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This tiny moon rover has a leg up on traditional spacecraft designs

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August 16, 2022

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This tiny moon rover has a leg up on traditional spacecraft designs

(European Space Agency)

Named after the Dutch phrase for "six-legged," Lunar Zebro will indeed have six legs instead of wheels, allowing it to climb taller obstacles on the moon than its wheeled counterparts can overcome.

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NASA film traces Artemis 1 rocket's 'Path to the Pad' as mission stack rolls out today

(NASA/Kim Shiflett)

All eyes will be trained on the Kennedy Space Center in Florida today as NASA's magnificent Artemis 1 rocket and Orion capsule trot out to Launch Complex 39B.

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Black hole 'superradiance' phenomenon may aid quest for dark matter

(ajijchan via Getty Images)

Black holes affect their environments in interesting, complicated ways. One of those ways leads to a process called superradiance, in which a black hole boosts any nearby light into intense levels of energy.

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POLL QUESTION:

NASA will use its massive Crawler-transporter 2 (CT-2) to roll out the Artemis 1 rocket and Orion capsule to Launch Complex 39B on Tuesday (Aug. 16). What is the top speed of Crawler-transporter 2 when fully-loaded?

Learn the answer here!

3.2 feet per hour (1 meter per hour)

1 mile per hour (1.6 kilometers per hour)

5 miles per hour (8 kilometers per hour)

300 feet per hour (91 meters per hour)

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Skywatching

Saturn is at opposition. See it shine at its best for 2022 in a free webcast tonight.

(Virtual Telescope Project)

The ringed planet Saturn is often hailed as the jewel of the solar system and you have a chance to see why in a free webcast tonight.

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Science & Astronomy

'Cannibal' solar bursts may bring auroras as far south as New York

(Helioviewer)

CME cannibalization occurs when the sun launches two eruptions within a short period of time, with the second of the two being more energetic, and therefore faster than the first.

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Giant meteorite strikes in Earth's distant history may have helped form continents

(NASA/Don Davis)

Tiny crystals of zircon could be geological evidence that the continents were born at meteor impact sites.

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Meteorites that reach the Earth fall from asteroid butts

(Erik Simonsen/Getty Images)

Scientists break down how meteors break up. Meteorites, it seems, come from their rear end.

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Spaceflight

Mars explorers could harvest oxygen from the atmosphere using plasma

(NASA/JPL-Caltech)

An international team of researchers has devised a plasma-based approach to producing oxygen on Mars to support exploration.

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Technology

China's X-ray observatory detects strongest magnetic field ever recorded

(CASC)

A Chinese X-ray telescope has detected the strongest-ever magnetic field recorded by making observations of a rapidly-spinning neutron star, or magnetar.

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