Tuesday, August 16, 2022

This tiny moon rover has a leg up on traditional spacecraft designs

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August 16, 2022
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The Launchpad
This tiny moon rover has a leg up on traditional spacecraft designs
(European Space Agency)
Named after the Dutch phrase for "six-legged," Lunar Zebro will indeed have six legs instead of wheels, allowing it to climb taller obstacles on the moon than its wheeled counterparts can overcome.
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NASA film traces Artemis 1 rocket's 'Path to the Pad' as mission stack rolls out today
(NASA/Kim Shiflett)
All eyes will be trained on the Kennedy Space Center in Florida today as NASA's magnificent Artemis 1 rocket and Orion capsule trot out to Launch Complex 39B.
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Black hole 'superradiance' phenomenon may aid quest for dark matter
(ajijchan via Getty Images)
Black holes affect their environments in interesting, complicated ways. One of those ways leads to a process called superradiance, in which a black hole boosts any nearby light into intense levels of energy.
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NASA will use its massive Crawler-transporter 2 (CT-2) to roll out the Artemis 1 rocket and Orion capsule to Launch Complex 39B on Tuesday (Aug. 16). What is the top speed of Crawler-transporter 2 when fully-loaded?
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Saturn is at opposition. See it shine at its best for 2022 in a free webcast tonight.
(Virtual Telescope Project)
The ringed planet Saturn is often hailed as the jewel of the solar system and you have a chance to see why in a free webcast tonight.
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Science & Astronomy
'Cannibal' solar bursts may bring auroras as far south as New York
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Giant meteorite strikes in Earth's distant history may have helped form continents
(NASA/Don Davis)
Tiny crystals of zircon could be geological evidence that the continents were born at meteor impact sites.
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Meteorites that reach the Earth fall from asteroid butts
(Erik Simonsen/Getty Images)
Scientists break down how meteors break up. Meteorites, it seems, come from their rear end.
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Spaceflight
Mars explorers could harvest oxygen from the atmosphere using plasma
(NASA/JPL-Caltech)
An international team of researchers has devised a plasma-based approach to producing oxygen on Mars to support exploration.
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Technology
China's X-ray observatory detects strongest magnetic field ever recorded
(CASC)
A Chinese X-ray telescope has detected the strongest-ever magnetic field recorded by making observations of a rapidly-spinning neutron star, or magnetar.
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Star Wars
Exclusive: Wedding bells ring in new 'Star Wars' novel, 'The Princess and the Scoundrel'
(Random House World)
Bestselling author Beth Revis goes on a honeymoon with Han and Leia in this new romantic adventure.
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