Aerospace Engineer Swati Mohan Plays Not My Job On 'Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!' : NPR
Swati Mohan was the Guidance and Controls Operations Lead on the NASA Mars 2020 Mission, which successfully landed the newest Mars Rover, Perseverance, on February 18. We've invited Mohan to play a game called "Mars is too fars." Three questions about planets here on Earth: Planet Fitness, Planet Hollywood and "Lonely Planet" travel guides.
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SAGAL: I'm very happy to have you. Congratulations, first of all, on the very cool thing that you did. Were you as excited as everybody else was? Because we were all pretty excited.
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Watch A Rare "Planetary Trio" This Weekend As Saturn, Jupiter, And Mercury Meet In The
There won't be another planetary trio in the sky until 2026. Image credit: Vadim Sadovski/Shutterstock.com
For most of this year, you'll be able to catch a lot of planets appearing near each other in the night sky, which makes for some cool astronomical views even without fancy equipment. This weekend, however, you can see a planetary trio that won't happen again for another five years. Mercury, Jupiter, and Saturn will be in a tight little triangle in the eastern sky just before dawn.
'Nearby' Planets That Might Be More Habitable Than Our Own | IE
In 2020. astronomers created a shortlist of 24 planets they thought could be considered superhabitable candidates, out of the more than 4,000 known exoplanets. These planets were specifically identified by first looking at planetary systems that have terrestrial planets in the habitable zone, and which orbit K-type main-sequence stars. Some of these planets were 1.5 times the mass of Earth and estimated to be between 5 and 8 billion years old, with similar temperatures.
Newly Discovered Planetary System Offers Glimpse Into How Planets Evolve
The newly discovered TOI 451 planetary system features three planets orbiting the same sun. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
A newly discovered planetary system will provide researchers with the rare chance to study a group of growing planets, according to research co-led by Dartmouth.
“The sun in this planetary system is very similar to our own sun, but much younger,” says Elisabeth Newton, an assistant professor of physics and astronomy who co-leads the research team. “By studying these planets in the context of others, we can piece together the picture of how planets form and develop.”
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Families invited to 3-day virtual space adventure at Planets in the Park event
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SAN ANTONIO – The San Antonio River Authority is welcoming all children and their families to take part in a three-day, virtual space adventure.
This is the sixth year for SARA's Planets in the Park event, which is set for Feb. 26 -28. However, due to the coronavirus pandemic, this year's event will be in a virtual capacity instead of being held at Helton Nature Park.
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Kids and their families can enjoy a virtual planetarium by the Scobee Education Center and space-science presentations from renowned STEM professionals, according to the river authority.
Just Some of the Planets That TESS Has Found Nearby - Universe Today
Ever since NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope was launched in 2009, there has an explosion in the study of the extrasolar planets. With the retirement of Kepler in 2018, it has fallen to missions like the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) to pick up where its predecessor left off. Using observations from TESS, an international team of astronomers recently discovered three exoplanets orbiting a young Sun-like star named TOI 451.
The research was led by Elisabeth R. Newton, an assistant professor of physics and astronomy at Dartmouth College. She was joined by researchers from NASA JPL, NASA Goddard, NASA Ames, the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute, the SETI Institute, the Max-Planck-Institute for Astronomy, the Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research, and multiple universities and observatories.
Here's what we know about planetary protection on China's Mars mission | Space
This spring, China will attempt its first Mars landing. But in anticipation of that milestone, scientists are wondering whether the Tianwen-1 rover may carry Earthly contamination with it to the surface.
NASA's Perseverance rover went through precisely that treatment before it left Earth in July for its journey to Mars. However, Congress bans NASA from communicating with its Chinese counterpart.
"I don't know anything beyond what all the rest of us know from the public releases of information, but they do participate," Lisa Pratt, NASA's planetary protection officer , told a virtual meeting of the committee leading the creation of a new decadal survey identifying the priorities of planetary scientists into the 2030s on Feb. 11.
New Study Knocks Theory of Planet Nine's Existence Out of Orbit | Smart News |
The hidden Planet Nine first made headlines in 2016 when Caltech researchers Mike Brown and Konstantin Batygin found evidence of a massive object ten times the size of Earth orbiting 20 times farther away from the sun than Neptune. Using computer simulations and modeling, Planet Nine was found based on observing six "extreme" Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs) that appeared clustered together.
But a recent study carried out by Kevin Napier, a physics Ph.D. student at the University of Michigan, and his colleagues could challenge Brown and Batygin's analysis.
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