It's often said Earth's resources are finite. This is true enough. But shift your gaze skyward for a moment. Up there, amid the stars, lurks an invisible bonanza of epic proportions.
Many of the materials upon which modern civilization is built exist in far greater amounts throughout the rest of the solar system.
Bold new mission to asteroid belt will study Venus and seven unknown worlds - CNET
The mission, announced Tuesday by the vice president of the UAE, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid, will perform a flyby of the hellacious second planet from the sun in mid-2028, swinging around the planet on its way back past Earth and toward the asteroid belt.
If it can achieve all that, the UAE would become the fourth country to touch down on the surface of an asteroid. It won't be easy.
EarthSky | Comet or asteroid? This object is both
If you saw an object in the asteroid belt with a long comet-like tail, what would you call it? A comet or an asteroid ? Or perhaps a cometoid (meaning comet-like )?
Lead author Henry Hsieh from the Planetary Science Institute presented this study at a press conference on October 4, at the 53rd annual meeting (in this case, a virtual meeting ) of the American Astronomical Society's Division for Planetary Sciences.
New UAE space mission will orbit Venus and land on an asteroid - CNN
(CNN) The United Arab Emirates is setting a course for Venus and the main asteroid belt. The new interplanetary mission, announced by the UAE Space Agency on Tuesday, will launch in 2028.
Asteroid Bennu's Surface Surprised Scientists – Here's the Reason for the Mysterious Lack of Fine
OSIRIS-REx mission scientists thought sampling a piece of Bennu would be like a walk on the beach, but the surprisingly craggy surface proved to be more of a challenge. Credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona
Scientists thought asteroid Bennu’s surface would be like a sandy beach, abundant in fine sand and pebbles, which would have been perfect for collecting samples.
NASA’s Lucy asteroid mission 10 days from launch – Spaceflight Now
Fueled up for a 12-year mission of exploration, NASA’s Lucy science probe is nearly ready for launch Oct. 16 from Florida’s Space Coast to begin a journey through the solar system to visit eight asteroids, a record number for a single spacecraft.
Ground teams completed testing of the Lucy spacecraft last month inside a climate-controlled clean room at the Astrotech payload processing facility in Titusville, Florida, a few miles from the gates to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.
Wes Anderson shooting next film 'Asteroid City' in Spain, reveals Bill Murray | News | Screen
Wes Anderson's next film is titled Asteroid City , with production underway on the feature in Spain.
The film will star Anderson regular Bill Murray, who teased details about the project at Sunday's (October 10) BFI London Film Festival screening of their most recent collaboration, The French Dispatch .
Asteroid probe mounted on Atlas booster originally assigned to astronaut flight –
Teams at Cape Canaveral transferred NASA’s Lucy asteroid explorer to a United Launch Alliance integration building Thursday and mounted the robotic science probe atop an Atlas 5 rocket for liftoff later this month, using a booster originally built to send astronauts into space.
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