Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – People have used meteoritic iron to make tools, jewelry, ritual items, and even magical objects throughout history. The Inuit in northern Greenland made knives and scrapers from the Cape York meteorites. In pre-Columbian America, some meteorites were buried in rituals or turned into jewelry. In Egypt, a meteoritic iron talisman […]
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During the Aug. 12 total solar eclipse over Europe, scientists aimed to study a long-standing mystery: why the Sun’s outer atmosphere, the corona, is far hotter than its visible surface. Capturing the data they needed meant being in exactly the right place at the right time. Pilots from NASA’s Johnson Space Center flew the WB-57F high altitude research aircraft from Ellington Field in Houston to Iceland, their […]
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NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover reached the pinnacle — so far — of its 14-year-old mission on Aug. 26, 2026, when it marked an elevation gain of 1 kilometer in its journey from Gale Crater on Mars up the slope of Mount Sharp. Curiosity obtained the accompanying mosaic image, a view looking back from its current […] The post Curiosity Reaches 1-Kilometer Elevation Gain appeared first on NASA Science.
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NASA will provide coverage as two astronauts step outside the International Space Station on Tuesday, Sept. 1, to replace a spacecraft navigational aid and complete several maintenance tasks in support of space station operations. Watch live coverage beginning at 7 a.m. EDT. The spacewalk is expected to start at approximately 8:30 a.m. and last about […]
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Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A Roman law expert from the University of Cincinnati has edited and translated a Latin legal text that was pieced together from fragments buried in the Egyptian sands for more than 1,600 years. The text deals with taxes. Left: Possible head portrait of Constantius II found in modern al-Bab, Syria (Penn […]
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Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) Project’s National Campaign Testing Series What is National Campaign? From air taxiing passengers and cargo in urban areas, to infrastructure inspection missions, the Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) ecosystem offered newfound capabilities which have led to an increasing range of commercial applications and opportunities for use. However, with new technologies come novel […] The post Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) Project’s National Campaign Testing Series appeared first on NASA Science.
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