NASA is testing the communications and radar hardware for a proposed Mars aircraft mission called SkyFall. The project is still on Earth, but its engineers are working through the details that would allow three small aircraft to fly in the thin Martian atmosphere and send useful data back to a rover or an orbiter. A […]

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Les flammes sont visibles à des kilomètres. Mais vus du ciel, les incendies de Gironde et des Landes révèlent une autre réalité. Satellites et radars météorologiques montrent des phénomènes invisibles à l’œil nu qui disent toute la violence des feux.

A multispecies map reveals the secret animal campus hiding in plain sight.

Using NASA’s Goldstone Solar System Radar and NSF’s Green Bank Telescope, astronomers from the University of California, Los Angeles, confirmed that the icy surface of Jupiter’s moon Europa scatters radio energy in an unusually strong and complex way not seen on rocky worlds.

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Volcanic minerals may help drones absorb radar, but tests haven't confirmed the claim.

The transportable sensor is designed to maintain continuous tracking of maneuvering spacecraft in orbit

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