“Do you move forward when you fart in space?”
This guy knows the answer.
No more Commercial Space Astronaut Wings after this year because FAA has been handing them out like candy
The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Rosalind Franklin ExoMars rover has successfully completed a high-altitude drop test.
The mission has been beset by delays. A launch over the July-August window was scrubbed as mission managers faced up to problems including torn parachutes. In earlier tests, drops from a helicopter appeared to go well, but a release from a high-altitude balloon did not. As one might imagine, the parachute is a critical bit of hardware, the failure of which could result in the rover being smashed to pieces on impact.
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Humans haven’t been on the Moon for 49 years but samples they took continue to provide new discoveries.
New analysis of a rock sample taken during Apollo 17, which touched down in late 1972, suggest the history of the Moon is more complex than previously thought, according to authors of a report in Nature Communications .
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And the saga continues…
ETA:
Confirmed: James Webb Space Telescope team plans launch for this Xmas Eve after data cable fix
“ In their new study, the researchers modeled a set of chemical processes to show that if ammonia is indeed present, the gas would set off a cascade of chemical reactions that would neutralize surrounding droplets of sulfuric acid and could also explain most of the anomalies observed in Venus’ clouds. As for the source of ammonia itself, the authors propose that the most plausible explanation is of biological origin, rather than a nonbiological source such as lightning or volcanic eruptions.
As they write in their study, the chemistry suggests that “life could be making its own environment on Venus.”
This tantalizing new hypothesis is testable, and the researchers provide a list of chemical signatures for future missions to measure in Venus’ clouds, to either confirm or contradict their idea.
“No life that we know of could survive in the Venus droplets,” says study co-author Sara Seager, the Class of 1941 Professor of Planetary Sciences in MIT’s Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (EAPS). “But the point is, maybe some life is there, and is modifying its environment so that it is livable.”
