Planetary Geology

Scientists Fetch Best Pictures to Date of ‘Dog Bone’ Asteroid and Two Tiny Moons

Dogged monitoring assisted researchers in sniffing out a far better understanding of the space rock.The image shows the asteroid Kleopatra and its two small moons, AlexHelios and CleoSelene, based on data gathered in July 2017. Credit: ESO/Vernazza, Marchis et al./MISTRAL algorithm (ONERA/CNRS)New monitorings of an asteroid shaped like a dog bone and its two tiny...

NASA’s Perseverance Rover Has Taken the First Steps in Decades-long Dream of Mars Sample Return

Perseverance's Mars rock samples may even hide salt crystal time pills.Perseverance rover. Credit: NASANASA's Perseverance rover on Mars has started its perfect rock collection.The rover, which was created to search for indications of ancient life on Mars and package up product for a future sample-return mission, made its first two effective tasting maneuvers on...

What Developed the Strange Titanic Troughs on Asteroid Vesta New Theory Proposed

In this image, we see the asteroid Vesta. Credit: NASA and JPLThe troughs on Vesta have long been a topic of scientific speculation.The asteroid Vesta is the second biggest asteroid in our planetary system. With a size of 330 miles, it orbits the sun between the planets Mars and Jupiter.Asteroids played for long a...

Venera Timeline: The Soviet Union’s Venus Goals in Photos

Learn everything about the Venera missions, which were introduced between 1961 and 1983.Credit: NASACredit: NASACredit: BonhamsCredit: Detlev Van RavenswaayCredit: RoscosmosCredit: RoscosmosCredit: NASACredit: RoscosmosCredit: RoscosmosCredit: RoscosmosCredit: RoscosmosCredit: RoscosmosCredit: RoscosmosOver a third of the 30 space missions to date to successfully fly near or orbit Venus belonged to the previous Soviet Union's Venera series of robot...

International Observatories Unite to Solve Energy Crisis on Jupiter

In this image, Jupiter is shown in visible light for context underneath an artistic impression of the Jovian upper atmosphere’s infrared glow. The brightness of this upper atmosphere layer corresponds to temperatures, from hot to cold, in this order: white, yellow, bright red and lastly, dark red. The aurorae are the hottest regions and...

NASA Wishes to Intentionally Smash a Spacecraft Right into an Asteroid

Like a golf cart relocating at 15,000 miles per hour slamming into the side of a football stadium.'It would have been good if the dinosaurs had a space program.They did not, but some may claim a space program that cannot protect its people from space-based dangers, like colossal asteroids, was not that terrific, after...

Future Mars Housing May Be Built With Astronaut Blood and Urine

The process might additionally "solve a serious emergency comparable to the Apollo 13 calamity."A brand-new type of inexpensive real estate has been suggested for future Mars colonists. All the astronauts are required to do is pay in blood.Scientists from the College of Manchester proposed-- we guarantee this is not the story of a 90s...

How Scientists Found Rare Fireball Meteorite Pieces on a Driveway — and What They Could Teach us

Image of the fireball in 28 February. (Image credit: UK Meteor Observation Network, Author provided)Monica Grady, Professor of Planetary and Space Sciences in the Open University, related who on February 28th at 21:54 GMT, around the time of the late evening news in the UK, a different news story emerged in the night sky -...