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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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By Jatan Mehta | Dives into lunar exploration, space technology, Indian space, planetary science, and more.
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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.
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TESS is finding Earth-like planets around the galaxy's most common stars
NASA’s planet-finding telescope is charting Earth-like worlds around nearby stars, especially red dwarfs, for future telescopes to assess their potential for life.
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VERITAS, NASA’s Venus mapper
NASA’s mission to understand Venus’ possibly habitable past and hostile present.
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ExoMars 2022: The Kazachok lander and Rosalind Franklin rover
A joint European-Russian mission to find signs of life on Mars.
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A brief history of space missions lost to human errors
When seemingly benign code can demolish your rocket, a planetary spacecraft, and millions of dollars.
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EnVision, Europe’s mission to Venus
EnVision will tell us how Earth’s sister planet went from being habitable to hellish.