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University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) and NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center researchers have revealed the highest-ever resolution images of the sun’s atmosphere. They were captured by NASA’s High-Resolution Coronal Imager (Hi-C) telescope, which was carried into space on a sub-orbital rocket flight. This high-powered telescope can identify structures in the sun’s atmosphere as small as 7km in size, or about 0.01% of its total size.
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Self-isolation, along with social distancing, are helping stop the spread of the coronavirus, and who better to ask for tips than astronauts? In addition to having experience living in cramped spaces with limited resources, they mostly spend time alone. Astrobiologist and astronaut trainer Michaela Musilova, director of HI-SEAS (Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation), offers some helpful tips.
SpaceX and NASA originally planned the launch of a Falcon 9 rocket Saturday morning on a short, but necessary, flight to prove the company’s Crew Dragon astronaut ferry ship can quickly propel a crew to safety in the event of a catastrophic booster failure. Unfortunately, the Falcon 9 rocket, featuring a thrice-flown first stage and a fueled but engine-less second stage, is expected to be destroyed during the event, which has been delayed to Sunday morning due to poor weather.
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NASA’s SLS rocket was built to safely transport American astronauts and maximum payloads to the Moon as well as deep space destinations. Yesterday, the agency rolled out the completed core stage from NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility for a trip to the Stennis Space Center to undergo further testing. The 1.3-mile trip from the Michoud factory to the barge’s dock is just the beginning of the SLS flight hardware’s journey, as Pegasus will then ferry the SLS core stage from Michoud to Stennis, where it will be lifted and placed into the historic B-2 Test Stand for the core stage Green Run test campaign set to start later this year.
A pilot first discovered a strange 2.2-mile-long geoglyph in 1998, etched directly into a South Australian plateau. Called Marree Man, the artwork shows a hunter with what appears to be a stick or boomerang in his hand. This design made from earthen materials is so large that it can only be viewed in its entirety from above, similar to the Nazca Lines in Peru.