Friday, June 3, 2022

The Many Methods to Get to the Moon

06/03/2022

NEWS & FEATURES

The many methods to get to the Moon
SpaceX

There’s more than one way to make a lunar voyage.

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Scientists have grown plants in genuine lunar soil
UF/IFAS photo by Tyler Jones

For the first time in history, researchers have used a small sample of lunar regolith to sprout seeds. The results can tell us much about feeding humanity throughout the solar system.

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Scientists map out the future of solar system exploration
NASA/JPL-Caltech

A Mars sample return mission and launching a complex mission to Uranus are both top priorities, according to the recently released decadal survey for planetary science.

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NASA's InSight lander takes a final dusty selfie on Mars
NASA/JPL-Caltech

Though still hunting for marsquakes, the lander's power levels are diminishing thanks to the dust coating its solar panels.

Ask Astro: How do scientists weigh celestial objects?
ESA, NASA; Acknowledgement: A. Gal-Yam (Weizmann Institute of Science)

You can’t simply place a planet or galaxy on a scale to measure how heavy it is. How do scientists weigh celestial objects?

OBSERVING

The sky this week
catnthehat (Flickr)

Your daily digest of celestial events coming soon to a sky near you. Updated Friday morning at 9 A.M. Central.

PICTURE OF THE DAY

A good heart
Gary Opitz from Rochester, New York

The Heart Nebula, also known as IC 1805, is a star-forming region in the constellation Cassiopeia the Queen. It lies some 6,000 light-years away. Exposures for this image were taken through the same kinds of filters the Hubble Space Telescope uses.

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