For World Soil Day we wanted to find out if the soil on Mars was really red and what makes it look that way.
Watch this 60 second video by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Education Department where they answer the most frequently asked questions about our planetary neighbour.
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 […]
Read more →In preparation for the ExoMars rover Mars landing, scientists are creating 3D models (called Digital Terrain Models, or DTM) of the terrain in Oxia Planum.
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