25 January 2017
"Extinct" meteorite challenges our understanding of how the solar system formed
... known as Österplana 065, was found by professor Birger Schmitz at Lund University in Sweden in a quarry outside of Lidköping. It was given the label "extinct" because it’s unusual mineralogy, which is different from all known groups of meteorites...
28 August 2017
Clockwork rover considered for future Venus mission
...; morse code. For this to work however, an orbiting spacecraft and the rover would have to communicate by way of pinging radar signals at one another in a method that is described as working like "stealth technology in reverse.” By reflecting radar...