09 September 2020
China's reusable spacecraft returns to Earth, deploys unknown object before deorbiting
The Chinese reusable experimental spaceship has successfully returned to Earth having spent two days in low-Earth orbit (LEO), Chinese news agency Xinhua reported on Sunday. The reusable spaceship was launched last week on a Long ...
20 May 2016
Evidence for massive Tsunamis found on Mars
... in astronomy and principal investigator at the Center of Astrobiology, Madrid. Using a suite of instruments on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, namely the CTX (Context Camera), High Resolution Imaging System Experiment (HiRISE) images and the Mars...
11 November 2016
Beagle 2 Mars probe came close to success
... them for signs of organic molecules associated with life in a miniaturised on-board laboratory. In 2014, Nasa's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) found Beagle 2 on the Martian surface. The spacecraft took pictures which seemed to indicate that the...
18 January 2019
Asteroid impacts on the increase since the age of the dinosaurs
...radiometer instrument, known as Diviner, aboard NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO). Diviner showed the team that the surrounding, ... years ago in the main asteroid belt (between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter) created debris that has finally...
13 May 2019
New study suggests Moon is still tectonically active
...quakes with the help of data from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO). Moonquakes, like the recent marsquakes that were recorded ...forces; the to-ing an fro-ing the Moon experiences as it orbits the Earth. The team also go on to say that the ...
27 May 2019
Third largest water reservoir on Mars found
... gathered by the Shallow Radar (SHARAD) on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) that can peek up to 2.5 kilometres (1.5 miles) ...taken with the HiRISE camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, was adjusted to show water ice as light-colored...
