About 21 results
Open links in new tab
  1. lander - All About Space

    This giant moon, 640 million kilometres (400 million miles) from Earth, has an icy surface and might be hiding a saltwater ocean underground, while its atmosphere bears tantalising hints of …

  2. New Horizons Update: Charon revealed as a colourful world with a ...

    Oct 2, 2015 · New Horizons has found Pluto’s largest moon Charon to be a world covered with mountains, canyons, landslides. Image Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI NASA’s New Horizons …

  3. NASA lander has detected its first Marsquake

    Apr 24, 2019 · InSight’s seismometer, which the lander placed on the planet’s surface on 19 December 2018, will enable scientists to gather similar data about Mars. By studying the deep …

  4. Film Review: First Man - spaceanswers.com

    The film does a fantastic job of sculpting the determination of the United States at the time to reach the Moon, the successes and, more importantly, the failures that led to this historic …

  5. FutureTech - spaceanswers.com

    This giant moon, 640 million kilometres (400 million miles) from Earth, has an icy surface and might be hiding a saltwater ocean underground, while its atmosphere bears tantalising hints of …

  6. New Horizons Update: New global maps of Pluto and Charon …

    Jul 11, 2018 · The rugged relief also indicates that Charon retains much of its original topography caused by its history of fracturing and surface disruption. The global image and topography …

  7. NASA announces finalists for next robotic mission to explore the …

    Dec 21, 2017 · These two missions are both robotic missions, and one aims to sample a comet and return those samples. The other is a drone-like rotorcraft concept, which will explore the …

  8. Heroes of Space: Carl Sagan

    Some of his major scientific achievements occurred in the Sixties, starting with his conclusion that Venus was a scorching world with a thick atmosphere, rather than a moderate Earth-like …

  9. ‘Oumuamua - spaceanswers.com

    A telescope orbiting the Moon could spy one interstellar visitor per year Such a mission would shed considerable light on our solar system’s population of interstellar objects

  10. Hayabusa probe - spaceanswers.com

    The probe was supposed to drop a lander, named Minerva, onto the surface. However, the lander missed the surface, and JAXA instead decided to land Hayabusa directly on the asteroid.