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NASA engineers working on the Voyager 2 spacecraft before its 1977 launch.
Solar System

10 Interesting Facts About the Voyager 2 Probe

Peter Christoforou
NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft embarked on one of the most remarkable journeys in space exploration. Launched in 1977, it became the only spacecraft ever to visit all four giant planets—Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune—before continuing …
No Picture
News

China’s Zhurong Mars Rover Takes a Drive on the Red Planet

James Miller
China has become the first country after the United States to successfully land a rover on Mars. On May 14, 2021, China’s Zhurong rover rolled from its platform onto the red sand, with this historical …
Mars
News

Chinese Tianwen-1 Mars Mission On Track For Its July Launch

James Miller
On April 24th, China has revealed the name and logo of its first independent interplanetary mission. This was done in honor of the 50th anniversary of the launch of the country’s first satellite; the DFH-1 …
clay on Mars
News

Clay on Mars Finding Hints at Once Supporting Life

James Miller
NASA’s Curiosity rover has confirmed the existence of clay on Mars, suggesting that there was once water on the Red Planet. In August 2012, Curiosity landed on the surface of Mars with one of its …
Tardigrade
Space Missions

Can Tardigrades Survive in Open Space?

James Miller
Are we alone in the universe? This is perhaps the greatest unanswered question in astronomy right now. So far we have sent probes in search of life and have found nothing. Sure there is still …
No Picture
News

Chinese Land Rover On Dark Side Of Moon

James Miller
The image above shows the culmination of the Chinese space agency’s Chang’e 4 mission to the dark side of the Moon. In the photo, the mission’s Jade Rabbit 2 lunar rover can be seen rolling …
Voyager 2 Leaves Solar System
News

Voyager 2 Becomes Second Human-made Object to Leave Solar System

James Miller
The artist’s impression above shows the approximate current positions of both Voyager spacecraft relative to the Sun and other surviving spacecraft. Note that while Voyager 1 left the solar system in 2012 above the orbital …
No Picture
News

Latest Mars Colonization Plan May Be Waste of Time and Resources

James Miller
The image above shows what may turn out to be a proposed semi-permanent base on Mars, but the notion that Mars could be colonized by humans is not new, and a plethora of plans on …
Space
News

Making Stuff in Space: Off-Earth Manufacturing is Just Getting Started

James Miller
Space is a perilous place for humans to inhabit: microgravity slackens our muscles and upsets our fluid balance, radiation threatens to ravage DNA, and the yawning vacuum outside is a constant threat. However, for other …
InSight Spacecraft on Mars
News

New InSight Spacecraft to Study Interior Structure of Mars

James Miller
The image above shows an artists’ impression of the deployed InSight spacecraft on the surface of Mars. The craft was launched from the west coast of the USA on May 5. 2018, after a two-year …

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