Friday, November 4, 2022

NASA is Testing a New Way to Crash Land on Mars

11/04/2022

NEWS & FEATURES

NASA is testing a new way to crash land on Mars
California Academy of Sciences

The U.S. space agency has safely landed spacecraft on Mars nine times. But now they're investigating whether crash landing could be the best way to reach the Red Planet.

Donna Elbert's work on planetary magnetic fields finally comes to light
Dianne Hofner Saphiere, Susan Elbert Steele, Joanne Elbert Kantner

As a human "computer" for a world-renowned scientist, Donna Elbert made great contributions that went largely unrecognized for decades. Not anymore.

InSight and MRO capture aftermath of a chilling martian impact
NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona

The impact excavated ice from beneath the martian surface and created one of the strongest marsquakes yet detected.

The Next Collection is...

The makers of Astronomy magazine present the November 2022 Space & Beyond Box theme...Stars! Subscribe today to get free shipping on this highly anticipated box, plus free shipping.

China and United Arab Emirates plan lunar rover mission
CNSA

The UAE-built rover would fly on China's Chang'e 7 lander, marking the first collaboration between the two space-faring nations.

Ask Astro: Why will the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies collide?
NASA; ESA; Z. Levay and R. van der Marel, STScI; T. Hallas; and A. Mellinger

If the accelerating expansion of the universe is driving galaxies away from each other, how is it that the Andromeda and Milky Way galaxies are on a collision course?

2023 Deep Space Mysteries Calendar┬а

OBSERVING

The sky this week
Nick Mischo (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

The Tarantula's web
Ron Brecher and Carlos Sagan, taken from Copiapó in the Atacama Desert, Chile

The expansive Tarantula Nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud is a region bursting with star formation and home to the star clusters NGC 2070 and 2060. This HaRGB image represents a total of 11.5 hours of exposure with a 4.2 inch refractor.

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