Science & Environment
Exploring the Solar System’s beauty spots
Spots are probably best known as the bane of a teenage face, but you might be surprised to know that a propensity for spots is also a characteristic of other worlds.
Tag: space
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Aussie bush tucker could nourish NASA astronauts in space
Warrigal greens or Australian bush tomatoes might soon be on the menu to tantalise the tastebuds of space travellers.
Science & Environment
Supercomputer pinpoints a meteorite’s origin
Today’s researchers in astronomy and space science have access to a remarkable array of tools, including state-of-the-art telescopes both in space and on the ground. Less obvious to the casual onlooker, though, is their access to computing facilities that earlier generations of scientists could only dream of – and Australia boasts supercomputers that are the envy of the scientific world.
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Spider eyes on the skies: Australia’s Huntsman Telescope
The new Huntsman Telescope can see deep into the darkness where faint celestial structures hide.
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Deflecting an asteroid
Space scientists everywhere are following the final movements of a little craft in deep space on a mission that could profoundly affect humankind’s future.
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Sounds of Mars
NASA’s Perseverance rover, accompanied by a helicopter drone called Ingenuity, is seeking geological evidence of past life on Mars.
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NASA to launch 3 rockets from Northern Territory in boost for Australian space efforts
Over the next month, NASA will launch three rockets from the Arnhem Space Centre in the Northern Territory on the Dhupuma Plateau, near Nhulunbuy. The rockets are 13 metre “sounding” rockets that will not reach orbit but will take scientific observations.
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The impact of eradicating dingoes from the landscape are visible from space
The effects dingoes have on the environment have been captured in 32 years of NASA satellite imagery along Australia’s 5600km dingo fence.
History & Culture
What we can learn about Mars from meteorites found on Earth
As the Perseverance rover lands on Mars, there’s a lot we already know about the red planet from meteorites found on Earth.
Science & Environment
The life and death of the first astrochimp, Ham
On January 31, 1961, an intrepid chimpanzee called Ham was launched on a rocket from Cape Canaveral in the United States, and returned to Earth alive. In this process, he became the first hominin in space.