It has become exceedingly clear, over the past few months, that NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope does exactly what it set out to do. Just as…
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Perseverance rover finds organic matter ‘treasure’ on Mars
Investigating the site of an ancient river delta, the Perseverance rover has collected some of the most important samples yet on its mission to determine if life ever existed on Mars, according to NASA scientists.
A few of the recently collected samples include organic matter, indicating that Jezero Crater, which likely once held a lake and the delta that emptied into it, had potentially habitable environments 3.5 billion years ago.
SpaceX hits a milestone as Starlink arrives in Antarctica, high-speed internet now available on all seven continents
The Starlink dish can withstand extreme temperatures as low as-22 degrees Fahrenheit.
SpaceX’s Starlink internet service is now available in one of the most remote regions of the world: Antarctica, making the service available on all seven continents.
In a tweet on Wednesday, the National Science Foundation announced the milestone, stating that scientists with the U.S. Antarctic Program were “over the moon” and have been testing out a Starlink dish at the McMurdo Station, a U.S. research facility based on an island right off the coast of Antarctica to supply increased internet bandwidth.
NASA reveals mind-blowing image of distant planet spotted
THE JAMES Webb Space Telescope has captured new images of a distant planet in a first for the world’s top space observatory. The James Webb Space Telescope launched on Christmas Day in 2021 Credit: Alamy 
The star pasted on the images represents the planet’s host star Credit: NASAPhotographing distant planets is extremely difficult because light from their host star will pollute the images.
The James Webb Space Telescope launched on Christmas Day in 2021 Credit: Alamy 
Patchy Proton Aurora at Mars: A Global View of Solar Wind Precipitation Across the Martian Dayside From EMM/EMUS
An extraordinary phenomenon taking over the Red Planet.
NASA’s MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution) mission and the United Arab Emirates’ Emirates Mars Mission (EMM) revealed combined observations of proton aurora at Mars. It turns out that aurora can actually get patchy over the Martian atmosphere.
The study was published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.
The United Arab Emirates’ EMM found that fine-scale structures covered the proton aurora during the entire day side of Mars.
MAVEN discovered proton aurora in 2018. They form when the solar wind interacts with the upper atmosphere of Mars. Previously, MAVEN and ESA’s (the European Space Agency) Mars Express mission revealed through regular observations that this type of aurora was evenly distributed across the Martian hemisphere.
However, EMM’s observations were quite different-this time, proton aurora seemed dynamic and variable. The researcher’s called this patchy proton aurora\.