An artist’s conception of the 20 newly discovered moons orbiting Saturn. These discoveries bring the planet’s total moon count to 82, surpassing Jupiter for the most in our solar system. Illustration is courtesy of the Carnegie Institution for Science. Saturn image is courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute. Starry background courtesy of Paolo Sartorio/Shutterstock. Astronomers using […]
For the last two weeks, India’s Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft has been lowering its orbit around the moon as it prepares for India’s first attempt at a lunar landing. On Monday, the Vikram lunar lander separated from the Chandrayaan-2 orbiter, in the last major maneuver before the scheduled landing on Friday. If everything goes as planned, India
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Chandrayaan-2 was launched in July. Getty/Arun Sankar The moment of truth has almost arrived for India’s Chandrayaan-2 mission to the moon. After blasting off in July and snapping some gorgeous moon photos on the way, the spacecraft is now ready to begin its final descent to the moon’s currently unexplored south pole. At 3:12 p.m. PT
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tech2 News StaffSep 02, 2019 19:31:46 IST Launched as a part of the Chang’e 4 mission, China’s lunar rover Yutu has recently discovered a “gel-like” substance on the surface of the moon. As per a report by People’s Daily, this substance is described as “unusually coloured”. This discovery was made during lunar day 8 which
Jupiter system captured in JUICE NavCam test (annotated) Airbus Defence and Space Jupiter has an abundance of moons, and astronomers continue to spot new ones and to make unexpected findings about the ones we’ve already seen. An upcoming mission from the European Space Agency, called the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, or JUICE, hasn’t even left
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Google Maps is branching out into the solar system with an update that lets users explore planets and moons. Desktop users can visit the distant locations here, or by loading up Google Maps and zooming out from Earth until reaching space. Images of the planets and moons were taken by spacecraft Cassini, which was launched
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