Lightning strikes NASA's Artemis 1 moon megarocket launch pad | Mars craters show layers of ice in stunning photos | April's sky brings dance of 4 morning planets to see at dawn
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Lightning struck the launch pad home of NASA's giant Artemis 1 moon rocket four times on Saturday and it looked amazing on video. The rocket was fine, NASA says.
The European Space Agency (ESA) mission shows so-called "mantle deposits" of ice and dust at in Utopia Planitia, a region that is roughly twice the size of Earth's Sahara Desert.
Dmitry Rogozin, the head of Russia's federal space agency Roscosmos, decried the sanctions imposed by the United States, Japan, Canada and the European Union - the other ISS partners - on his nation because of its invasion of Ukraine.
A problem on the Artemis 1 rocket's mobile launcher, a platform that includes its gantry tower and other vital equipment, foiled the test, NASA officials said.
Remote observations by Hayabusa2 suggest that rather than a single, monolithic boulder, Ryugu is a rubble-pile asteroid composed of small pieces of rock and solid material clumped together by gravity, researchers reported in a recent study.
The chances of an asteroid dubbed 1950 DA crashing into Earth were always tiny and long in the future: As of 2015, scientists had calculated that the object had a 1 in 8,000 chance of impacting Earth in the year 2880. But a new analysis released on Tuesday (March 29) knocks the asteroid out of the top spot of NASA's list of known asteroids that are most potentially hazardous to Earth.
The Ax-1 mission's liftoff is now scheduled for Friday at 11:17 a.m. EDT (1517 GMT). If all goes to plan, SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule with the crew will reach the space station on Saturday (April 9) at 7:30 a.m EDT (1130 GMT), Axiom Space said in a statement.
(MIT Space Exploration Initiative / TU Dortmund Fraunhofer Institute)
The Houston company Axiom Space has a huge science haul planned for its debut mission, including robots and filters that could assist with future space exploration at the moon or Mars.
The mission's participants, aside from Ax-1 commander, retired NASA astronaut and current Axiom vice president of business development Michael López-Alegría, paid for their seats.
Hoping to provide a cohesive template for further ventures into the reflective realm of "Star Trek's" Mirror Universe, a new partnership between Star Trek Online and IDW Publishing was recently announced to allow for synergy and narrative material in the future.
