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Looking back at Pathfinder as the start of modern Mars exploration
And a cool fact about the mission and the Internet.
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By Jatan Mehta | Dives into lunar exploration, space technology, Indian space, planetary science, and more.
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Rings in our Solar System can come and go
By the time Saturn becomes a pale hazy brown ringless orb, another planet will have adorned a cosmic crown of its own.
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NASA and ESA are collaborating to better explore our Moon with Lunar Pathfinder
At the ESA Ministerial Council meeting in Netherlands on June 15, 2022, NASA and ESA extended their space collaboration in several ways, including agreeing to cooperate on the Lunar Pathfinder orbiter mission, whose spacecraft is being built by UK’s Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. (SSTL) with input from anchor customer
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How Uranus and Neptune are key to unlocking how planets form
A flagship mission to the ice giants will forever change our understanding of the origin and evolution of our solar system, and those beyond.
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When to worry about an asteroid hitting Earth
And how to treat sensationalist headlines.
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When will we explore Saturn’s moon Enceladus to find alien life?
While NASA will launch Dragonfly later this decade to Titan, another potentially habitable moon of Saturn, no space agency is currently funding a mission to Enceladus.
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India’s Chandrayaan 2 lunar orbiter is also a Sun watcher
India’s Chandrayaan 2 orbiter doesn’t just study the Moon’s surface but also observes the Sun. Its high-resolution Solar X-ray Monitor (XSM) is used to study solar flares and provide a reference for the Chandrayaan-2 Large Area Soft X-ray Spectrometer (CLASS) instrument, which maps elements on the Moon’
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My articles on our search for alien life
Countless worlds beyond Earth are brimming with possibilities of life. Our exploration of the Solar System and the exploding field of exoplanets have already expanded our notions of places where life might arise and take solace—from Earth-like planets to icy moons with underground oceans. Here are articles and notes
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Our two-faced Moon
Why is our Moon's farside so different from its nearside?
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How we test spacecraft before launch
The array of space-simulating test facilities a spacecraft tours through before it can blast off of Earth.
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NASA is funding a Moon mission to the magnetic swirl of Reiner Gamma
Intuitive Machines' third Moon landing mission will help us better understand the evolution of planetary surfaces across the solar system.
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Is life possible on rogue planets and moons?
A look at how starless free-floating worlds might represent the most common habitable real estate of the Universe.