the size of Stephenson 2-18 in comparison to our Sun, would extend out and engulf the orbit of Saturn
How far are they eventually gonna fly that little dude. Is it mostly gonna be used to help locate interesting stuff for the rover?
President Biden’s pick for NASA administrator, former Sen. Bill Nelson, breezed through his Senate confirmation hearing on Wednesday, as expected. Facing questions from his “old buddies” about NASA’s commercial partnerships, climate change, and workforce diversity, Nelson’s hearing was uneventful and garnered bipartisan praise. He backed the agency’s current plan to send its first crew of astronauts to the Moon on a SpaceX rocket and emphasized NASA’s role in studying climate change.Moon not canceled
https://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/long-solar-systems-longest-day-venus-answer-rcna826
Data obtained by bouncing radio waves off Venus — treating it, as one scientist said, like a giant disco ball — is providing new insight into Earth's closest planetary neighbor, including a precise calculation of the duration of a Venusian day.
The study also measured the tilt of the Venusian axis and size of the planet's core, allowing for a deeper understanding of an enigmatic world sometimes called Earth's 'evil twin.'
It was already known that Venus has the longest day — the time the planet takes for a single rotation on its axis — of any planet in our solar system, though there were discrepancies among previous estimates.
The study found that a single Venusian rotation takes 243.0226 Earth days. That means a day lasts longer than a year on Venus, which makes a complete orbit around the sun in 225 Earth days.
By Perfect Blue Go To PostA Chinese rocket fell out of the sky apparently.China has been doing several "uncontrolled" re-entries the past few years. It's really bizarre.
By DY_nasty Go To Postchina officially on mars now (allegedly)Eyes up guardians
space force rise up
By DY_nasty Go To Postchina officially on mars now (allegedly)It's on America's tortured brow
space force rise up
By Fenderputty Go To PostJesus Christ you’re a drag🤣
This needs to be a success so costs can fall and I can go to space in 20 years in a commercial flight
By Fenderputty Go To PostThis needs to be a success so costs can fall and I can go to space in 20 years in a commercial flightif amazon gets real traction in the new space race, the price of the brick is goin up
By Fenderputty Go To PostThis needs to be a success so costs can fall and I can go to space in 20 years in a commercial flightAre you ready to handle reilo complaining about that money not going into trains?
Terrestrial infrastructure about to be completely abandoned in favor of inaccessible commercial development in space? Would be cool if any science fiction up to now had predicted this
The Martian ice cap is like a cake with every layer telling a story. In this case, the story is one of climate change on Mars.
This image shows sedimentary rock and sand within Danielson Crater, an impact crater about 42 miles or 67 kilometers in diameter, located in the southwest Arabia Terra region of Mars.
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A Dune Field Near Nili Patera
This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows a small (0.4 kilometer) mesa, one of several surrounded by sand dunes in Noctis Labyrinthyus, an extensively fractured region on the western end of Valles Marineris.
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/MRO/images/index.html
Recommended watch: Mars: One day on the Red Planet (Nat Geo)