(Fig 1: The asteroid 2011 AG5’s close approach to Earth on February 3 was captured in a collage of six planetary radar observations (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech).) A group of astronomers recently had the opportunity to closely examine a potentially dangerous asteroid as it passed by Ea...
The red planet makes its closest approach to Earth at 10:18 am ET on October 6. Mars will be 38,586,816 miles away from Earth --- yes, that's close for Mars -- and it won't be this close again until 2035. Mars in 2003 made its closest approach to Earth in 60,000 years, co...
Mars’ Closest Approach This also happens to be the time of our closest approach to Mars, whose distance varies with each occurrence. The closest approach to Earth in the last 60,000 years was made in 2003. It will be another 2½ centuries (2287) before we get that close again! This ...
The Mars 2020 Perseverance mission is part of NASA’s Moon to Mars exploration approach, which includesArtemis missionsto the Moon that will help prepare for human exploration of the Red Planet. JPL, which is managed for NASA by Caltech in Pasadena, California, built ...
radio interview Sagittarius Scorpio Self Love Show Shadow phase Solar Eclipse questions Station phase Strawberry Moon SuperMoon T-Square Taurus US-Pluto Return Virgo Weekly Forecast "What I loved about the Monthly Forecasting Forum is Sonja's soulful approach to astrology, keeping it in the positive...
This deliberate approach draws the audience into a sensory and deeply subjective experience. This film is deeply personal—I created it to raise awareness about disability, particularly invisible disabilities, a cause very close to my heart. I can’t wait to share it with an audience! Stay...
HRSC normally photographs Mars’s surface from an altitude of about 300 km – the closest the spacecraft gets to Mars in its elliptical orbit – with the resulting images covering areas about 50 km across. However, the mosaic presented here uses a slightly different approach. To view the plan...
The Mars 2020 Perseverance mission is part of NASA’s Moon to Mars approach, which includes Artemis missions to the Moon that will help prepare for human exploration of the Red Planet. JPL, a division of Caltech in Pasadena, California, manages the Mars 2020 Perseverance mission...
midnorthern latitudes. Whilebinocularswill show you Mars as little more than a small, bright red dot,even a small telescopecan reveal surface features and the polar caps when it is this close. Mars opposition is July 27, and then it's closest approach follows a few days later on July 31...
Everest, while theValles Marinerissystem of valleys — named after the Mariner 9 probe that discovered it in 1971 — reaches as deep as 6 miles (10 km) and runs east-west for roughly 2,500 miles (4,000 km), about one-fifth of the distance around Mars and close to the width of ...