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Perseverance rover celebrates 1,000 Mars days on the Red Planet

Perseverance rover celebrates 1,000 sols on Mars | Space Quiz! On Mars, how long is a sol? | Blue Origin will return to flight with uncrewed mission

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December 13, 2023

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Perseverance rover celebrates 1,000 sols on Mars

(NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS)

Perseverance and its tiny robotic partner, the Ingenuity helicopter, landed inside Mars' Jezero Crater on Feb. 18, 2021. Ever since, the big rover has been hunting for signs of ancient Mars life on the floor of the 28-mile-wide (45 kilometers) Jezero, which is a great place to do such work. Now, the car-sized Perseverance has now been exploring its exotic environs for 1,000 Mars days, or sols.

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Space Quiz! On Mars, how long is a sol?

Learn the answer here!

Blue Origin will return to flight with uncrewed mission

(Blue Origin)

Blue Origin will end its 15-month spaceflight hiatus next week, if all goes according to plan. The company, which was founded by Amazon's Jeff Bezos, hasn't flown since its New Shepard suborbital vehicle suffered an anomaly during an uncrewed research flight on Sept. 12, 2022. But that long drought is about to end.

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Space Deal of the Day

Christmas camera deal: $900 off Canon EOS R5

(Canon, Future)

Save $900 in this Christmas holiday Canon camera deal. The camera (ranked as the best Canon camera in our Best cameras guide) was reduced by $500 for Amazon Prime Day and then we saw this crash down another $400 to its lowest-ever price at $2999 during Black Friday and Cyber Monday, but it's still going!

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Skywatching

The Geminid meteor shower peaks tonight!

(Costfoto/Future Publishing via Getty Images)

For those who are hoping to get a view of the peak of the Geminid meteor shower overnight tonight, it appears that about half of the contiguous (48) states will have clear, starry skies - a perfect backdrop for watching this very best of the year's principal meteor displays.

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Spaceflight

NASA assembling giant Artemis 2 moon rocket

(NASA)

Parts of the two solid rocket boosters that will be strapped to the SLS core stage of Artemis 2 are being processed at NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida, the site from which the mission will launch.

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Science & Astronomy

Intergalactic 'stream of stars' is the 1st of its kind

(William Herschel Telescope/Román et al.)

Astronomers have accidentally discovered the first known intergalactic trail of stars. The gigantic "stellar stream," which is around 10 times longer than the Milky Way, suggests that more of these structures could be lurking in deep space, a new study reveals.

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Technology

Watch Japanese startup test engine run on cow-dung

(Interstellar Technologies Inc.)

A Japanese space startup has taken a big step toward developing its first orbital rocket - which will be powered by gas from cow dung. Interstellar Technologies Inc. recently performed a combustion chamber static fire test at Japan's Hokkaido Spaceport as part of the development of the Cosmos engine for its Zero rocket.

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Star Trek

'Star Trek: Discovery' Season 5 snippet

(Paramount Plus)

The new footage was shown at the 2023 São Paulo Comic Con in Brazil, since there's no major U.S. events left in the calendar before the air date of April 2023.

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