Voyager 2 voltou à vida...

... NASA reporta:

https://www.inverse.com/science/nasa-brings-voyager-2-fully-back-online-11.5-billion-miles-from-earth?utm_campaign=inverse&utm_content=1581096657&utm_medium=owned&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR2VtISsNXMnQFmuFT0-RqTohLsjS82iNu-SpaAsNBiANZUytLcQGj4AbzI

Voyager 2 e a heliosfera

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/nov/04/nasa-voyager-2-sends-back-first-signal-from-interstellar-space

Citando:
"The second set of measurements, by Voyager 2, give new insights into the nature of the heliosphere’s limits because on Voyager 1 a crucial instrument designed to directly measure the properties of plasma had broken in 1980.

Measurements published in five separate papers in Nature Astronomy reveal that Voyager 2 encountered a much sharper, thinner heliosphere boundary than Voyager 1. This could be due to Voyager 1 crossing during a solar maximum (activity is currently at a low) or the craft itself might have crossed through on a less perpendicular trajectory that meant it ended up spending longer at the edge."

Apollo 11 conversation log

https://news.google.com/articles/CBMib2h0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmV4cHJlc3MuY28udWsvbmV3cy9zY2llbmNlLzExMzQyMDQvTkFTQS1BcG9sbG8tMTEtTW9vbi1sYW5kaW5nLU5laWwtQXJtc3Ryb25nLXNwYWNlLXN0YXJzLW5hc2EtbmV3c9IBc2h0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmV4cHJlc3MuY28udWsvbmV3cy9zY2llbmNlLzExMzQyMDQvTkFTQS1BcG9sbG8tMTEtTW9vbi1sYW5kaW5nLU5laWwtQXJtc3Ryb25nLXNwYWNlLXN0YXJzLW5hc2EtbmV3cy9hbXA?hl=en-GB≷=GB&ceid=GB%3Aen

Citando:
"Commander Armstrong told Mission Control: “Houston, it’s been a real change for us.

“Now we’re able to see stars again and recognise constellations for the first time on the trip.

“It’s – the sky is full of stars. Just like the night side of Earth.

“But all the way here, we’ve only been able to see stars occasionally and perhaps through the monocular but not recognise any star patterns"

NASA astronaut Bruce McCandless, who was communicating with Apollo 11, replied: “I guess it's turned into night up there really, hasn't it?.”

Commander Armstrong silly replied that it “really has”.

About 30 minutes later, NASA’s Mission Control read out the day’s news headlines to the astronauts alongside some messages from their families.

Mr McCandless said: “West Germany has declared Monday to be Apollo Day. School children in Bavaria have been given the day off.

“Post Office clerks have been encouraged to bring radios to work and Frankfurt is installing TV sets in public places.”"

Fotos da Apolo 11 inéditas

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/8435440/moon-landing-photos-rocket-blast-astronauts-plunge-us-flag/

NASA SPHEREx

https://www.jn.pt/tecnologia/interior/nasa-lanca-em-2023-telescopio-espacial-para-explorar-origens-do-universo-10578565.html

NASA, o astronauta da Apolo 8 e Marte

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-46364179

Citando:
""Nasa couldn't get to the Moon today. They're so ossified... Nasa has turned into a jobs programme... many of the centres are mainly interested in keeping busy and you don't see the public support other than they get the workers their pay and their congressmen get re-elected."

Anders is also critical of the decision to focus on near-Earth orbit exploration after the completion of the Apollo programme in the 1970s. "I think the space shuttle was a serious error. It hardly did anything except have an exciting launch, but it never lived up to its promise," he said.

"The space station is only there because you had a shuttle, and vice-versa. Nasa really mismanaged the manned programme since the late lunar landings.""
(...)
"In December 1968, Anders, along with crewmates Frank Borman and Jim Lovell, lifted off from Cape Canaveral in Florida atop a Saturn V, before completing 10 orbits around the Moon.

The crew of Apollo 8 spent 20 hours in orbit, before returning to Earth.

They splashed down in the Pacific on 27 December, landing just 5,000 yards (4,500 metres) from their target point. They were picked up by the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown.

It was the furthest humans had ever been from their home planet at that point - and a vital stepping stone on the road to Apollo 11's historic moon landing just seven months later."

NASA e asteróide de 500m?

https://news.sky.com/story/nasa-probe-osiris-rex-becomes-ancient-asteroids-first-visitor-11570980

Citando:
"After a journey of more than 80 million miles (130m km), Osiris-Rex is now about 12 miles (19km) away from Bennu, and will get ever closer, going into the asteroid's orbit on 31 December.

Spacecrafts have never before orbited a cosmic body as small as Bennu, which measures at just 500m (1,600ft) across."

Space: NASA Insight en Marte

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/nov/27/nasa-mars-insight-lander-sends-back-first-picture-from-red-planet

Citando:
"Taken with a clear dust cover still in place on the camera lens, the picture was beamed up from the Martian surface to Nasa’s orbiting Odyssey spacecraft, and from there sent the 91m miles (146m kilometres) to Earth."

Fotos de Marte (NASA)

Incluindo o Schiaparelli (ESA):
http://www.beautyofplanet.com/nasa-has-just-released-2540-stunning-new-photos-of-mars-2/

Citando:
"For 10 years, HiRISE has recorded gorgeous – and scientifically valuable – images of Mars. Its photos are so detailed that scientists can examine the planet’s features at the scale of just a few feet, including the recent crash site of Europe’s Schiaparelli Mars lander.

We combed through 2,054 of the camera’s latest pictures, released in August, September, and October, to bring you some of the best – and hopefully help you temporarily escape Earth."

NASA Dawn Mission (Vesta)

Investigação das origens do sistema solar (Dawb Mission - NASA):
https://phys.org/news/2018-10-vesta-reveals-childhood-solar.html

TESS, Kepler e os exoplanetas (NASA)

https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/09/get-ready-for-a-flood-of-new-exoplanets-tess-has-already-spotted-two/

Citando:
"TESS images a single area for roughly a month before moving on to the next. Over the course of a year, this will allow it to capture most of the sky in a single hemisphere; it will switch to the other hemisphere for its second year of observations. Should the hardware still be operational at the two-year mark, it will have imaged most of the sky, and a similar cycle will likely start again.

This cadence creates some trade offs. If a planet's orbit is such that it doesn't pass in front of its star during the month TESS happens to be pointing that way, we'll miss it (unless it's part of the small overlap between separate areas). This will bias us toward finding planets with short orbital periods, where a transit is guaranteed to happen whenever TESS gets around to pointing at it. Short enough orbits mean we can observe multiple transits during that month, confirming the planet's existence without the need for follow-on observations."

A última imagem da Cassini

... mesmo:
https://www.cnet.com/news/sorry-this-mind-blowing-view-wasnt-cassinis-last-image/

Insight tira selfie

... a meio caminho de Marte:
http://www.space.com/41547-mars-insight-lander-selfie-halfway-mark.html
Citando:
""If you are an engineer on InSight, that first glimpse of the heat shield blanket, harness tie-downs and cover bolts is a very reassuring sight as it tells us our Instrument Context Camera is operating perfectly," InSight project manager Tom Hoffman said in the NASA statement. "The next picture we plan to take with this camera will be of the surface of Mars."

That picture will be taken on Nov. 26, a few minutes after InSight lands at Elysium Planitia, a flat plane near the planet's equator. Once settled, it will deploy its instruments and begin investigating the planet's interior structure and geology."

O objecto que viaja mais rápido...

... feito pelo ser humano vai ser lançado em breve em direcção ao sol (é vai demorar 7 anos a atingir essa tal velocidade):
https://www.engadget.com/2018/08/09/nasa-parker-solar-probe-launch/

Faz lembrar a estúpida música: Set the controls to the heart of the sun?

Citando:
"The Parker Solar Probe (...)

If the weather remains favorable and everything goes according to plan on August 11th, NASA is sending a spacecraft to the sun. The Parker Solar Probe will go closer to the massive ball of gas and plasma keeping our solar system together than any other spacecraft has gone before. It will brave extreme temperatures reaching up to 2,500 degrees Fahrenheit to collect data and images of the sun's atmosphere called "corona." The spacecraft will also reach speeds up to 430,000 mph, making it the fastest-ever human-made object. That's nowhere near fast enough to reach Alpha Centauri within our lifetime -- it has to travel around 7,000 years to reach the star closest to our sun -- but fast enough to get from Philadelphia to DC in a second."
(...)
" the Parker Solar Probe can soar as close as 3.83 million miles above the sun's surface, though, it first has to spend seven years encircling the sun again and again. It will use Venus' gravity to fly closer to the sun each orbit while picking up speed in the process"

Mais um astronauta com visões...

Aliens no Space Shuttle Atlantis:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6042653/amp/Nasa-astronaut-Leland-Melvin-claims-saw-organic-alien-like-creature-Space-Shuttle.html

Park Solar Probe (NASA)

http://exameinformatica.sapo.pt/noticias/ciencia/2018-07-25-NASA-prepara-se-para-mandar-sonda-rumo-ao-Sol

Citando:
"Parker Solar Probe deve chegar à coroa solar, a camada exterior da atmosfera do Sol, localizado a cerca de seis milhões de quilómetros da superfície do astro. Mesmo assim, será o mais próximo que alguma vez estivemos do Sol.

A sonda da NASA tem o tamanho aproximado de um carro e vai “mergulhar” na coroa solar para realizar experiências e obter informações sobre, por exemplo, comom é que os campos magnéticos e elétricos têm impacto nos ventos solares, o que faz com que partículas acelerem para o espaço e porque é que a coroa solar é mais quente que a superfície do Sol, explica a Popular Science."

Saturn V lançado hoje em 1969...

https://www.nasa.gov/content/launch-of-apollo-11

Citando:
"On July 16, 1969, the huge, 363-feet tall Saturn V rocket launches on the Apollo 11 mission from Pad A, Launch Complex 39, Kennedy Space Center, at 9:32 a.m. EDT. Onboard the Apollo 11 spacecraft are astronauts Neil A. Armstrong, commander; Michael Collins, command module pilot; and Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., lunar module pilot. Apollo 11 was the United States' first lunar landing mission. While astronauts Armstrong and Aldrin descended in the Lunar Module "Eagle" to explore the Sea of Tranquility region of the moon, astronaut Collins remained with the Command and Service Modules "Columbia" in lunar orbit."

O senhor ex-Microsoft, a NASA e as estimativas erradas?

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/jun/24/nathan-myhrvold-inventor-microsoft-patent-nasa-asteroid-data-pizza-science

Citando:
"Nasa’s Wise space telescope [Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer] measured the asteroids in four different wavelengths in the infrared. My main beef is with how they analysed that data. What I think happened is they made some poor choices of statistical methods. Then, to cover that up, they didn’t publish a lot of the information that would help someone else replicate it. I’m afraid they have both over- and underestimated. The effect changes depending on the size of the asteroid and what it’s made of. The studies were advertised as being accurate to plus or minus 10%. In fact, it is more like 30-35%. That’s if you look overall. If you look at specific subsets some of them are off by more than 100%. It’s kind of a mess."

Plano da NASA para asteróides

https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/6587550/nasa-plan-defend-earth-asteroid/

Citação:
"Nasa’s five-step plan for saving the Earth from space death

In the 18-page plan, Nasa outlined five key ways it would avoid the total destruction of Earth and all human life."

Matéria orgânica em Marte...

Anúncio da NASA a 7 de Junho?
Em quantidades maiores que à superfície (e variação de metano ao longo do tempo):
https://super.abril.com.br/ciencia/robo-curiosity-encontra-materia-organica-e-metano-misterioso-em-marte-e-dai/