Click Here to Read: Scientists Say They’ve Found the Largest Asteroid Impact Crater Hiding in Plain Sight: They believe they’ve discovered what time and erosion have concealed. BY Tim Newcom on the Popular Mechanics website on September 1, 2023.
New South Wales in Australia, Image: TUBS Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Click Here to Read: Russia and India are landing on the moon next week: Here’s what you need to know by Geoff Brumfiel on the NPR website on August 19, 2023
Click Here to Read: Russia’s Luna-25 spacecraft crashes into the moon, ending its bid to reach the lunar south pole on the AP website on August 20, 2023.
L3 lunar lander. The flat, downward-facing face (left) of the ovoid pressure cabin holds the round viewport (not visible). The Kontakt system passive unit is at cabin top, and two landing radar booms extend at left and right. Nozzles of two solid-fueled hold-down rockets are visible at the tops of the legs, near the bases of the radar booms. Note that this is an earlier model than the one that crashed in August 2023. Image:
Click Here to Read: Russia and India are landing on the moon next week: Here’s what you need to know by Geoff Brumfiel on the NPR website on August 19, 2023
Click Here to Read: Russia’s Luna-25 spacecraft crashes into the moon, ending its bid to reach the lunar south pole on the AP website on August 20, 2023.
L3 lunar lander. Note that this is an earlier model than the one that crashed in August 2023. Image: http://ston.jsc.nasa.gov/collections/TRS/_techrep/RP1357.pdf . Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Click Here to Read: 12 facts about space that will rock your world: We live in a strange Solar System By Xavier Piedra and Dennis Green on the Mashable website August 14, 2023
Artist’s illustration of an ‘isolated neutron star’ — one without associated supernova remnants, binary companions or radio pulsations. Image: Casey Reed – Penn State University NASA. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
Click Here to Read: ‘Mindblowing’: how James Webb telescope’s snapshots of infant universe transformed astronomy. Light from ancient galaxies took more than 13bn years to reach Nasa’s £6.8bn James Webb probe and have provided scientists with stunning images by Robin McKie on the Guardian website on July 15, 2023.
Antares and Rho Ophiuchi Image: Adam Block/Steward Observatory/University of Arizona Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
