NASA's space helicopter lands on Mars

SciTech
23 January, 2022

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Ocean on Saturn Moon Mimas ?

Scientists at Southwest Research Institute (USA) recently published a file study in the journal Icarus, where they suggested that Mimas, one of Saturn’s moons, liquid inner perimeter. “If Mimas has an ocean, it represents a new class of ‘ghost’ small ocean worlds,” He said Alyssa Roden, lead author of the study and icy satellite geophysicist.  Sunday Vision

NASA’s space helicopter lands on Mars

Rough weather conditions have grounded a helicopter fight for the first time on another planet, NASA says. The space agency had planned to fly its Ingenuity helicopter over the Martian surface on January 5, before inclement weather forced them to abandon plans. NASA’s satellite, the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, captured an image above the red planet showing a large regional dust cloud stretching from the southern to northern hemispheres. It covered the area where NASA’s Perseverance Rover – the craft that transported Ingenuity – is operating.  Mirror

James Webb Space Telescope will slip into its parking orbit

Thirty days outbound from Earth, the James Webb Space Telescope will slip into its parking orbit a million miles away Monday, an ideal spot to scan the heavens in search of faint infrared light from the first generation of stars and galaxies.Scientists and engineers now have to turn the $10 billion Webb into a functioning telescope, precisely aligning its 18 primary mirror segments so they work together as a single 21.3-foot-wide mirror, by far the largest ever launched.. Spaceflightnow

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