The AFP agency wrote that there are about seven thousand Trojans, as the asteroids orbiting Jupiter are called. They orbit the Sun in two groups, one in front of and the other behind Jupiter. “What is most surprising about the Trojans is how they differ from each other, especially in color – some are gray, … Read more
NASA launched an unprecedented mission this Saturday (16) to study Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids, two large clumps of space rock that scientists believe are remnants of material that formed outer planets in the Solar System. The space probe, nicknamed Lucy and packed inside a special cargo pod, according to news reported by Brazil agency, took off … Read more
Observations of this probe showed that Enceladus has an inner liquid ocean. And an analysis of the Cassini data found that clouds of water ice were hovering over its south pole. It comes from the so-called cryovolcanism – ice is ejected by dozens of geysers, caused by hydrothermal vents at the bottom of the ocean. … Read more
The European Space Agency (ESA) has selected the spacecraft it intends to send to Venus in the early 1930s. The chosen EnVision apparatus will examine the planet from the core to the upper atmosphere to find out how and why Venus and Earth evolved so differently, the agency announced on its website on Thursday. ESA … Read more
“In the first phase, NASA is pushing a policy that all data that is collected is freely available. So anyone on the planet has the opportunity to download photos of chemical rock measurements. Everything that the probe finds out will sooner or later appear on the Internet, “Brož pointed out. According to the scientist, the … Read more
Last week, the United Arab Emirates’ Amal spacecraft was first launched into orbit around Mars on Wednesday, which will explore the planet only from a height. The next day, the Chinese Tian-Wen spacecraft did the same, which will also launch a reconnaissance vehicle to the surface in May. Although Perseverance will use the experience of … Read more
The capsule will be sought by several helicopters as well as ground teams. However, the area is relatively well known because it served as the landing site of the Chinese spaceship Shenzhou. The capsule is expected to have transported about two kilograms of lunar rock to Earth. The probe obtained the samples both by drilling … Read more