by OGL News | May 11, 2024 | news-hub
NASA’s TIMED spacecraft came within 10 meters of a defunct Russian satellite in February, narrowly avoiding a collision that would have created thousands of pieces of debris in low Earth orbit. Credit: NASA At about 1:30 am EST on Feb. 28, NASA’s Thermosphere...
by OGL News | May 5, 2024 | news-hub
An illustration of the various elements of the overall Mars Sample Return effort. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech WASHINGTON — NASA will seek “out of the box” ideas in a bid to reduce the costs and shorten the schedule for returning samples from Mars. In an April 15...
by OGL News | May 4, 2024 | news-hub
A photo montage showing sample tubes shortly after they were deposited onto the surface by NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover. The tubes are a backup collection of rock cores and regolith that could be recovered in the future by the Mars Sample Return campaign, the...
by OGL News | May 3, 2024 | news-hub
Artist’s illustration of space junk orbiting Earth. (Image credit: NASA) In late March, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) announced that one of its satellite missions “practically left zero debris in orbit” after a spent rocket stage was...
by OGL News | May 2, 2024 | news-hub
The galaxy NGC 4383 evolves as gas flows from its core at tremendous speeds. (Image credit: ESO/A. Watts et al.) Tremendous explosions in a galaxy close to the Milky Way are pouring material equivalent to around 50 million suns into its surroundings. Astronomers...
by OGL News | May 1, 2024 | news-hub
The Great Barrier Reef, imaged by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer on NASA’s Terra satellite on Aug. 8, 2004. (Image credit: Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC) Multiple major coral reefs around the world are getting paler due...
