'A City on Mars' is a reality check for anyone dreaming about life on the Red Planet

Strange moon of asteroid Dinkinesh is weirder than thought | Space Quiz! How many flights has NASA's Ingenuity helicopter completed on Mars? | 'A City on Mars' reality check for dreams of living off Earth Created for ceo.studentlike.spuniv@blogger.com |  Web Version November 8, 2023 CONNECT WITH SPACE.COM       Something amazing every day. SIGN UP ⋅   WEBSITE   The Launchpad Strange moon of asteroid Dinkinesh is weirder than thought (NASA/Goddard/SwRI/Johns Hopkins APL) On Nov. 2, project scientists with the Lucy mission announced the first flyby came with a surprise: Dinkinesh, or 'Dinky,' appears to be not one asteroid, but two. Lucy was able to observe that Dinkinesh is a binary system, meaning there is a small natural satellite in orbit around it. Full Story: Space (11/7)  Space Quiz! How many flights has NASA's Ingenuity helicopter completed on Mars? Learn the answer here! 32 46 66 87 'A City on Mars' reality check for dreams of living off Earth (Penguin Random House / Zach Weinersmith) It wasn't until maybe a year before we were done writing - and we wrote for four years - that we decided this book is actually about why space settlements aren't coming soon. Full Story: Space (11/8)  Space Deal of the Day Early Black Friday deal 56% off Celestron AstroMaster 90AZ (Celestron) You can save 55% on Celestron's AstroMaster 90AZ when you get this early Black Friday telescope deal from Amazon - that's $180 off. Full Story: Space (11/7)  Skywatching Venus and crescent moon light up the morning sky Nov. 9 (Chris Vaughan/Starry Night) The two brightest objects in the night sky - dazzling Venus and a lovely waning crescent moon - will be the chief celestial attraction in the predawn sky on Thursday, Nov. 9. Full Story: Space (11/8)  Spaceflight Europe's 1st continental spaceport is open for business (ISAR Aerospace) The first spaceport in continental Europe is operational. The opening of Andøya Spaceport is an important milestone in the journey of Isar Aerospace to the launchpad. It will be the starting point for the company's first test flight of its two-stage launch vehicle, Spectrum. Full Story: Space (11/7)  SpaceX SpaceX fishes payload fairing out the sea at sunrise (SpaceX) "SpaceX team aboard the recovery vessel Doug in the Atlantic securing a payload fairing half, which has supported 13 missions to date, after last night's Starlink launch from Florida," the company wrote in a post on X. Full Story: Space (11/7)  Search for Life Ingenuity Mars helicopter flies on back-to-back days (NASA/JPL-Caltech) The 4-pound (1.8 kilograms) Ingenuity stayed aloft that day for 48 seconds, covering 23 feet (7 meters) of Mars ground in the process. Then, the rotorcraft was at it again on Nov. 3 with an even briefer sortie: It lasted 23 seconds and involved a horizontal movement of just 2 feet (0.6 m), according to the mission's flight log. Full Story: Space (11/7)  Entertainment Book excerpt: 'A City on Mars' (Penguin Random House / Zach Weinersmith) "Elon Musk says we'll have boots on Mars in 2029 and a million-person city is possible by twenty or thirty years later. We'll assume he's got space babies worked out for now so we can deal with a bigger problem: space sucks." Full Story: Space (11/8)    Sign Up  |    Update Profile  |    Unsubscribe Privacy Policy  |    Cookies Policy  |    Terms and Conditions CONTACT US: FEEDBACK  |    ADVERTISE Future US LLC © Full 7th Floor, 130 West 42nd Street, New York, NY, 10036