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NASA’s Orion Spacecraft Successfully Lands in Pacific Ocean

By News Staff December 12, 2022

NASA’s uncrewed Orion spacecraft successfully splashed down in the Pacific Ocean off Mexico’s Baja California at 12:40 p.m. ET on December 10, 2022. The splashdown is the final milestone of…

Planetary Scientists Find Evidence for Active Mantle Plume on Mars

By News Staff December 6, 2022

Elysium Planitia, a flat-smooth plain just north of the Martian equator, is underlain by an 4,000-km-diameter active mantle plume, according to new research by scientists from the Lunar and Planetary…

NASA’s Orion Spacecraft is on Its Way to the Moon

By News Staff November 16, 2022

Carrying an uncrewed Orion, NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) — the most powerful rocket in the world — lifted off today at 1:47 a.m. EST from at NASA’s Kennedy Space…

Martian Springtime Dust Storms Churn Up Surprisingly Earth-Like Cloud Patterns: Study

By News Staff November 16, 2022

Using images obtained by two orbiting spacecraft, NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and ESA’s Mars Express, planetary researchers analyzed textured dust storms that develop at the northern polar cap boundary on…

NASA’s Orion Spacecraft Successfully Lands in Pacific Ocean

Planetary Scientists Find Evidence for Active Mantle Plume on Mars

NASA’s Orion Spacecraft is on Its Way to the Moon

Astronomers Propose New Definition of Planet

Cassini Reveals Surface Properties of Titan’s Hydrocarbon Seas