Space Harvester

Monday, 27 August 2018

OSIRIS-REx is getting closer and closer to the asteroid.

Ian Whittaker and Gareth Dorrian

have highlighted some very good reasons
why the moon should be first on our galactic itinerary.

Link to: "Five reasons to forget Mars for now and return to the moon"

As Paul March-Russell indicates in his 16th August article for The Conversation

there are times when current politics and science fiction seem to overlap.

NASA have recently published an easy to understand article by Susannah Darling

(with accompanying video material)

providing a detailed explanation as to why the Parker Solar Probe

will be able to cope with heat and extreme temperatures.

A promising experiment involving the humble weed "thale cress" (Arabidopsis thaliana)

is presently being conducted in NASA's advanced plant habitat

on the International Space Station.

[For background information on the scientific value of thale cress

there is an old article from The INDEPENDENT

that remains quite topical and stimulatingly informative.

Purdue University News Service has provided a short, useful note

on a meteoroid that exploded

over the city of Lipetsk in western Russia in June.

Japan’s Hayabusa2 space explorer is presently

at about 20 kilometres from asteroid Ryugu

(some 280 million kilometres away from Earth)

scanning the surface for suitable touchdown places.