Nüwa’s geography will naturally shield residents from radiation; the idea is to excavate the tall, sheer cliffs there and build the Martian city inside.

We don’t know about how life away from Earth affects living things.

Astronauts have been sending animals to space longer than they’ve been going themselves, and the results have helped humans in space and on Earth.

Virgin Galactic managed to carry out the first of several planned suborbital flights — and the whole thing was caught on camera.

Virgin Galactic held the first in a series of suborbital flights, with video footage previewing what it will really be like to be a tourist in space.

Many features in Jupiter’s highly dynamic atmosphere are short lived, but the April 2021 observation from the JunoCam instrument (top image) revealed that nearly one year after its discovery, the remnant of Clyde’s Spot had not only drifted away from the Great Red Spot but had also developed into a complex structure that scientists call a folded filamentary region. This region is twice as big in latitude and three times as big in longitude as the original spot, and has the potential to persist for an extended period of time.

The lower image was taken on June 2, 2020, around 3:56 a.m. when the spacecraft was about 28000 miles (45000 kilometers) from Jupiter’s cloud tops. The upper image was taken on April 15, 2021, at 4:58 p.m. PDT (7:58 p.m. EDT). At the time, the spacecraft was about 16800 miles (27000 kilometers) from Jupiter’s cloud tops, at a latitude of about 30 degrees South. Another citizen scientist, Kevin M. Gill, processed both images from raw JunoCam data.

JunoCam’s raw images are available for the public to peruse and process into image products at https://missionjuno.swri.edu/junocam/processing. More information about NASA citizen science can be found at https://science.nasa.gov/citizenscience and https://www.nasa.gov/solve/opportunities/citizenscience.

Virgin Galactic on Saturday made its first rocket-powered flight from New Mexico to the fringe of space in a manned shuttle, as the company forges toward offering tourist flights to the edge of the Earth’s atmosphere.

High above the desert in a cloudless sky, the VSS Unity ignited its rocket to hurtle the ship and two pilots toward space. A live feed by NASASpaceFlight.com showed the ship accelerating upward and confirmed a landing later via radar.

Virgin Galactic announced that its VSS Unity shuttle accelerated to three times the speed of sound and reached an altitude of just over 55 miles (89 kilometers) above sea level before making its gliding return through the atmosphere.

Ingenuity decided to go big — and not to go home.

Today we discuss Mars surface conditions with the villain from a 90s Kid’s movie. I also get mad (but not in a technical way). Apologies for this one.

The next one will be on Space Guns and Jules Verne which is more fitting for the channel.

Transition footage and thumbnail image are from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Perseverance and Ingenuity are nifty.

The Articles in Question (Don’t Contact the Authors):

“Mars is a Hellhole”

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/02/mars-is-no-earth/618133/