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Zhurong rover detects mysterious polygons beneath the surface of Mars

China's Zhurong rover was equipped with a ground-penetrating radar system, allowing it to peer beneath Mars's surface. Researchers have announced new results from the scans of Zhurong's landing site in Utopia Planitia, saying they identified irregula.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgNov 30th, 2023

NASA is considering other ways of getting its Mars samples home

In 2021, NASA's Perseverance rover landed in the Jezero Crater on Mars. For the next three years, this astrobiology mission collected soil and rock samples from the crater floor for eventual return to Earth. The analysis of these samples is expected.....»»

Category: topSource:  theglobeandmailRelated NewsJun 14th, 2024

NetSPI acquires Hubble to address asset and exposure management challenges

NetSPI announced its acquisition of Hubble, a Northern Virginia-based cyber asset attack surface management (CAASM) and cybersecurity posture management solution. The integration of Hubble’s Asset Intelligence and CAASM product, Aurora, into Th.....»»

Category: securitySource:  netsecurityRelated NewsJun 14th, 2024

The rent is too dang high in Cities: Skylines 2, so the devs nuked the landlords

It was getting so bad, people were actually suggesting building more homes. Enlarge / Remember, folks inside those polygons: If your housing feels too expensive, spend less money on resource consumption. It's just math. (credit:.....»»

Category: topSource:  arstechnicaRelated NewsJun 14th, 2024

NASA"s Perseverance fords an ancient river to reach science target

Originally thought of as little more than a route clear of rover-slowing boulders, Neretva Vallis has provided a bounty of geologic options for the science team......»»

Category: topSource:  pcmagRelated NewsJun 13th, 2024

Ancient ocean slowdown warns of future climate chaos

When it comes to the ocean's response to global warming, we're not in entirely uncharted waters. A UC Riverside study shows that episodes of extreme heat in Earth's past caused the exchange of waters from the surface to the deep ocean to decline......»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsJun 13th, 2024

Space weather forecasting needs an upgrade to protect future Artemis astronauts

NASA has set its sights on the moon, aiming to send astronauts back to the lunar surface by 2026 and establish a long-term presence there by the 2030s. But the moon isn't exactly a habitable place for people......»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsJun 13th, 2024

Nanosized blocks spontaneously assemble in water to create tiny floating checkerboards

Researchers have engineered nanosized cubes that spontaneously form a two-dimensional checkerboard pattern when dropped on the surface of water. The work, published in Nature Communications, presents a simple approach to create complex nanostructures.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsJun 13th, 2024

Researchers discover mysterious mini-Neptunes

Researchers discovered mini-Neptunes around four red dwarfs using observations from a global network of ground-based telescopes and the TESS space telescope. These four mini-Neptunes are close to their parent stars, and the three of them are likely t.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsJun 13th, 2024

Study confirms the rotation of Earth"s inner core has slowed

University of Southern California scientists have proven that the Earth's inner core is backtracking—slowing down—in relation to the planet's surface, as shown in new research published in Nature......»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsJun 13th, 2024

A mountainous mystery uncovered in South Australia"s pink sands

Deposits of deep-pink sand washing up on South Australian shores shed new light on when the Australian tectonic plate began to subduct beneath the Pacific plate, as well as the presence of previously unknown ancient Antarctic mountains......»»

Category: topSource:  pcmagRelated NewsJun 12th, 2024

Fish and chips on Mars: Research shows how colonists could produce their own food

Humans can't help being fascinated by space. That interest seems to be making the possibility of moving humanity to another planet, like Mars or the moon, more distinct, with NASA hoping to set up colonies in the next few decades......»»

Category: topSource:  pcmagRelated NewsJun 12th, 2024

Auroras and radiation from solar storms spotted on Mars

If we ever want to send people to visit the red planet, we're going to need to learn more about radiation and how it's affected by events like solar storms......»»

Category: topSource:  digitaltrendsRelated NewsJun 12th, 2024

Human bodies mostly recover from space, tourist mission shows

How bad for your health is space travel? Answering this question will be crucial not just for astronauts aiming to go to Mars, but for a booming space tourism industry planning to blast anyone who can afford it into orbit......»»

Category: topSource:  marketingvoxRelated NewsJun 11th, 2024

Polarized light yields fresh insight into mysterious fast radio bursts

Scientists looked at how polarization changed direction to learn more about origins Enlarge / Artist’s rendition of how the angle of polarized light from a fast radio burst changes as it journeys through space. (credit: CHIME/.....»»

Category: topSource:  arstechnicaRelated NewsJun 11th, 2024

Plato camera integration begins

The activities to integrate Plato's cameras have started in OHB's Space Center & Optics facility in Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany. One by one the cameras are attached to Plato's optical bench, the surface that keeps all cameras pointed in the right direc.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsJun 11th, 2024

How did a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way come to be? Physicists offer an explanation

Crater 2, located approximately 380,000 light years from Earth, is one of the largest satellite galaxies of the Milky Way. Extremely cold and with slow-moving stars, Crater 2 has low surface brightness. How this galaxy originated remains unclear......»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsJun 11th, 2024

NASA watches Mars light up during epic solar storm

In addition to producing auroras, a recent extreme storm provided more detail on how much radiation future astronauts could encounter on the Red Planet......»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsJun 11th, 2024

First detection of frost on the solar system"s tallest volcanoes on Mars

For the first time, water frost has been detected on the colossal volcanoes on Mars, which are the largest mountains in the solar system. The international team led by the University of Bern used high-resolution color images from the Bernese Mars cam.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsJun 10th, 2024

Fifty-year mystery of Mars" slow polar ice flow solved

Mars polar ice caps were one of the first Earth-like characteristics identified on Mars. Since the development of film in the 19th Century, researchers expected to see Earth-like activity, such as polar ice flow. Mars, however, doesn't follow expecta.....»»

Category: topSource:  theglobeandmailRelated NewsJun 10th, 2024

NASA is commissioning 10 studies on Mars Sample Return—most are commercial

SpaceX will show NASA how Starship could one day return rock samples from Mars. Enlarge / An artist's concept of a Mars Ascent Vehicle orbiting the red planet. (credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech) NASA announced Friday that it wil.....»»

Category: topSource:  arstechnicaRelated NewsJun 8th, 2024