The naming of Tooley crater
Like Einstein, Galileo, and Copernicus, former NASA program manager Craig Tooley now has a place on the Moon named in his honor. Tooley crater is a 7 km crater in a permanently shadowed region of Shoemaker crater near the lunar south pole. The new cr.....»»
NASA’s DART Craft Could Leave Asteroid ‘Unrecognizable’: Study
With a diameter of just 560 feet (170 meters), NASA expected DART's 500-kilogram impactor to leave a crater and affect the satellite's orbit around the larger Didymos. Not so, says the new study. The post NASA̵.....»»
Even scientists can"t keep up with all the newly discovered particles. Our new naming scheme could help
Physicists at Cern have discovered a plethora of new exotic particles being created in the collisions produced by the Large Hadron Collider over the past few years. So many have been found in fact, that our collaboration (LHCb), which has discovered.....»»
What Steelers fans’ enduring love for Heinz says about the value of stadium naming rights
Steelers fans’ outrage over the renaming of Heinz Field is a case study in the marketing value of naming rights—and the power of nostalgia. Branded is a weekly column devoted to the intersection of marketing, business, design, and.....»»
NASA eyes three dates for mega moon rocket’s maiden launch
NASA has taken a major step toward the highly anticipated maiden launch of its mega moon rocket, naming three potential launch dates......»»
Scientists find oldest Martian meteorite"s original home
Scientists announced Tuesday they had found the crater from which the oldest known Martian meteorite was originally blasted towards Earth, a discovery that could provide clues into how our own planet was formed......»»
NASA just grounded one of its most important Mars missions
NASA has grounded Ingenuity. The space agency’s tiny Mars-based helicopter is now on an extended break in the Jezero crater. NASA just grounded Ingenuity until August The tiny helicopter has been breaking records since it arrived on the Red Planet.....»»
TikTok proves no one is going to ask you what you"re listening to
Strap in folks, no matter what's going on in the world the TikTokkers keep on TikTokking. This week they're making fun of what are you listening to videos, playing Taylor Swift's "Safe & Sound," and naming horrible situations. I'm listening to...At t.....»»
Machine learning identifies crater that ejected famous Martian rock
New Curtin-led research has pinpointed the exact home of the oldest and most famous Martian meteorite for the first time ever, offering critical geological clues about the earliest origins of Mars......»»
Scientists suggest naming heatwaves as part of early warning system to save lives
The U.K. should name heatwaves as part of an effective early warning system to protect the most vulnerable, says leading U.K. scientists......»»
NASA"s Perseverance rover scouts Mars Sample Return Campaign landing sites
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover is conducting its science campaign, taking samples at Jezero Crater's ancient river delta, but it's also been busy scouting. The rover is looking for locations where the planned Mars Sample Return (MSR) Campaign can lan.....»»
Perseverance rover scoops up a sample from Mars’ Jezero delta
NASA's Perseverance rover recently starting exploring an area of Mars called the Jezero crater delta, and this week it collected its ninth sample so far......»»
Image: Tenoumer Crater, Mauritania
Deep within the Sahara Desert lies one of the best-preserved craters on Earth. On Asteroid Day, the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over the almost-perfectly circular Tenoumer Crater in Mauritania......»»
See the crater left by a space junk impact on the moon
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter snapped an image showing the crater created by a Chinese rocket booster which crashed into the moon earlier this year......»»
NASA"s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spots rocket impact site on moon
Astronomers discovered a rocket body heading toward a lunar collision late last year. Impact occurred March 4, with NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter later spotting the resulting crater. Surprisingly the crater is actually two craters, an eastern c.....»»
Volvo shuffles executive ranks
Volvo CEO Jim Rowan has made sweeping changes to his leadership team, naming two deputy CEOs and moving four executives off the automaker's highest management tier......»»
See the crater scar left on Mars by an ancient impact
The surface of Mars is dotted with craters, created when asteroids, meteoroids, or comets smashed into the planet and caused large impact marks......»»
See all the macOS naming locations in this Apple Maps guide
Apple's "crack marketing team" has now named ten versions of macOS, from Mavericks to Ventura. Here's where they all are, whether they came with a photograph of a sand dune, or a mountain range.Take a look at where macOS Catalina's wallpaper was shot.....»»
NASA"s Perseverance Rover Begins Key Search for Life on Mars
Rolling up an ancient river delta in Jezero Crater, the rover starts crucial rock sampling. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.....»»
Curiosity sees bizarre spikes on Mars
In August 2012, the Curiosity rover landed in the Gale Crater on Mars and began exploring the surface for indications of past life. The rover made some profound discoveries during that time, including evidence that the crater was once a huge lakebed.....»»
NASA"s Perseverance studies the wild winds of Jezero Crater
During its first couple hundred days in Jezero Crater, NASA's Perseverance Mars rover saw some of the most intense dust activity ever witnessed by a mission sent to the Red Planet's surface. Not only did the rover detect hundreds of dust-bearing whir.....»»