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April 28, 2023
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Space.com

Seismic waves inside Mars’ core hint at how it became hostile to life

An artist’s depiction of the Martian interior and the paths taken by the seismic waves as. (Image credit: NASA/JPL and Nicholas Schmerr.).

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Russia agrees to stay aboard International Space Station through 2028

The other major ISS partners — the space agencies of Europe, Canada and Japan — have signed on through 2030, the update added, joining NASA in committing to the orbiting lab through the envisioned end of its operational life.

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China’s Zhurong Mars rover finds signs of recent water activity on Red Planet

Scientists studying data from China’s Zhurong rover have for the first time found cracked layers on tiny Martian dunes, which imply the Red Planet was a salt-rich watery world as recently as 400,000 years ago.

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China possibly adding helicopter, 6-legged robot to its Mars sample return mission

An outline of science objectives for the Tianwen-3 Mars mission were shown in a presentation at the International Conference of Deep Space Sciences in Hefei, Anhui province on April 22. The mission overview contained references to …

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Spaceflight Now

NASA’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter has now flown more than 50 times

Ingenuity’s historic 50th flight took place on April 13, when it flew 1,057 feet (322.2 meters) in just under three minutes and reached a record altitude of 59 feet (18 meters) before descending into Belva Crater, which stretches for about half a mile.

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Space.com

Watch SpaceX launch 2 telecom satellites, land rocket at sea today

SpaceX will launch two satellites for the telecom company SES today (April 28) and land a rocket at sea, weather permitting, and you can watch the action live. A Falcon 9 rocket carrying SES’ O3b mPower 3 and 4 satellites is scheduled to lift off from …

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Spaceflight Now

Watch live: First Arab spacewalker heads outside International Space Station

Veteran NASA astronaut Steve Bowen and Emirati astronaut Sultan Alneyadi suited up and floated outside the International Space Station Friday for a spacewalk to prepare the outpost for new solar arrays and retrieve a disabled S-band antenna for …

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CNN

Life in the ocean’s ‘twilight zone’ could disappear due to the climate crisis

Paleontologists and ocean scientists teamed up to study the impacts on the ocean’s twilight zone during previous ancient warming events in order to predict how the habitat may respond in the future due to global warming. The research team …

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Astronomy Magazine

Aurorae throughout our solar system and beyond

Spectacular auroral emissions reveal just how interconnected stars, planets, and moons really are. By Theo Nicitopoulos | Published: Friday, April 28, 2023. RELATED TOPICS: ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS.

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James Webb Space Telescope spots huge galactic protocluster in the early universe (photo)

The galaxies highlighted in this James Webb Space Telescope image have been confirmed to be at. The developing cluster seen by JWST here existed just 650 million years after the Big Bang.

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