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NASA is just days away from a key fueling test of its new megarocket that may make or break the space agency's chances of launching its Artemis 1 mission to the moon next week.
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The James Webb Space Telescope conducted its first study of Mars. Astronomers used a special technique to analyze the chemical 'fingerprints' produced by different wavelengths of light reflected by Mars' atmosphere in the resulting images. What is the name of this technique?
Climate tipping points - the "points of no return" past which key components of Earth's climate will begin to irreversibly break down - could be triggered by much lower temperatures than scientists previously thought
(M.Weiss/Center for Astrophysics/Harvard & Smithsonian)
It's very difficult to observe young planets directly through all the debris. Instead, scientists must rely on clues that might infer the presence of a protoplanet, but most of those clues are pretty circumstantial at best.
Heads of the world's major space agencies presented their big plans for the coming years at the International Astronautical Congress (IAC) 2022 in Paris.