Startups raise millions for lunar rovers and asteroid mining - SpaceNews
WASHINGTON — Two startups recently raised a combined $25 million in seed rounds to advance plans for lunar and asteroid missions, showing continued interest in space startups despite broader market uncertainty.
Lunar Outpost announced May 24 it raised a $12 million seed round from several investors. Explorer 1 Fund led the round with participation from Promus Ventures, Space Capital, Type 1 Ventures and Cathexis Ventures.
‘Potentially hazardous’ asteroid zooms close to Earth – Deltaplex News
(NEW YORK) — An asteroid — the largest to get close to Earth this year — tumbled past the planet Friday.
According to NASA’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies, the “potentially hazardous” asteroid is 1.1 miles long and at least 3,280 feet wide. It crossed into Earth’s orbit around 9 a.m. ET.
More than 100 previously undetected asteroids now under eye of powerful new tracking tool
The organization said its newly developed platform, known as Asteroid Discovery Analysis and Mapping, or ADAM, is an open-source, cloud-based system that allows researchers to detect newfound asteroids without needing to gather additional astronomical observations or launch a novel ...
As such, "any telescope with an archive can now become an asteroid search telescope," said Ed Lu, a former NASA astronaut and executive director of the B612 Foundation's Asteroid Institute.
Meet these 5 'celebrity meteorites' | Astronomy.com
NASA and other enterprising space agencies exert a lot of effort boldly sending robots to explore the strange worlds in our solar system and seek out new data by analyzing their composition.
But every day of every year, priceless samples of asteroids, the Moon, and even Mars arrive on Earth naturally .
The James Webb Space Telescope will study two alien 'super-Earths'
The James Webb Space Telescope You plan to explore strange and new rocky worlds in unprecedented detail.
They said the Telescope Science Consortium has an ambitious agenda to study geology on these small planets from “50 light-years away”. statement Thursday (May 26). The work will be a major extension of the new observatory, which is supposed to finish commissioning in a few weeks.
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ANSWER: Not only is the moon pockmarked with craters, so are the planets. Mercury has 763 craters, Venus has over 1,000, and Mars has 635,000. Earth has 128 confirmed impact craters. Venus and Mars had volcanic activity that filled in many of the craters.
Craters are formed by collisions from meteorites, comets and asteroids. The average speed of an asteroid striking the moon is about 12 miles per second.
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