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Saturday, 3 October 2020

This week in space: Venus' phosphine mystery deepens, ice covered lake system found on Mars, flying paramedics and loads more...


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Pick o' the podcasts


Weekly space hangout



From the video store


More subsurface lakes found on Mars


Earth sized rogue planet found


Jetpacks for paramedics


NASA's OSIRIS-REX mission prepares to land on asteroid Bennu and collect a sample


...and observes weathering, driven by the Sun's heat there: 


A chunk of space rock skips off Earth's atmosphere


Tarawa, Kiribati, from space


...and New York city


The S.S. Kalpana Chawla launches on a resupply mission to the international space station




Reading material:

A system of Martian lakes, protected by ice, may have been found


Phosphine was detected (but not recognised) on Venus in 1978


Russia launches 3 communication satellites and 18 smallsats


Space Force and NASA show interest in nuclear thermal rockets


First responders using Starlink satellites


Hayabusa 2 mission will visit another asteroid after it drops it's samples to Earth


Radio space telescope to be stationed over the far side of the Moon


Asteroid Vesta was bombarded with giant rocks earlier than the rest of the solar system


Luna radiation may pose long term health risk for moonwalkers


Kepler communications launches its own satellites


Possible evidence of cosmic strings found?


UK Space Agency hosts major event



1 comment:

  1. I really enjoy meteor shower every year. Sometimes I think, earth is still lucky to exist. So many meteor are in solar space and many meteor clash in the atmosphere.

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