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NASA is going back to the planet Venus to explore it anew, and they're not going to do so alone: the ESA also wants in on the fun.

British scientists will play a leading role in a new mission to study the geology and atmosphere of Venus, our neighbouring planet, helping determine whether it was once habitable – and why Earth became the only known planet that can sustain life.

Bill Nelson makes his intro pitch for NASA programs and missions.

WATCH: UW-Milwaukee holds virtual commencement for Class of 2021 MILWAUKEE — The UW-Milwaukee Class of 2021 is celebrating graduation Sunday with a virtual commencement ceremony. The ceremony features a keynote address by UWM alum Darian Dixon, who is a spacecraft operations engineer for the Mars Perseverance rover. Over 3,000 students will receive their degrees Sunday. You can watch there ceremony below.

by Tyler Durden Friday, May 14, 2021 - 03:39 PM From currency war, to trade war, to tech war, to climate war, and now to space war, the superpower rivalry between the US and China continues to flare up with Beijing expected to land its rover on the red planet today.  CNET reports that the China National Space Administrations (CNSA) spacecraft, which has been orbiting Mars since February, is expected to enter the Martian atmosphere at 7:11 p.m. ET. CNET cites multiple Twitter accounts that...

Weighing about 550 pounds, the six-foot-long Orpheus drone cost nearly $2 million to build and was named for the Greek poet and prophet. The main goal for this next-generation mini-submarine that was engineered and constructed by WHOI in Massachusetts, will be to increase our knowledge of the deepest areas of our planet’s oceans known as the hadal zone. This exotic region is represented by radical trenches and troughs as deep as 20,000 to 36,000 feet, replicating challenges and conditions th...

The new underwater vehicle, called Orpheus, relies on autonomous navigation software developed by NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California for the Mars Perseverance rover and the Ingenuity helicopter. The primary task for the mini-submarine, which was built by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) in Massachusetts, will be to advance humanitys understanding of the deepest regions of the oceans, the so-called hadal zone. With trenches and troughs as deep as 20,000 to 36,000 ...

None of the students in Mr. Campbells seventh-hour class at the Battle Creek STEM Innovation Center are old enough to drive, but all of them can code a robot to parallel park. "We try the codes, and if they work, we keep them," sixth-grader Kailey Watkins explained matter-of-factly on Friday afternoon.  In addition to programming the LEGO EV3 to maneuver between lines of masking tape on the floor, Watkins and his project partner JhaNiece Turner built the robot.  "Its pretty simple," Watk...

07 May 2021, 11:05 pm NASAs Ingenuity helicopter has been undergoing several flights this year. This 2021 alone, it has already conducted four flights, but its latest trip to Mars is a major milestone for the space agency. Besides the risky landing on Mars surface, the fifth aerial trip is on a whole new level since its a one-way flight to the red planet. The most recent achievement will open a new mission for the aircraft in another dimension. NASA Ingenuity Helicopter Finishes One-Way Flight ...

Cassini’s ‘grand finale’ Cassini launched on Oct. 15, 1997, as a joint venture among NASA, the European Space Agency and Italy’s space agency, carrying a probe called Huygens that would be used to study Saturn’s largest moon, Titan. It took almost seven years for Cassini to arrive at Saturn, where it spent about 13 years in the planet’s orbit. After completing multiple missions over almost 20 years in space, Cassini was running low on rocket fuel used to adjust course in its orbit o...