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...
June 2015
Lunar Mission One: crowdfunding endeavour and drilling on the Moon
... and its Moon and learn more about how the late heavy bombardment (that produced the craters on the Moon) shaped the history of our planet. We aim to pave the way for future lunar infrastructure...
June 2015
Finding asteroids before they find us
... objects and mapping the trajectories of asteroids to see if any could have our name on them. A recurrence of Meteor Crater, Arizona, is what the B612 Foundation hopes to avoid. “We’ve been given a gift, and the gift is that we have...
