While you might think of the surface of Mars as an other-worldly landscape, new photographs show it doesn't look as different as we might think to our own environment.
The European Space Agency (ESA) has released pictures of an ancient, dried-up river system that stretches out for nearly 700 kilometres across the surface of Mars, which is surprisingly earth-like in appearance.
One of the longest valley networks on the planet, around 3.5 billion to 4 billion years ago, the vast valleys were filled with water forming large rivers.
The Nirgal Vallis region shown in the new images from ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft lies just south of the planet’s equator.
This area of Mars' landscape was shaped by a mix of flowing water and impacts where rocks from space crashed into the martian plane.
Not to change the topic here:
Crowded Space Station: There Are 9 People from 4 Different Space Agencies in Orbit Right Now |
It's a busy week at the International Space Station (ISS). With nine crewmembers currently on board, the orbiting laboratory will be unusually crowded until Thursday (Oct. 3), when three of those crewmembers are scheduled to return to Earth.
While the ISS is usually staffed by three to six astronauts and cosmonauts, there have been nine crewmembers on board the space laboratory since last Wednesday (Sept. 25), when the Soyuz MS-15 spacecraft arrived with three new crewmembers! European Space Agency probe captures new photos of 700km ...flipboard.com/@euronews/ ...photos-of...European Space Agency probe captures new photos of 700km dried-up river system on Mars Euronews - By Emma Beswick While you might think of the surface of Mars as an other-worldly landscape, new photographs show it doesn't look as different as we might think to our own environment.!! This isn't a permanent set-up; part of the reason there are so many humans in space right now has to do with overlap in crew assignments.
Nine is certainly not the highest number of people ever stationed on the space lab. The record for the largest population on the ISS was set in 2009, when there were 13 people on board! Gaia: Largest-ever 3-D Stellar Map Captures One Billion ...www.newsweek.com ...european - space - agency -900372 The "unprecedented map" captures the position and brightness of nearly 1.7 billion stars. ...Tech & Science Milky way Galaxy Stars European Space Agency . ...Gaia is set to probe the skies until ...!! The last time there were nine people on board was in 2015, during NASA astronaut Scott Kelly's " Year in Space " mission.
Scottish Spaceport to Begin Construction Soon | Space
Construction on a low-cost vertical spaceport in the north of Scotland may commence within a year, pending the approval of a planning application by a local authority.
The spaceport, to be called the Space Hub Sutherland, would be built at A'Mhoine on the Moine Peninsula in the county of Sutherland, a few miles from Scotland's Atlantic coast! ESA's Planck space probe captures images of light from Big ...www.news.com.au ...space - probe - ...of...The European Space Agency 's Planck space probe looked back at the afterglow of the Big Bang, and those results have now added about 80 million years to the universe's age, putting it 13.81 billion ...!! This facility would enable vertical rockets to launch small satellites into low Earth polar and sun-synchronous orbits.
In early August, the Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE), a local Scottish government economic and community development agency, signed a 75-year option to lease the land where the spaceport would be built.
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The development, which would cost $20.7 million, received $3 million of funding from the U.K. Space Agency in July of 2018.
'Complex and diverse': New Zealand Space Agency reveals Rocket Lab customers'
The New Zealand Space Agency has lifted the lid on some of the cutting edge technology being sent into space by Rocket Lab customers.
Each of the 34 permits includes the satellite owner by country and organisation, the purpose of the satellite and the type of satellite.
All but one of the permits issued were for Rocket Lab customers. The University of Canterbury Aerospace Club also has a permit to launch a rocket that aims to break a world altitude record .
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The United States has the most permits and approvals with 25, followed by three from New Zealand, two from Australia, two from Singapore and one each from France and Mexico.
While you're here, how about this:
NASA news: Space agency reveals futuristic Moon landing spacesuits - 'Not for the meek'
To ensure the mission’s success, NASA has designed a new generation of futuristic spacesuits.
NASA said: “At first glance, NASA’s new spacesuit that will be worn on Artemis missions might look like the suits that astronauts use for spacewalks outside the International Space Station (ISS) today.
“However, 21st-century moonwalkers will be able to accomplish much more complex tasks than their predecessors, thanks to strides in technological advances that started even before the Apollo program.
“Spacesuits are not only a classic icon of human space exploration, they are also a personalised spaceship that mimics all of the protections from the harsh environment of space and the basic resources that Earth and its atmosphere provide.”
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In direct sunlight, the Moon boils away at 250F degrees, while areas in the shade are at a freezing -250F degrees.
UAE Space Agency: The Golden age of Arab discovery returns | Science – Gulf News
Please share your personal take on the UAE sending its first astronaut to the International Space Station
It is a moment of national pride, not just for me but for the whole country. This is the first Emirati astronaut in space! ESA spacecraft captures mosaic of Mars from orbit newatlas.com/ space /esa- space ...mosaic ESA spacecraft captures stunningly-detailed mosaic of Mars from orbit ...The European Space Agency (ESA) has released a breathtaking mosaic of the Red Planet, stitched together from images taken ...!! We know that Prince Sultan Bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud from Saudi Arabia was the first Arab in space, but that was in 1985, before the International Space Station (ISS).
The first Emirati to be launched into space will also be the first Arab astronaut to visit the ISS. This also proves that the UAE is committed to space — we now have an astronaut programme, we already have a number of satellites in space, we have something that is tangible, something that people can see and appreciate! Rosetta captures comet outburst / Rosetta / Space Science ...Space ...captures _comet_outburst In unprecedented observations made earlier this year, Rosetta unexpectedly captured a dramatic comet outburst that may have been triggered by a landslide. Nine of Rosetta's instruments, including its cameras, dust collectors, and gas and plasma analysers, were monitoring the comet from about 35 km ...!! For me therefore, this is a great moment and I am happy to be able witness this and be a part of this process.
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