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The OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Successfully Returns Asteroid Samples to Earth – CNN Indonesia

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The OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Successfully Returns Asteroid Samples to Earth – CNN Indonesia

CNN Indonesia Monday, 25 Sep 2023 06:01 IWST The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft successfully sent asteroid samples to Earth via capsule. (NASA) Jakarta, CNN Indonesia — After traveling billions of km with a space probe OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification and Security – Regolith Explorer) NASArock and dust samples from the Asteroid Bennu successfully reached Earth. … Read more

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Successfully Penetrates Sun Storm and Studies Coronal Mass Ejections

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NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Successfully Penetrates Sun Storm and Studies Coronal Mass Ejections

CNN Indonesia Tuesday, 19 Sep 2023 18:05 IWST NASA spacecraft penetrates solar storm. (parkersolarprobe.jhuapl.edu) Jakarta, CNN Indonesia — The US Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Parker Solar Probe (NASA) became the first spacecraft to successfully penetrate Sun storm and researching coronal mass ejections (CME). The spacecraft, which launched in August 2018, was exposed to CME for … Read more

BepiColombo Mission: A Comprehensive Study of Mercury’s Magnetic Field, Magnetosphere, and Surface Structure

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BepiColombo Mission: A Comprehensive Study of Mercury’s Magnetic Field, Magnetosphere, and Surface Structure

BepiColumbo, a joint project of the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Japanese Space Agency (JAXA), recently approached the surface of Mercury, coming within just 236 kilometers of the planet. The mission, which consists of three satellites – the Mercury Transfer Module (MTM), the Mercury Planetary Orbiter (MPO), and the Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter (MIO) – … Read more

“James Webb Space Telescope Captures Clearest Image of Uranus’ Rings Yet”

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“James Webb Space Telescope Captures Clearest Image of Uranus’ Rings Yet”

Dramatic rings glowing around a blue-white ball – that’s how one could describe the image released on Thursday taken by the James Webb Space Telescope that captures Uranus. This is one of the few images of the planet that shows even the faintest of the rings, and it is also the clearest image of them … Read more