A NASA informou que a espaçonave Psyche realizou com sucesso um sobrevoo próximo a Marte, aproveitando a gravidade do planeta para direcionar sua trajetória rumo ao asteroide Psyche, que fica no cinturão de asteroides entre Marte e Júpiter.
A NASA informou que a espaçonave Psyche realizou com sucesso um sobrevoo próximo a Marte, aproveitando a gravidade do planeta para direcionar sua trajetória rumo ao asteroide Psyche, que fica no cinturão de asteroides entre Marte e Júpiter.
Good Morning, all,
excuse my curiosity, but have you ever had trouble freeing a stuck drill bit?
Now imagine if your drill is > 300 million km distant:
https://youtu.be/ztB7lgMxr_g?si=YYnyY5XcTL5c-ZV_
And look what crawled out from under that Martian rock...
Nothing.
https://youtu.be/_Cxb56lGR38?si=ySXBOK7waqqRairm
Have an enjoyable (and sunny) Bank Holiday
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#NASA #JPL #MarsRover #Curiosity
#UnmannedSpace #PlanetaryGeology

A Probe Took Incredible Pictures of Mars on Its Way to a Far-Off Asteroid
🌍 NASA has ended data collection of the AWE experiment on the ISS. Over 30 months, the instrument captured more than 80 million infrared images of atmospheric gravity waves. The dataset will be analysed to improve space weather forecasts. (May 21, 2026)
🔗 https://phys.org/news/2026-05-nasa-awe-instrument-mission-earth.html

On May 21, ground controllers powered down NASA's AWE (Atmospheric Waves Experiment) instrument, bringing the data collection phase of the mission to a successful and scheduled end, surpassing its planned two-year mission.
🚀 NASA Citizen Science milestone: more than 650 volunteers have now co-authored peer-reviewed papers with NASA scientists. Citizen scientists helped find comets, brown dwarfs and gamma-ray bursts in space telescope data. (May 5, 2026)
Live feed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwXgcTc8oY8
Current location: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=-51.3902&mlon=-48.9844&zoom=2


Around 13 November in 2026, Voyager 1 will be one light-day from Earth. A light-day is the distance light travels in a vacuum in 24 hours.