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NASA's mission to collide with asteroid sent 'swarm of boulders' into space - ABC ...

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The Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft, or DART, collided with Dimorphos, a small asteroid that is the moon of a bigger space rock, Didymos, at about 14,000 miles per hour. The boulders range in size from three feet to 22 feet across and are drifting away from the asteroid at about half a mile per hour. Publisher: ABC News Date: 2023-07-25T12:16:24Z Author: ABC News Twitter: @ABC Reference: (Read more) Visit Source

NASA power outage disrupts communication between Mission Control and ISS - Science News

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NASA power outage disrupts communication between Mission Control and ISS - Science News ISS is a unique space station currently in lower Earth orbit. It facilitates collaborative projects involving five participating space agencies: NASA, Roscosmos, JAXA, ESA and CSA  The communication between the International Space Station (ISS) and Mission Control was disrupted on Tuesday (July 25) because of a power outage at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's building in Houston, United States.  Publisher: WION Twitter: @wion Reference: (Read more) Visit Source

Crazy, Close-Orbiting Lava World May Still Have Day-Night Cycles

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Extrasolar planet researchers obsess night and day about detecting habitable solar systems and planets. But the vast majority of planets in our galaxy are hardly habitable and many are just downright bizarre. But until recently it was assumed that 55 Cancri e would be rotationally, tidally locked with its parent star, so that one side of the planet would remain in perpetual daylight. Publisher: Forbes Date: 2023-07-25 Author: Bruce Dorminey Twitter: @forbes Reference: (Read more) Visit Source

Robots teaching other robots – it’s no longer science fiction • Earth.com

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Robots teaching other robots – it's no longer science fiction • Earth.com In a world where everyone holds their unique area of expertise, the exchange of knowledge can be an enlightening experience. This got researchers pondering — can the same principle be applied to machines, with robots teaching other robots? Take for instance a poker pro, a connoisseur of French cuisine, and a Mozart aficionado. When these three combine their knowledge, they learn something new from each other and walk away richer in wisdom than before. Publisher: Earth.com Date: 2023-07-23T00:16:57 00:00 Twitter: @earthdotcom Reference: (Read more) Visit Source

Dramatic Flyby Confirms That Mercury's Radioactive Aurora Touches the Ground | Discover ...

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Earth's beautiful, neon-colored aurorae occur when charged particles from the sun (the solar wind) collide with the planet's outer atmosphere, called the ionosphere. New research released by the Europlanet Society details the cause behind an even stranger aurora, the one that regularly wreathes Mercury with X-rays. This aurora arises from the planet's surface, not its upper atmosphere, for reasons described in a new paper . Publisher: Discover Magazine Twitter: @DiscoverMag Reference: (Read more) Visit Source

Yes, two planets really can share the same orbit - Big Think

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If two planets pass closely by one another in orbit, one can perturb the other, resulting in a massive orbital change. These two planets could collide, one of them could get ejected, or one could even get hurled into their central star. This last definition, strictly speaking, rules out two planets sharing the same orbit, since the orbit wouldn’t be considered “cleared” if there were two of them. Publisher: Big Think Date: 2023-07-25T05:14:52 00:00 Twitter: @bigthink Reference: (Read more) Visit Source

Mystery 'spiky' debris on Mars could be doomed spacecraft as scientists admit ...

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In a new study , scientists say they uncovered strange debris on Mars that's unlike anything they've seen on the Red Planet before. The formations feature "unusual horizontal protrusions" and are located on rocks in Gale Crater, Mars. Scientists added that "fragments including what appears to be wheels, an axle, and a cratered debris field have been photographed in another Gale Crater location." Publisher: The US Sun Date: 2023-07-24T20:11:16 00:00 Author: https www facebook com thesunstuff Twitter: @thesun Reference: (Read more) Visit Source