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NASA Armstrong Updates 1960s Concept to Study Giant Planets Edwards AFB CA (SPX) Mar 14, 2024 NASA researchers are looking at the possibility of using a wingless, unpowered aircraft design from the 1960s to gather atmospheric data on other planets - doing the same work as small satellites but potentially better and more economically. John Bodylski, a principal investigator at NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, hypothesized a lifting body aircraft design NASA tested decades ago could meet the requirements for an atmospheric probe that can collect measurements of ... read more |
Unlocking the Secrets of Eternal Ice in the Kuiper Belt Los Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 15, 2024 Innovative research published in Icarus unveils the enduring nature of volatile substances such as carbon monoxide (CO) within Kuiper Belt Object 486958 Arrokoth, offering new insights into the long ... more Laurel MD (SPX) Feb 27, 2024 Speeding through the outer edges of the Kuiper Belt, almost 60 times farther from the Sun than Earth, the New Horizons Venetia Burney Student Dust Counter (SDC) instrument is detecting higher than e ... more Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 27, 2024 The Solar System has some new lunar members-the first new moon of Uranus discovered in more than 20 years, and likely the smallest, as well as two new moons of Neptune, one of which is the faintest ... more Washington DC (UPI) Mar 8, 2024 NASA said Friday the Europa Clipper Jupiter mission set to launch in October will carry profound messages from humanity as it gathers scientific data to determine if there are life-supporting conditions. ... more |
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New images reveal what Neptune and Uranus really look like London, UK (SPX) Jan 08, 2024 Neptune is fondly known for being a rich blue and Uranus green - but a new study has revealed that the two ice giants are actually far closer in colour than typically thought. The correct shad ... more Washington DC (UPI) Jan 5, 2024 The true colors of Uranus and Neptune are different than what has been commonly portrayed, according to new research from the Royal Astronomical Society released Friday. ... more Boulder CO (SPX) Dec 21, 2023 New Horizons is healthy and speeding across the Kuiper Belt at a distance of over 5.5 billion miles from Earth! The spacecraft is collecting round-the-clock data on our Sun's cocoon in the gal ... more Greenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 19, 2023 The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope recently trained its sights on weird and enigmatic Uranus, an ice giant that orbits on its side. What Webb found is a dynamic world with rings, moons, sto ... more West Lafayette IN (SPX) Nov 30, 2023 Uranus, the seventh planet from the Sun, orbits in the outer solar system, about two billion miles (3.2 billion kilometers) from Earth. It is an enormous world - quadruple the diameter of Earth, wit ... more |
Juice burns hard towards first-ever Earth-Moon flyby Paris (ESA) Nov 17, 2023 ESA's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) launched from Europe's spaceport in French Guiana on 14 April 2023. It's on a mission to make detailed observations of the giant gas planet and its three large, ocean-bearing moons - Ganymede, Callisto and Europa. But Juice won't begin its investigations into the nature and possible habitability of the Jupiter system until its arrival in 2031. Why does it take so long to get to Jupiter? Well, the short answer is that its less to do with the dist ... read more Paris (ESA) Nov 16, 2023 The unique atmospheric compositions of 'ice giant' planets Uranus and Neptune were recreated to simulate a plunge deep within them, using suitably adapted European shocktubes and plasma facilities. ... more |
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Juno finds Jupiter's winds penetrate in cylindrical layers Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 10, 2023 Gravity data collected by NASA's Juno mission indicates Jupiter's atmospheric winds penetrate the planet in a cylindrical manner, parallel to its spin axis. A paper on the findings was recently publ ... more Bilbo, Spain (SPX) Oct 31, 2023 High-speed jet streams are a common feature in the atmospheres of many planets. On the Earth, jet streams form at various latitudes and meander around the planet, changing latitude and reaching spee ... more Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 31, 2023 Data collected by NASA's Juno mission indicates a briny past may be bubbling to the surface on Jupiter's largest moon. NASA's Juno mission has observed mineral salts and organic compounds on the sur ... more Leicester UK (SPX) Oct 30, 2023 The presence of an infrared aurora on the cold, outer planet of Uranus has been confirmed for the first time by University of Leicester astronomers. The discovery could shed light on the myste ... more Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 25, 2023 To explore the mysterious ice-encrusted moon Europa, the mission will need to endure bombardment by radiation and high-energy particles surrounding Jupiter. When NASA's Europa Clipper begins o ... more |
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