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Felton Davis offered thousands of strangers a close-up view of the Moon and planets orbiting New York City. Now he’s passing ...
The curious minds at Aperture unpack the incredible discoveries made by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft during its mission to ...
Right until its final moments, the spacecraft continued to send insightful images of 'The Ringed Planet.' The mission's ...
The Cassini spacecraft represented a landmark in deep-space exploration, combining advanced attitude control and navigation systems to achieve its ambitious mission objectives in the Saturnian ...
Data from the Cassini mission to Saturn has shown that, unlike Earth's atmosphere, Titan's atmosphere doesn't rotate in sync with its surface.
Dr. Birch and his colleagues analyzed over 60 river systems flowing into Titan’s seas using radar data from the Cassini spacecraft. They expected to find multiple deltas. Instead, they found only one ...
This highly abrasive dust can damage spacesuits, spacecraft and equipment. With MACEDONAS, regolith won't get kicked up during landing.
While not a hard edge, or a "wall" as it has sometimes been called, here both spacecraft measured temperatures of 30,000-50,000 kelvin (54,000-90,000 degrees Fahrenheit), which is why it is ...
The Space Launch System rocket and Orion capsule of the Artemis I mission in 2022 stands tall during one of its launch attempts. According to a proposed budget, the rocket and capsule will retire ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A NASA spacecraft around the moon has photographed the crash site of a Japanese company's lunar lander. Related video above: SpaceX rocket being tested in Texas explodes ...
A NASA spacecraft around the moon has photographed the crash site of a Japanese company's lunar lander. NASA released the pictures Friday, two weeks after ispace's lander slammed into the ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A NASA spacecraft around the moon has photographed the crash site of a Japanese company’s lunar lander. NASA released the pictures Friday, two weeks after ispace ...