CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA has lost contact with a spacecraft that has orbited Mars for more than a decade.
Maven abruptly stopped communicating to ground stations over the weekend. NASA said this week that it was…
Category: 7. Science
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25 Years of Space Station Technology Driving Exploration
NASA and its partners have supported humans continuously living and working in space since November 2000. After 25 years of habitation, the International Space Station continues to be a proving ground for technology that powers NASA’s Artemis…
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NASA loses contact with its Maven spacecraft orbiting Mars for the past decade
This combination of ultraviolet spectrum images provided by NASA shows atmospheric features of the planet Mars in July 2022, left, during the southern hemisphere’s summer season, and the planet’s northern hemisphere in January 2023 after Mars…
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Bacteria-dyed fabric set to spotlight radiation patterns in orbit
A striking new collaboration between Scottish scientists and a fashion designer is taking bacteria-based dyes into space, hoping to turn colour-changing fabrics into a powerful, low-tech radiation warning system.
The team has engineered…
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Octopus-inspired robot can change color, grab objects
cuttlefish demonstrates natural camouflage (top), inspiring KIST’s OCTOID soft robot (bottom), which uses photonic crystal polymers to shift colors from blue to green to orange in response to electrical signals. Courtesy of KIST.
A research…
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New Results from the JWST Suggest that TRAPPIST-1e Might Have a Methane Atmosphere, Though Caution is Advised
In 2017, astronomers using the TRAnsiting Planets and PlanetesImals Small Telescope (TRAPPIST) in Chile and NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope confirmed the presence of seven rocky planets orbiting TRAPPIST-1, an M-type red dwarf star…
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New circoviruses discovered in pilot whales and orcas from the North Atlantic
A collaborative team of researchers (that includes students and senior researchers at Arizona State University (ASU), Coastal Carolina University, The University of the South in the US…
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Shedding new light on the tiny bubbles sending signals between cells
COLUMBUS, Ohio – The tiny bubbles that carry signals between cells throughout the body were discovered decades ago, but precisely what they contain and how their cargo affects recipient cells is still largely a…
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