Tag results for: Solar System
Dramatic images show a large satellite tumbling toward Earth | Tech Reader
The European Space Agency (ESA) has shared remarkable images showing one of its satellites in what it describes as a “tumbling descent.”
ESA’s European Remote Sensing 2 satellite (ERS-2)...
How to watch Intuitive Machines land Odysseus on the moon | Tech Reader
Intuitive Machines will this week attempt to become the first commercial company to achieve a soft landing on the moon. If it succeeds in successfully touching down its...
Relive Mars rover’s spectacular landing exactly 3 years ago | Tech Reader
It’s exactly three years since NASA’s rover, Perseverance, touched down on Mars in spectacular fashion.
With Curiosity and others having already reached the martian surface in earlier missions, Perseverance...
NASA has collected 121 grams of sample from asteroid Bennu | Tech Reader
When the OSIRIS-REx dropped a capsule in the Utah desert last year, it made headlines around the globe for returning NASA’s first sample of an asteroid to Earth....
One last orbit: how and why NASA kills its own spacecraft | Tech Reader
For more than a decade, NASA’s Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) mission has been searching the sky for near-Earth objects. Using its infrared vision, the spacecraft,...
NASA’s damaged Ingenuity aircraft spotted in Mars rover photo | Tech Reader
NASA’s Mars rover, Perseverance, has captured an image (above) showing the final resting place of the damaged Mars helicopter, Ingenuity.
Perseverance took the picture on February 4, nearly two...
