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Now, a new discovery by NASA’s Perseverance rover shows a trifecta of compelling evidence—including the presence of water, organic compounds, and a chemical energy source—all on one rock ...
The first test of two-way laser communication occurred in December 2021 when NASA’s Laser Communications Relay Demonstration launched and went into orbit about 22,000 miles (35,406 kilometers ...
NASA had expected to use a newly built Crew Dragon capsule to launch Crew-10 as soon as February, but in December the space agency revealed that mission teams needed additional “time to complete ...
9 May: A cubic millimetre of the human brain is mapped at nanoscale resolution by a team at Google 30 May: NASA reports the discovery of the most distant known galaxy. 9 May. A record annual increase in atmospheric CO 2 is reported from the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii, with a jump of 4.7 parts per million (ppm) compared to a year earlier. [285]
VERITAS was again proposed for the Discovery Program in 2019, and was selected for Phase A funding on 13 February 2020. [10] On 2 June 2021, it was selected, along with DAVINCI+, to fly as one of the next Discovery missions. [11] [12] Each mission will get approximately US$500 million in funding.
DAVINCI (Deep Atmosphere Venus Investigation of Noble gases, Chemistry, and Imaging) is a planned mission for an orbiter and atmospheric probe to the planet Venus.Together with the separate VERITAS mission, which will also study Venus, it was selected by NASA on June 2, 2021 to be part of their Discovery Program.
NASA will crash a spacecraft into an asteroid for the first time ever as part of the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), a planetary defense mission. NASA's latest mission will nudge an asteroid.
The new findings indicate that water evaporated and left behind brines that resemble the salty crusts of dry lakebeds on Earth. More: High resolution photos of asteroid materials revealed.