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How Scientists Are Preparing for Apophis's Unnervingly Close Brush With Earth
Gizmodo via Yahoo News· 2 days agoIn about five years’ time, a potentially hazardous asteroid will swing by Earth at an eerily close...
NASA's Deep Space Optical Communications demonstration transmits data over 140 million miles
Phys.org· 1 day agoThis achievement provides a glimpse into how spacecraft could use optical communications in the...
NASA-Led Study Provides New Global Accounting of Earth’s Rivers - NASA
NASA· 12 hours agoThe novel approach to estimating river water storage and discharge also identifies regions marked by...
The Space Review: The ongoing triumph of Ingenuity
The Space Review· 5 days agoAt the time, my wife worked as part of the “Mars Mafia” at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory: a wonderful job that meant she got to bring intriguing ideas...
NASA’s Optical Comms Demo Transmits Data Over 140 Million Miles - NASA
NASA· 2 days agoNASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications experiment also interfaced with the Psyche spacecraft’s...
The reasons why numbers go on forever
Astronomy Magazine· 12 hours agoThe Greeks, starting with Pythagoras, were the first to study numbers for their own sake, rather than viewing them as just counting tools. By 500 BCE,...
Ingenuity’s Final Transmission: NASA’s Mars Helicopter Team Says Goodbye … for Now
SciTechDaily· 5 days agoThe final downlink shift by the Ingenuity team was a time to reflect on a highly successful mission...
Scientists Discover Mysterious Ecosystem Beneath Earth's Driest Desert
Gizmodo via Yahoo News· 15 hours agoThe Atacama Desert—an arid, unpopulated swath of northern Chile that is home to some of the most...
Juno reveals 'smooth as glass' lava lake on Jupiter's moon, Io
The Weather Network via Yahoo News· 2 days agoThe brightness of the feature is caused by sunlight reflecting off the solid lava surface, in the...
NASA’s CloudSat Ends Mission Peering Into the Heart of Clouds - NASA
NASA· 4 days agoOver the course of nearly two decades, its powerful radar provided never-before-seen details of...