Touching Down on Asteroid Bennu On Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2020, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx sample collection mission performed a successful “Touch-And-Go” (TAG) maneuver.
Touching Down on Asteroid Bennu | #Astronomy
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Seagrasses restored to Virginia bays are flourishing | #Science
Seagrasses restored to Virginia bays are flourishing Scientists see ecosystem-wide results of globe’s largest seagrass restoration More at https://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=301462&WT.mc_id=USNSF_1 This is a Research News item.
Reviving cells after a heart attack | #Science
Reviving cells after a heart attack Researchers unravel the healing mechanisms of extracellular vesicles More at https://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=301464&WT.mc_id=USNSF_1 This is a Research News item.
Neutron Stars Create Gold and Platinum in Their Wake | #Astronomy
Neutron Stars Create Gold and Platinum in Their Wake This illustration shows the hot, dense, expanding cloud of debris stripped from neutron stars just before they collided.
Orion’s Recently Installed Solar Array Wings | #Astronomy
Orion’s Recently Installed Solar Array Wings Two of Orion’s four recently installed solar array wings are exposed and surrounded by the panels that will protect it during launch and ascent.
What if underwater robots could dock mid-mission to recharge and transfer data? | #Science
What if underwater robots could dock mid-mission to recharge and transfer data? Researchers create mobile docking system for autonomous underwater vehicles More at https://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=301452&WT.mc_id=USNSF_1 This is a Research News item.
Hubble Snaps a Special Stellar Nursery | #Astronomy
Hubble Snaps a Special Stellar Nursery This Hubble image shows a special class of star-forming nursery known as Free-floating Evaporating Gaseous Globules. Called frEGGs for short, these dark compact globules of dust and gas can give birth to low-mass stars.
Climate patterns linked in Amazon, North and South America | #Science
Climate patterns linked in Amazon, North and South America Researchers used newly developed tree-ring chronology from the Amazon River basin More at https://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=301438&WT.mc_id=USNSF_1 This is a Research News item.
Researchers use satellite imaging to map groundwater use in California’s Central Valley | #Science
Researchers use satellite imaging to map groundwater use in California's Central Valley Data reveal variability in intensity of groundwater use for different crops More at https://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=301439&WT.mc_id=USNSF_1 This is a Research News item.
Cliffs in Ancient Ice on Mars | #Astronomy
Cliffs in Ancient Ice on Mars Scientists have come to realize that, just below the surface, about one third of Mars is covered in ice.
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