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☆ The incredible true story of the time an astronaut played golf on the moon
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-02 | by ( Jack Bantock | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +13 min

The resulting creation, a Wilson Staff Dyna-Power 6-iron head, was tucked away in Shepard’s space suit for launch, with a few balls hidden in a sock. “Miles and miles and miles,” the jubilant astronaut remarked as the ball sailed out of his view, swallowed by the infinite blackness of space. What does any of that have to do with an astronaut playing golf on the moon? Saunders believed Shepard’s “miles and miles” remark to have been made tongue-in-cheek, an almost instinctive reflex of his hyper-competitive, “fighter-jock” nature. “We always talk about getting to the moon, landing on the moon, returning back to Earth – that’s how we think of the moon,” Odom said.

NASA's InSight lander felt a powerful Mars quake. Then an orbiter took a picture of the meteor impact that caused it. The impact kicked up boulders of water ice, which will be crucial for future astronaut missions to Mars. "It was immediately clear that this is the biggest new crater we've ever seen," Ingrid Daubar, InSight impact science lead, said in a press briefing. An artist illustration of the InSight lander on Mars.

☆ Mars may have molten lava, scientists discover from quakes detected by NASA's Insight lander
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-27 | by ( Morgan Mcfall-Johnsen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

NASA's InSight lander has detected Mars quakes that mostly come from one region: Cerberus Fossae. But now, using a seismometer on NASA's InSight lander, scientists have discovered the first evidence of molten lava deep below the Martian surface. A series of Mars quakes clued the scientists in to the potential lava hotspot. The biggest Mars quakes point to an underground chamber of magmaInSight has detected more than 1,300 Mars quakes since landing on the red planet in 2018. To get the global picture of Mars quakes and volcanic activity, NASA would need to send more seismometers to the red planet.

☆ NASA's InSight lander captured the 'bloop' sound of a meteor falling to Mars
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-19 | by ( Morgan Mcfall-Johnsen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

NASA shared the sound of a meteor falling to Mars, with photos of the impact craters, on Monday. The dwindling InSight lander has captured the acoustic and seismic noise of four meteor impacts. NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of ArizonaThe details of the four Mars meteor strikes were published in a paper in Nature Geosciences on Monday. InSight is nearing the end of its lifeA solar array on NASA's InSight Mars lander in December 2018 (left) and June 2021 (right). NASA/JPL-CaltechThese are the first meteor impacts InSight has detected since it landed on Mars in 2018.

☆ „Spionaj spațial”; Roverul chinezesc de pe Marte, fotografiat din spațiu de naveta NASA care orbitează Planeta Roșie
▼ + stars: | 2021-06-12 | by ( ) www.jurnal.md time to read: +1 min

Sursa foto: Profimedia„Spionaj spațial”; Roverul chinezesc de pe Marte, fotografiat din spațiu de naveta NASA care orbitează Planeta RoșieRoverul chinezesc Zhurong, care a aterizat pe planeta Marte la jumătatea lunii mai, a fost fotografiat din spațiu de naveta Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), trimisă de NASA, care din 2006 orbitează în jurul Planetei Roșii. Camera HiRISE de la bordul navetei MRO a realizat cadrele pe 6 iunie, la trei săptămâni după ce Zhurong a asolizat pe Marte. China a devenit a doua țară din lume după Statele Unite care își plasează un rover pe suprafața planetei Marte, după amartizarea cu succes a robotului Zhurong. Roverul a fost trimis cu misiunea Tianwen-1, care a fost lansată spre Marte în iulie 2020. Misiunea cuprinde și o navetă care orbitează în jurul planeteo Marte și folosește pe post de antenă de comunicații între Zhurong și Pământ.

Persons: Marte, Zhu, Roverul Organizations: NASA, Marte, Mars Reconnaissance Locations: China, Statele Unite

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