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https://www.space.com/growing-fresh-space-food-nasa-experiment.html: This NASA Experiment Shows Promise for Farm-Fresh Foods in Space
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22 May 2019, 21:00 UTC On long space voyages, food variety will be key. A new NASA experiment called Veg-PONDS 02, which astronauts just ran on the International Space Station, offers a chance to attain that variety.
http://astroengine.com/?p=65978: How Gaia Is Already Shaping Our Interstellar Adventures
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22 May 2019, 20:13 UTC The space telescope has refined the stellar flybys of the Voyager and Pioneer probes—how might it help us chart our way to the stars in the future?
https://astronomynow.com/?p=29673: Scientists spot buried remnants of polar ice sheets on Mars
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22 May 2019, 19:51 UTC Scientists have discovered remnants of ancient ice sheets buried in sand a mile beneath Mars’s north pole, they report in a new study. The findings show conclusive evidence of the waxing and waning of polar ice on the red planet due to changes in its orbit and tilt, according to the study’s authors.
https://www.universetoday.com/?p=142283: NASA has Picked the Companies That’ll Help Build its Lunar Landers
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Direct link NASA has Picked the Companies That’ll Help Build its Lunar Landers

22 May 2019, 17:27 UTC NASA has chosen 11 American companies to help them build the next lunar landers that will carry humans to the surface of the Moon. The 11 companies will conduct studies and work on prototype landers in the coming years. It’s all part of NASA’s Artemis mission, and the mission’s 2024 date with the surface of the Moon.
https://physicsworld.com/?p=80284: The story behind the first ever black hole image
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Direct link The story behind the first ever black hole image

22 May 2019, 15:56 UTC In the May edition of the Physics World Stories podcast, Andrew Glester reflects on the biggest astronomy story of the year – the first ever image of a black hole and its “shadow.” Unless you’ve been living in a black hole yourself, you will have seen the glowing donut/eye of Sauron/smiley face, which is actually the supermassive black hole at the centre of the M87 elliptical galaxy, some 55 million light-years from Earth. The image represents an incredible feat of science and engineering, produced from petabytes of data captured by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), a network of individual radio telescopes and telescopic arrays scattered across the globe.
https://www.spaceflightinsider.com/?p=127846: Want to send you name to Mars? Now’s your chance
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Direct link Want to send you name to Mars? Now’s your chance

22 May 2019, 11:00 UTC NASA is inviting individuals to submit their names to be etched onto a chip that will fly aboard its next Mars rover, slated to launch in 2020.
https://www.space.com/nasa-deep-space-radiation-mission-biosentinel.html: In 2020, NASA Will Send Living Things to Deep Space for First Time Since Apollo
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Direct link In 2020, NASA Will Send Living Things to Deep Space for First Time Since Apollo

21 May 2019, 16:05 UTC NASA is getting ready to launch living creatures to deep space for the first time in nearly five decades.
https://medium.com/p/80af74e91b72: This Is Why Mars Is Red And Dead While Earth Is Blue And Alive
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Direct link This Is Why Mars Is Red And Dead While Earth Is Blue And Alive

21 May 2019, 14:01 UTC Imagine the early days of our Solar System, going back billions of years. The Sun was cooler and less luminous, but there were (at least) two planets — Earth and Mars — with liquid water covering large portions of their surfaces. Neither world was completely frozen over owing to the substantial presence of greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide. Both may have even had primitive life forms in their young oceans, paving the way for a bright, biology-friendly future. Over the past few billion years, both planets have undergone dramatic changes. Yet, for some reason, while Earth became oxygen-rich, remained temperate, and saw life explode on its surface, Mars simply died. Its oceans disappeared; it lost its atmosphere; and no life signs have yet been found there. There must be a reason why Mars died while Earth survived. It took decades, but science has finally figured it out.
200345 at https://www.syfy.com: Eerie glowing clouds light up the Martian twilight
Bad Astronomy

Direct link Eerie glowing clouds light up the Martian twilight

21 May 2019, 13:00 UTC Mars has fascinated humans for, well, forever. A bloodshot, baleful eye in the heavens… telescopic observations furthered its allure, with straight lines across the surface that looked like canals, and barely glimpsed features that changed with season, hinting at perhaps Earth-like conditions.
4E8B7287-F277-4E80-B0A1D4CBB4C5A42B: How Wild Should We Let the Solar System Be?
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Direct link How Wild Should We Let the Solar System Be?

21 May 2019, 12:00 UTC Space, as Douglas Adams so aptly put it, is big. Compared with the confines of our own planet, the solar system’s expanse is absurdly huge. Yet a recent study suggests that at current growth rates, humanity could practically exhaust the most accessible riches in our stellar neighborhood within less than five centuries.

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