Engineers at OHB, Germany, inspect Plato’s newly installed 24 cameras on the spacecraft’s optical bench, the structure that keeps all cameras firmly pointed in the right direction. — ESA Larger
Engineers at OHB, Germany, inspect Plato’s newly installed 24 cameras on the spacecraft’s optical bench, the structure that keeps all cameras firmly pointed in the right direction. — ESA Larger
Engineers at OHB, Germany, inspect Plato’s newly installed 24 cameras on the spacecraft’s optical bench, the structure that keeps all cameras firmly pointed in the right direction. — ESA Larger
The robotic arm on NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover used its percussive drill to core and collect the “Main River” rock sample on March 10, 2025, the 1,441st Martian day, or
Have you ever imagined what Antarctica looks like beneath its thick blanket of ice? Hidden below are rugged mountains, valleys, hills and plains. Some peaks, like the towering Transantarctic Mountains,
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Giant impacts are highly complex events with different processes dominating the dynamics of different regions of the colliding bodies. Illustrative time snapshots from an example SPH giant impact simulation with
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