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Europe has announced a space mission to Earth’s “evil twin”

Europe has announced a space mission to Earth’s “evil twin”

The European Space Agency gave the go-ahead for the development of the EnVision mission, which from low orbit explores Venus – the second planet from the Sun and Earth’s neighbor. This was reported by the ESA press release.   Scientists hope to shed light on when and how Venus survived the catastrophic greenhouse effect. EnVision […]

The first generation of photos of Ganymede – Jupiter’s giant icy moon

The first generation of photos of Ganymede – Jupiter’s giant icy moon

Interplanetary automatic station Juno, which is exploring the Jupiter system, sent the first two images of Ganymede – the largest satellite not only of its planet, but also in the entire solar system. Photos are posted on the mission subsite on the NASA portal.   The first flight of the probe over Ganymede took place […]

Voyager 1 heard “light rain noise” 23 billion km from Earth: audio from deep space

Voyager 1 heard “light rain noise” 23 billion km from Earth: audio from deep space

Launched 44 years ago, the Voyager 1 probe since August 2012 is no longer flying in the heliosphere of the solar system. With the distance from the Sun, solar disturbances at different frequencies subsided, which allowed the apparatus to register a barely noticeable but steady “hum” of extremely rarefied ionized interstellar gas. Writes about this […]

Humanity Will Launch Interstellar 1,000 Times Farther Than Record-breaking Voyagers

Humanity Will Launch Interstellar 1,000 Times Farther Than Record-breaking Voyagers

American and European scientists have developed and intend to assemble the Interstellar interstellar probe. Its task is to go beyond the solar system and transmit information about what is happening at a distance of about 1000 times farther than from the Sun to the Earth, writes the European Union of Earth Sciences.   The project […]