. Astronomers assumed only the strongest impacts could launch pebbles from […]
The Webb Telescope May Tell Us How Long Saturn’s Rings Will Last 2023
Our solar system’s renowned ring systems, notably Saturn’s, would top the list. What if we told you those magnificent rings may soon disappear? Due to Saturn’s tremendous gravity, its innermost rings dissolve into its upper atmosphere. This gravitational pull is so strong that frozen rings falling on Earth may fill an Olympic-sized swimming pool every […]
NASA suggests four massive Uranus moons may have oceans 2023
NASA scientists have concluded that four of Uranus’ largest moons may contain an ocean stratum between their ice cores and crusts, based on a re-analysis of Voyager data and new computer modeling. The Journal of Geophysical Research article describes the evolution of the composition and structure of all five main Uranus moons: Ariel, Umbriel, Titania, […]
Ice-hunting Artemis 1 moon cubesat may soon die 2023
There appears to be little time remaining to save the LunaH-Map cubesat from NASA. The investigation was one of ten cubesats launched as ride-along instruments on Artemis 1 in November 2014, the inaugural mission of NASA’s moon-bound Artemis program. The objective of LunaH-Map was to map the abundance and distribution of water ice near the […]
CMCC has top climate science 2023
Sea blue, sun yellow. Lecce’s windswept sky and ancient center’s native stone are Mediterranean colors, even though it’s a few tens of kilometers from the shore. It’s no surprise that the largest Italian climate change research center, focused on the Mare Nostrum, is in Salento’s city. The Euro-Mediterranean Center for Climate Change was founded here […]