BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s maiden space exploration mission to Mars has captured its first image of the red planet, the space agency said on Friday, some six months after the probe left Earth. The uncrewed Tianwen-1 took the picture at a distance of around 2.2 million km (1.4 million...
Occasionally, however, such a craft does bear a name that truly reflects the nature of its intended goal. This was certainly the case with NASA's 2011-2012 mission to Mars bearing an aptly named roving vehicle: Curiosity.Donald C. Elder Ⅲ...
Demand for the ride has fallen off and the 10 workers who staff it will be needed to tend an “Indiana Jones” ride scheduled to open in February. The closing of the Skyway mirrors the closing of “Mission to Mars” and the “Motorboat Cruise” last year following the opening of “Micke...
the festival coincided with the Shenzhou-10 manned space mission. Before the launch, Xi said that the taikonauts should be able to celebrate the festival, too, and requested that zongzi be added to the spaceship pantry
This is not a close-up of a dried orange peel but the incendiary details of the sun in outer space. The Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope, a new instrument based on Earth, has delivered its first images. These snapshots, capturing an area of the burbling solar atmosphere, are giving ...
Back in July 1965, the Mariner Four Space Probe transmitted the first close - up pictures of Mars and convinced many people that Mars was as dead as our own moon. Two later space probes seemed to confirm this. But then, in 1971, Mariner Nine raise hopes once again that there could be...
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – NASA announced the agency has moved up the rollout of the Artemis 1 Moon rocket from the iconic Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) to its launch pad by nearly 2 days to Tuesday, Aug. 16 and is still targeting Aug. 29 as the ...
Planetary geologist Scott Murchie '81 leads a team that built and operates the high-tech camera now orbiting Mars and analyzes images used to help select landing sites for the Phoenix lander and the Mars Science Laboratory, scheduled for launch in 2009. Murchie's work is groundbreaking—literall...
on the Mars Global Surveyor (which took images of the Cydonia region in 1998 and 2001) and now HiRISE — which shows incredible detail from 300 kilometers above the surface — have certainly set the record straight. Unfortunately, some people still cling to the notion of a face on Mars. ...