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- Stoke Space has received repeated investments from the venture arm for the U.S.... Stoke Space has received multiple investments from In-Q-Tel, the strategic investor for the U.S. intelligence and defense community, TechCrunch has learned. Stoke Space and In-Q-Tel have not publicly announced their relationship before. While In-Q-Tel is legally a separate entity from any government agency, it receives all of its funding from...
- Mars rover snaps pics of dusty craters that may have once roared with water NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover captured this mosaic of an isolated hill nicknamed “Pinestand.” Scientists think sedimentary layers stacked on top of one another here could have been formed by a deep, fast-moving river. NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSSNASA’s ‘six-wheeled scientist’ is chugging along. The post Mars rover snaps pics of dusty craters that may...
- Dynamics and interactions of Quincke roller clusters: From orbits and flips to e... From orbits and flips to electrohydrodynamical coupling and supracolloidal chemistry in active colloidal clusters....
- How to Grow Rice on Mars It’ll take a lot of work in order to grow rice on Mars. First, and most importantly, we need a mission to successfully get to Mars and set up camp, something NASA is hoping to do in the late 2030s or early 2040s. The distance to Mars from Earth is...
- Jellyfish-like robots could one day clean up the world’s oceans Most of the world is covered in oceans, which are unfortunately highly polluted. One of the strategies to combat the mounds of waste found in these very sensitive ecosystems – especially around coral reefs – is to employ robots to master the cleanup. However, existing underwater robots are mostly bulky...
- International Sea Level Satellite Spots Early Signs of El Niño In Brief: Kelvin waves, a potential precursor of El Niño conditions in the ocean, are rolling across the equatorial Pacific toward the coast of South America. The most recent sea level data from the U.S.-European satellite Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich indicates early signs of a developing El Niño across the equatorial...
- Snake-Like EELS Slithers into Robotics Terrain NASA Jet Propulsion LaboratoryA self-propelled snake-like robot developed by researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) can map and navigate previously inaccessible terrain autonomously. The EELS (Exobiology Extant Life Surveyor) robot can choose a safe path through terrains ranging from steep craters to underground lava tubes, and can adapt to...
- NASA hopes its snake robot can search for alien life on Saturn’s moon Enceladus The 200-pound robot is designed to maneuver both across ice and underwater. NASA/JPL-CalTechEELS could one day wriggle its way into Enceladus' hidden oceans in search of extraterrestrial life. The post NASA hopes its snake robot can search for alien life on Saturn’s moon Enceladus appeared first on Popular Science....
- Asteroid belt circling star 25 light-years away hints at a hidden planet Fomalhaut, a 440-million-year-old star, has a debris disk and two rings, akin to our asteroid and Kuiper belts. Adam BlockJWST's observations of the young star can help reveal how solar systems like ours formed. The post Asteroid belt circling star 25 light-years away hints at a hidden planet appeared first...
- Hidden oceans could be lurking deep within Uranus’ moons This wider view of the Uranian system released on April 06, 2023 was taken with the James Webb Space Telescope’s NIRCam instrument features the planet Uranus as well as six of its 27 known moons (most of which are too small and faint to be seen in this short exposure)....
- JPL’s Snake-Like EELS Slithers Into New Robotics Terrain A versatile robot that would autonomously map, traverse, and explore previously inaccessible destinations is being put to the test at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory....
- Turns out Uranus might be swarmed by deep ocean worlds Some of Uranus' moons likely have deep oceans lurking beneath their ice-capped surfaces, a new study by NASA shows.Two of them, Titania and Oberon, may even have water warm enough to support life.Scientists have recently pored through decades-old information collected by the veteran Voyager 2 spacecraft, which flew by Uranus...