The Moon Is Now Officially A Threatened Cultural Site
In a twist that feels straight out of a sci-fi novel, the moon has been officially added to a list of threatened heritage sites, thanks
In a twist that feels straight out of a sci-fi novel, the moon has been officially added to a list of threatened heritage sites, thanks
NASA is training a robot dog to teach it how to walk on the surface of the moon. The ultimate objective of the robot is to explore the Moon’s surface and potentially other celestial bodies in the future.
Scientists have discovered a key ingredient for life in Saturn’s small moon named Enceladus. The team of researchers led by Dr. Christopher Glein, discovered phosphorus in the form of phosphate in water erupting from the surface of the moon. The researchers said the phosphate discovered is hundred times higher than the quantity found in earth’s oceans.
To scientists, the Mars venture has become what the New World was to Europeans 600 years ago. For decades scientists have been planning out strategies to build permanent human colonies on Mars. But the opponents of colonizing Mars have a point too. A Greek American space expert, Dr Stamatios Krimigis has said that colonizing Mars is almost impossible, at least for the next 200 years.
Global warming has increasingly become realized to be a global issue in the last few decades. Different mechanisms have been developed to counter the phenomenon. An interesting new study found that global warming can be reduced by firing moon dust into space. The moon dust could solve the problem of continuous temperature rise.
NASA scientists have created a replica of the moon in their lab, which they state precisely mimics the real moon in all aspects. The space agency mentions that the ultra-realistic lighting and terrain in the lab model accurately depict the lunar environment.
On Friday, November 25, 2022, NASA Artemis I officially traveled further than any spacecraft that will carry humans by entering a distant retrograde orbit.
China is advancing forward like no other country on the planet. The aim of it is to set up lunar research centers by 2028. China will establish a lunar research station, eight years earlier than anticipated. The landing mission included running scientific tests like 3D printing lunar dust, followed by others in near future.
This question is the most mysterious billion-dollar question. Humans have so far looked into the length and breadth of the universe and still couldn’t come up with a sufficient answer to the question. The question still remains a mystery, but one shouldn’t shy away from probing more.
As NASA’s Artemis 1 mission keeps getting delayed, SpaceX plans to launch a separate mission apart from NASA to the moon a few days apart from the next planned Artemis launch.
As NASA get prepared for their next upcoming moon mission, Artemis, they are using the desert in Arizona to practice their landings, moonwalks, and driving their new moon rovers.
On Monday, August 29, 2022, NASA is all set to launch the uncrewed Artemis 1 mission going back to the moon after 50 years since the Apollo mission.
