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In a recent study published in National Science Review, a team of researchers led by the China University of Geosciences discuss direct evidence of an ancient ocean and its shoreline that existed in the northern hemisphere of Mars during the Hesperian Period, or more than 3 billion years ago. This finding is based on data collected by the China National ...

Launched on April 14, 2023, the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice; formerly known as JUICE) spacecraft has finally completed the unfurling of its solar panel arrays and plethora of booms, probes, and antennae while en route to the solar system’s largest planet. However, Juice’s first six weeks in space haven’t been so smooth, as its Radar ...

The European Space Agency’s latest third generation Meteosat-I 1 weather satellite shows its stuff, with more to come. You’ve never seen the Earth and its complex weather systems like this. The European Space Agency (ESA) recently unveiled views from their latest weather satellite in geostationary (GEO) orbit, Meteosat Third Generation Imager-1 (MTG-I 1). MTG-I 1 promises to revolutionize crucial full-disk ...

If AI does not lead venture out of its current slowdown, perhaps nothing will. A day after investors flooded $700 million into two AI startups — Builder.ai and Anthropic — Turkey-based AI marketing platform Insider locked up another $105 million. Insider CEO and co-founder Hande Cilingir told Bloomberg the company’s valuation had increased “very much closer to $2 billion.” The ...

Image of the Interact Rover, one of the remote-operated vehicles used in the Surface Avatar experiments. Credit – ESA The European Space Agency has been hosting a series of robotic teleoperation experiments where an astronaut abroad the ISS controls a robot back on the ground. We’ve previously reported on some of their successes. Now it’s time for the next round ...

NOIRLab Photo Release: “Radiant Protostars and Shadowy Clouds Clash in Stellar Nursery” noirlab2313 (2023) There are some astronomical images that capture rapturous beauty, with their brilliant colors and interplay of shadow and light. A beautiful image can be enough to stir the soul, but in astronomy they often also have a story to tell. An example of this can be ...

A lot has changed since the last Space Age. Unlike the days of Sputnik, Vostok, Mercury, and Apollo, the current era is not defined by two superpowers constantly vying for dominance and one-upmanship. More than ever, international cooperation is the name of the game, with space agencies coming together to advance common exploration and science goals. Similarly, there is the ...

JUICE is having problems extending its radar antenna. Astronomers watch a star eat its planet. A design for a space station with artificial gravity. JUICE Has Problems ESA’s Jupiter Ice Moons Explorer spacecraft is on its way to the Jovian System, where it’ll be mapping out several of its icy moons. Unfortunately, a critical antenna has failed to deploy. The ...

The Zhurong Rover has sat unmoving and unresponsive on Mars since May 20th, 2022, when one of the planet’s infamous dust storms forced the science team to switch the rover to hibernation mode. It was expected to wake in late December, but has yet to show any signs of activity. Last week, the Rover’s chief designer, Zhang Rongqiao, offered an ...

The Rideshare Killer a horror/thriller feature film that explores some of the potential risks of using ridesharing services, has just become the first “every frame minted” (EFM) film. The producers minted all 119,170 frames of the feature film into individual 1-of-1 NFTs on the Polygon Blockchain. With nearly 120,000 individual NFTs minted, The Rideshare Killer offers horror fans a unique ...