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What does NASA’s Deep Space Network do? - All About Space
The Deep Space Network is NASA’s international array of giant radio antennas, which is capable of supporting spacecraft on interplanetary missions as well as those that are put in orbit around Earth. The array is also able to make astronomical observations of our Solar System and the larger universe using radar and radio wavelengths.
Heroes of Space: Sally Ride
In 1986, following the loss of Space Shuttle Challenger, Ride served as part of the investigation committee that looked into the cause of the accident. She also went on to serve on the panel investigating the Columbia disaster in 2003, making her the only person to serve on both investigation teams.
Another crater could have been found under Greenland ice
Feb 12, 2019 · “Helping identify one large impact crater beneath the ice was already very exciting, but now it looked like there could be two of them.” To confirm his suspicion about the possible presence of a second impact crater, MacGregor studied the raw radar images that are used to map the topography of the bedrock beneath the ice, including those ...
Kepler survey shows a gap in the exoplanet family tree - All About …
Jun 20, 2017 · NASA’s space telescope has also identified 219 new planet candidates. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech As NASA’s Kepler space telescope finishes its final catalogue of the Cygnus constellation’s section of the sky, astronomers have now classified two distinct groups of exoplanets based on their size: rocky/super-Earth-like planets and mini ...
Long after historic flybys, NASA’s New Horizons is still pioneering ...
Sep 11, 2019 · The team behind the mission doesn’t expect to see anything particularly exciting in the calibration data, Weaver said. But that’s the entire point. New Horizons has hurtled through space for more than 13 years, and a glitch could occur at any time; calibration observations are designed to alert scientists if one does.
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Oct 26, 2016 · The diamond planet is one of five planets orbiting a sun-like star, and being a mere 40 light years from Earth it is even visible to the naked eye! But alas, we can’t give you a planet made entirely of diamond (yet), but let’s look at what we can give you, shall we?
Jupiter moon’s ‘radiation shower’ could help in hunt for life
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The strange behaviour of black holes has become somewhat less mysterious recently, according to NASA’s Swift spacecraft and NuSTAR satellite
Potentially Habitable
Deep Space Two potentially habitable planets discovered just 12 light years away Four exoplanets have been discovered orbiting Sun-like star tau Ceti, two of them are super-Earths residing in the Goldilocks zone