22 November 2021
NASA's asteroid impact mission due to launch Wednesday
...the impact and material kicked up from the moonlet and will attempt to photograph the crater caused by the impact through the haze of any ejecta that may get in the...and its internal structure, as well as the size and shape of the crater left by DART.
29 March 2018
Northern Arizona Space Training
...chapters that cover the programme from training in Meteor Crater to exploring the Moon itself; in between, we ... astronauts hiking through Grand Canyon, explosives engineers creating mock crater fields and astronomers mapping the Moon. We even discover...
14 February 2019
NASA says a final goodbye to Opportunity
...days earlier in the 103-mile-wide (166-kilometer-wide) Gusev Crater on the other side of Mars. Spirit logged almost 5 miles... as steep as 32-degrees (an off-Earth record), probe crater floors, summit hills and traverse possible dry riverbeds. Its final...
03 December 2019
Found! The remains of India's Vikram Lander are identified
... 22.7840°E, 834 m elevation) which showed the impact crater itself, dark ejecta rays and light lines marking the ... 84° incidence angle). The November mosaic shows best the impact crater, ray and extensive debris field. The three largest pieces of...
01 January 2020
NASA Apollo 11 Lunar Lander kit
... to build this when a single piece of accurately moulded plastic would have done the job?’ But as I constructed a crater – in typical Lego pixelated style – I realised that this should be considered a 3D puzzle rather than a model kit (à la Airfix...
December 2014
MAVEN and the evolution of Mars
... far enough from the Sun to have retained at least their heavier constituents like carbon dioxide. Endeavour Crater, with Pillinger Point in the foreground, as viewed in false colour by NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity The story...
