NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has revealed that movement in sand dune fields on the Red Planet occurs on a surprisingly large scale, about the same as in dune fields on Earth. This is unexpected because Mars has a much thinner atmosphere than Earth, is only about one percent as dense, and its high-speed winds are less frequent and weaker than Earth's.
SpaceX and Bigelow Aerospace Join Forces to Offer Crewed Missions To BA 330 Habitats
There will come a time when privately-held space stations orbit the Earth ... and it may be coming sooner than you think. But crews will have to be transported to those facilities, and that's where a company like SpaceX comes in. On Thursday, SpaceX and Bigelow Aerospace (BA) said they have agreed to conduct a joint marketing effort focused on international customers.
NASA researchers have flown off on a campaign that is taking them into the heart of thunderstorm country. The Deep Convective Clouds and Chemistry (DC3) field campaign is using an airport in Salina, KS, as a base to explore the impact of large thunderstorms on the concentration of ozone and other substances in the upper troposphere.
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