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MERRITT ISLAND, Fla – Have you ever wanted to walk on Saturn's rings or slide through an asteroid field to a nearby planet?
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Last month, the complex opened the immersive multiple-story Planet Play area. Officials said the new experience is designed for children ages 2 to 12.
Inside the indoor area, children can take part in interactive games, map a constellation, climb a worm hole and learn about our vast solar system.
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How does our solar system look like from 250 million km away? See for yourself - SCIENCE News
How would planet Earth look like from 155.7 million miles (250.6 million kilometers) away? For the first time, the joint efforts of multiple space agencies have enabled us to catch a rare glimpse of our solar system from the vicinity of the sun.
The credit for this remarkable feat goes to three different solar missions- NASA's Parker Solar Probe, NASA's Solar and Terrestrial Relations Observatory and ESA (European Space Agency) and NASA's Solar Orbiter.
Two Stages of Planet Formation Could Explain Early Solar System Architecture | Planetary News
Geochemical analyses of meteorites and other planetary materials provide important clues about the origin and evolution of the solar system. For example, nucleosynthetic isotope anomalies, which reflect primordial reservoirs in the protoplanetary disk, show that solar system materials are sharply divided into two distinct groups, which are commonly interpreted to correspond to the inner versus the outer solar system.
A recent study led by Tim Lichtenberg from the University of Oxford used numerical modeling of the evolution of the protoplanetary disk to show that this compositional dichotomy might instead be explained by two stages of planet formation related to the movement of the so-called snow line.
What's Up: February 2021 [Video] | NASA Solar System Exploration
What are some skywatching highlights in February 2021? Find Mars all month after sunset, especially on the night of NASA's planned rover landing, Feb. 18. Then watch the Moon glide across the Winter Circle before it pays a visit to the bright stars of the constellation Gemini.
What's Up for February? This month we follow the Moon to three different points of interest in the winter sky.
First up, excitement about the Red Planet is building as NASA prepares to land its latest rover there, called Perseverance, on February 18th. You'll find Mars high in the west after sunset all month long. It should be visible all evening, setting around, or soon after, midnight local time.
Quite a lot has been going on:
10 Things to Expect in Planetary Science for 2021 – NASA Solar System Exploration
New missions and new milestones are on the calendar for 2021. Here are some of the things to watch for in planetary science, as we continue to explore and learn about our incredible solar system.
The Deep Space Network – or DSN – is NASA’s international array of giant radio antennas that supports interplanetary spacecraft missions, plus a few that orbit Earth. The DSN also provides radar and radio astronomy observations that improve our understanding of the solar system and the larger universe.
Astronomers Think They've Found Another Trojan Asteroid Lurking in Earth's Orbit
A recently discovered object sharing Earth's orbital path around the Sun could actually be a trojan asteroid , astronomers have found.
If confirmed, it will be only the second object of its type identified to date, suggesting that there could be more of these hidden asteroids lurking in Earth's gravitational pockets.
Trojan asteroids are space rocks that share the orbital path of larger planetary bodies in the Solar System, hanging out in gravitationally stable regions known as Lagrangian points.
Early Solar System meteorites might explain how Earth got water
The reseachers dated the water flow in the rocks using a uranium-thorium combo. As uranium is highly mobile in fluid while thorium is relatively static, the scientists could tell when water last flowed through the meteorites. As that signature goes away over time, its presence makes clear the water was active relatively recently.
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