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NASA’s Insight Lander on Mars Spotted from Space!0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 14, 2018
NASA’s newly arrived Mars lander has been spotted by one its orbiting cousins.

By David Aragorn
Mars lander takes a selfie 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 14, 2018
After painstakingly swiveling the camera mounted on its robotic arm for a week, NASA’s InSight spacecraft, which landed last month on Mars, has completed its first photographic survey—of the sand-filled crater surrounding it and of itself, NASA announced today.

By David Aragorn
Stephen Curry says the U.S. never landed on the moon. NASA cries foul.0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 13, 2018
Until this precise moment in his nearly decade-long career, Stephen Curry has remained gleefully free of controversy. His Twitter profile includes a scriptural reference and also a hat tip to a spouse who has never appeared on “Basketball Wives.” His news conferences — essentially analyses of how he crushes the championship dreams of his NBA

By David Aragorn
Jupiter’s skies are peppered with electron streams, ammonia plumes, and massive storms 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 13, 2018
Scientists have long known that Jupiter is a stormy place. But since NASA’s Juno probe reached the solar system’s largest planet last July, they’ve found it to be a far more tempestuous place than they realized.

By David Aragorn
China’s Mission to the Farside of the Moon 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 12, 2018
China is going where no one has gone before–the farside of the Moon. At 2:23 am on Dec. 8th (local time in Sichuan province), a Long March 3B rocket blasted off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre, propelling a lander and rover toward the lunar farside. Zhou Kun photographed the launch: “I took the picture only

By David Aragorn
Virgin Galactic to attempt flight to space this week 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 12, 2018
VSS Unity, Virgin Galactic’s second SpaceShipTwo, near the apogee of its third powered flight July 26. Credit: Virgin Galactic

By David Aragorn
Evidence for carbon-rich surface on Ceres 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 12, 2018
Ceres offers insight into the synthesis, transport of organic matter in the inner solar system

By David Aragorn
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx finds signs of water on the asteroid Bennu 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 12, 2018
The craft will spend 2019 scoping out the best spot to grab a handful of space rock dust

By David Aragorn
Voyager 2 spacecraft enters interstellar space 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 11, 2018
It’s the second probe ever to exit the heliosphere

By David Aragorn
Chang’e-4 Lunar probe is on its way to the moon 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 11, 2018
Last week we talked about the Chinese Chang’e-4 lunar probe that China was set to launch to study the far side of the moon. The probe launched in the early hours of Saturday morning and that lunch went off without a hitch. China sent the probe towards the moon atop a Long March-3B rocket.

By David Aragorn