This article is a helpful resource for Deep Space Diary Activity 3.4: Pack Your Payload. Engineers working on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have successfully folded and packed its sunshield for its upcoming million-mile (roughly 1.5 million kilometer) journey, which begins later this year. The sunshield — a five-layer, diamond-shaped […]
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Read more →For World Soil Day we wanted to find out if the soil on Mars was really red and what makes it look that way.
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Read more →Saturday 18th June is the big day when Tim Peake returns to Earth after six months on the International Space Station. Tim will return in a Soyuz capsule, along with crewmates Yuri Malenchenko and Tim Kopra. He’s due to land in Kazakhstan at 10.15am BST.
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