Spacecraft articles
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A spacecraft captured images of "spiders" on the surface of Mars. Here's what they really are.
A unique phenomenon that could be mistaken for spiders scuttling across the planet's surface has been spotted on Mars, according to the European Space Agency.The ESA said in a news release that one of its Mars Express orbiter captured images of the "spiders," which are really just small, dark-colored features that begin to be formed when sunshine falls on carbon dioxide deposited during the planet's winter months. The light causes the carbon dioxide ice at the bottom of the deposits to turn into...
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NASA hears from Voyager 1, the most distant spacecraft from Earth, after months of quiet
NASA has finally heard back from Voyager 1 again in a way that makes sense. The most distant spacecraft from Earth stopped sending back understandable data last November. Flight controllers traced the blank communication to a bad computer chip and rearranged the spacecraft’s coding to work around the trouble. NASA’s
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Voyager spacecraft gave us a scare. But NASA's bringing it back to life.
NASA revealed that for the first time in five months it can check the status of its Voyager 1 spacecraft, which has traveled deeper into space than any other mission.