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"content": "\u003cp>An ancient space rock that may hold clues about\u003cb> \u003c/b>the formation of the solar system will be the next destination for New Horizons, the NASA probe that flew past Pluto three years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘While we do have some notions of things we might see, we really expect to be surprised.’\u003ccite>Jeff Moore, New Horizons researcher\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>NASA reestablished its connection with New Horizons overnight Monday. Since the Pluto flyby, the probe has continued to sail through space; it spent the last six months conserving power in hibernation mode. 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New Horizons captivated space fans in 2015 with detailed photos of Pluto’s frozen nitrogen surface, which features \u003ca href=\"https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/05/pluto-dunes-methane-winds-new-horizons-space-science/\">dunes\u003c/a> of methane sand and a giant formation in the shape of a heart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1925201\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/PlutoHeart.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1925201 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/PlutoHeart-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/PlutoHeart-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/PlutoHeart-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/PlutoHeart-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/PlutoHeart-960x960.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/PlutoHeart-240x240.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/PlutoHeart-375x375.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/PlutoHeart-520x520.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/PlutoHeart-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/PlutoHeart-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/PlutoHeart-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/PlutoHeart-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/PlutoHeart-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/PlutoHeart-150x150.jpg 150w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/06/PlutoHeart.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The large formation in the shape of a heart on Pluto’s surface is made of frozen nitrogen. \u003ccite>(NASA)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The probe—which runs, fittingly, on plutonium—is now about 40 times as \u003ca href=\"http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/Mission/Where-is-New-Horizons/index.php\">far away\u003c/a> as the sun. In the next few months, it will start pointing its cameras at the upcoming target—a county-sized object nicknamed Ultima Thule. 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"content": "\u003cp>We’ve hurled robots at Mars for over 50 years — on one-way flybys and orbital trajectories in space, and onto the surface by parachute, airbag, rocket-crane, landing-feet and even wheels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2020, NASA will add another mode of Martian locomotion to the history books: \u003cem>rotor-blades. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a few short years the \u003cem>Mars Helicopter\u003c/em> will fly the Martian skies to demonstrate how flying vehicles can expand a mission’s range of exploration and gain access to terrain unreachable by ground travel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Helicopters on Mars?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was inevitable. With the technological explosion of small, remotely controlled drones popping up everywhere in our lives, it was only a matter of time before one started buzzing the skies of another planet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/oOMQOqKRWjU\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In development at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/\">Jet Propulsion Laboratory\u003c/a> since 2013, and after numerous rounds of testing, redesign and re-testing on Earth, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/mars-helicopter-to-fly-on-nasa-s-next-red-planet-rover-mission\">Mars Helicopter\u003c/a> is ready to spin its light-weight propellers and test the air on the Red Planet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How Will It Get There?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mars Helicopter isn’t going alone. With a body only a few inches across and a total weight of about four pounds, this no-frills flying rotor-bot doesn’t carry the equipment or pack enough power for communicating with Earth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To be capable of propeller-driven flight in Mars’ thin atmosphere, it had to be designed as light as possible. This turns out to be an advantage in one way: it is small and light enough to hitch a ride on a larger cousin, \u003ca href=\"https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/mission/overview/\">NASA’s Mars 2020 rover\u003c/a>, set to launch in July 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”QXtw0NZJyhklG24CYkLasmK8IcSS4qwj”]The tiny vehicle will be tucked away in the underbelly of the rover, and at an opportune time in the 2020 mission will be lowered to the ground. The rover— which is nearly identical in size and appearance to the Curiosity rover now exploring Gale Crater — will then back away to a safe distance and serve as a communication relay with Earth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How Will the Helicopter Fly?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Earth, the highest recorded helicopter flight reached an altitude of about 40,000 feet, where the thinning atmosphere requires faster and faster rotor speeds to maintain lift. Most conventional helicopters are not capable even of reaching the \u003ca href=\"https://www.wired.com/2011/05/record-setting-high-altitude-helicopter-rescue-in-alaska/\">peaks of Earth’s highest mountains\u003c/a>, like Everest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Mars, the atmospheric pressure at ground level is equivalent to a 100,000-foot elevation on Earth. Obviously, Mars Helicopter isn’t your off-the-shelf drone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Its twin counter-spinning propeller blades will turn at 3,000 rotations per minute to lift the tiny craft off the ground, powered by a potent, lightweight lithium-ion battery that will be recharged by solar cells.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1924283\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1924283\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/05/marshelio-800x444.jpg\" alt='Depiction of Mars Helicopter flying over Martian terrain, demonstrating a capability for future landers and rovers to \"see over that next ridge\" or reach places inaccessible to ground travel. ' width=\"800\" height=\"444\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/05/marshelio-800x444.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/05/marshelio-160x89.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/05/marshelio-768x426.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/05/marshelio-672x372.jpg 672w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/05/marshelio-240x133.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/05/marshelio-375x208.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/05/marshelio-520x289.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/05/marshelio.jpg 818w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Depiction of Mars Helicopter flying over Martian terrain, demonstrating a capability for future landers and rovers to “see over that next ridge” or reach places inaccessible to ground travel. \u003ccite>(NASA/JPL-Caltech)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>NASA will test Mars Helicopter’s capabilities over a 30-day period, starting with simple, brief hops and gradually extending the flight distance and duration. The vehicle, once given its commands for a flight, will operate autonomously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The helicopter will spend nights on the ground, using battery-powered heaters to protect its equipment. Then, after the sun comes up the next day, it will recharge its batteries for its next aerial adventure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What will the Mars Helicopter tell us about Mars?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first of its kind, Mars Helicopter is more a test-of-concept project than a dedicated tool of scientific exploration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the test exercises are successful, the tiny, self-controlled drone will demonstrate the capability for future missions to perform aerial surveillance and to visit places that are hard to get to by ground travel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If mission scientists have sighed at images sent back from Mars thinking, “I wish we could see what’s just over that ridge,” they may soon get their wish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mars 2020 Rover\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Mars Helicopter is hopping about the alien desert blazing a sky-trail for next-generation chopper-bots, the Mars 2020 rover “mothership” will be going about its own mission to search for evidence of past Martian life — regardless of the fate of its flighty companion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1924260\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1924260\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/05/Mars2020rover-e1511961523753-800x350.jpg\" alt=\"Artist concept of NASA's Mars 2020 rover, which will launch in July 2020 on a mission to search for signs of ancient Martian life in rock samples. \" width=\"800\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/05/Mars2020rover-e1511961523753-800x350.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/05/Mars2020rover-e1511961523753-160x70.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/05/Mars2020rover-e1511961523753-768x336.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/05/Mars2020rover-e1511961523753-1020x446.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/05/Mars2020rover-e1511961523753-1200x525.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/05/Mars2020rover-e1511961523753-1180x516.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/05/Mars2020rover-e1511961523753-960x420.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/05/Mars2020rover-e1511961523753-240x105.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/05/Mars2020rover-e1511961523753-375x164.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/05/Mars2020rover-e1511961523753-520x228.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/05/Mars2020rover-e1511961523753.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Artist concept of NASA’s Mars 2020 rover, which will launch in July 2020 on a mission to search for signs of ancient Martian life in rock samples. \u003ccite>(NASA/JPL-Caltech)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Despite the flashy allure of the first extraterrestrial helicopter tour, the real meat of the mission is in the hands of the car-sized rover. Mars 2020 will employ \u003ca href=\"https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/08/170816112715.htm\">techniques for detecting residues\u003c/a> of ancient microbial life that have been developed to study the earliest life on Earth — giving it the potential to make one of the greatest scientific discoveries of all time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, the test-flights of a semi-autonomous flying drone may pave the way to an entirely new paradigm of planetary exploration.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Scientists have new evidence that there are plumes of water erupting from the surface of Jupiter’s icy moon Europa — plumes that could, maybe, possibly contain signs of life.[contextly_sidebar id=”lhhH3P0dzWqBFpmIC7odLSXqjw9Dj2bw”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The evidence comes from data collected by the now-defunct \u003ca href=\"https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/galileo/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Galileo\u003c/a> spacecraft. Although the data has been available since it was collected in 1997, it’s only now that an analysis confirms the existence of water plumes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For more than two decades, scientists have been convinced Europa has a liquid water ocean sloshing around beneath its icy outer crust. In the past six years, two teams of researchers using the Hubble Space Telescope reported the possible existence of plumes. But as powerful as Hubble is, seeing something as small as a plume on a moon more than 380-million miles away is difficult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re looking for effects that are relatively small, and are pushing the spatial resolution of the telescope,” says astrophysicist \u003ca href=\"http://www.stsci.edu/~deustua/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Susana Deutsua\u003c/a> of the Space Telescope Science Institute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nonetheless, it made sense that Europa had plumes, since the Cassini spacecraft had definitely seen water plumes from Enceladus, an icy moon orbiting Saturn that’s similar to Europa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we first saw those images, I think a lot of us in the community were very excited,” says planetary scientists \u003ca href=\"http://clasp.engin.umich.edu/people/xzjia/FACULTY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Xianzhe Jia\u003c/a> from the University of Michigan. Jia did his graduate work at the University of California Los Angeles where he focused on data collected by Galileo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A year ago, Jia heard a scientific talk about the plumes. He learned that they were near the equator of Europa, a region Galileo had flown directly over in 1997.[contextly_sidebar id=”dshL1joGFmqBaaAAwA9tY2XN40CLoiMX”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s the moment where we realized that we might have something in the old Galileo data that we never paid much attention to,” Jia says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Galileo recorded tons of data in the seven plus years it orbiting Jupiter. Jia was particularly familiar with data from an instrument known as a \u003ca href=\"https://junomag.gsfc.nasa.gov/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">magnetometer\u003c/a> that measures magnetic fields.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Turns out plumes give off a distinctive signal that a magnetometer can measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we look at those data carefully, what we found is there’s some strange magnetic signals in those data that have never been explained before,” Jai says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Jia and his colleagues report in the journal, \u003ca href=\"http://nature.com/articles/doi:10.1038/s41550-018-0450-z\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nature Astronomy\u003c/a>, the best explanation was the signals were indeed generated by plumes of water coming from Europa. This means future missions to Jupiter could fly through these plumes and look directly for signs of life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So why hadn’t scientists figured this out when these data were recorded back in the 1997?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.igpp.ucla.edu/people/mkivelson.html\">Margaret Kivelson\u003c/a> was principle investigator of the magnetometer on Galileo. She remembers puzzling over the magnetometer signals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says her team had already made the outlandish but ultimately accurate suggestion that there was a liquid ocean under Europa’s icy crust. “To go from there to also there are geysers coming up from that ocean, we just weren’t ready for that,” Kivelson says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kivelson has been studying Jupiter and its moons for a long time. She’s looking forward to NASA’s next mission to the giant planet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I hate to tell you how old I’ll be when the mission gets to Europa, but that’s OK,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kivelseon is 89 now. The mission may not arrive until 2028. You can do the math.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Icy+Moon+Of+Jupiter+Spews+Water+Plumes+Into+Space&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Scientists have new evidence that there are plumes of water erupting from the surface of Jupiter’s icy moon Europa — plumes that could, maybe, possibly contain signs of life.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The evidence comes from data collected by the now-defunct \u003ca href=\"https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/galileo/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Galileo\u003c/a> spacecraft. Although the data has been available since it was collected in 1997, it’s only now that an analysis confirms the existence of water plumes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For more than two decades, scientists have been convinced Europa has a liquid water ocean sloshing around beneath its icy outer crust. In the past six years, two teams of researchers using the Hubble Space Telescope reported the possible existence of plumes. But as powerful as Hubble is, seeing something as small as a plume on a moon more than 380-million miles away is difficult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re looking for effects that are relatively small, and are pushing the spatial resolution of the telescope,” says astrophysicist \u003ca href=\"http://www.stsci.edu/~deustua/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Susana Deutsua\u003c/a> of the Space Telescope Science Institute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nonetheless, it made sense that Europa had plumes, since the Cassini spacecraft had definitely seen water plumes from Enceladus, an icy moon orbiting Saturn that’s similar to Europa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we first saw those images, I think a lot of us in the community were very excited,” says planetary scientists \u003ca href=\"http://clasp.engin.umich.edu/people/xzjia/FACULTY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Xianzhe Jia\u003c/a> from the University of Michigan. Jia did his graduate work at the University of California Los Angeles where he focused on data collected by Galileo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A year ago, Jia heard a scientific talk about the plumes. He learned that they were near the equator of Europa, a region Galileo had flown directly over in 1997.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s the moment where we realized that we might have something in the old Galileo data that we never paid much attention to,” Jia says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Galileo recorded tons of data in the seven plus years it orbiting Jupiter. Jia was particularly familiar with data from an instrument known as a \u003ca href=\"https://junomag.gsfc.nasa.gov/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">magnetometer\u003c/a> that measures magnetic fields.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Turns out plumes give off a distinctive signal that a magnetometer can measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we look at those data carefully, what we found is there’s some strange magnetic signals in those data that have never been explained before,” Jai says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Jia and his colleagues report in the journal, \u003ca href=\"http://nature.com/articles/doi:10.1038/s41550-018-0450-z\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nature Astronomy\u003c/a>, the best explanation was the signals were indeed generated by plumes of water coming from Europa. This means future missions to Jupiter could fly through these plumes and look directly for signs of life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So why hadn’t scientists figured this out when these data were recorded back in the 1997?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.igpp.ucla.edu/people/mkivelson.html\">Margaret Kivelson\u003c/a> was principle investigator of the magnetometer on Galileo. She remembers puzzling over the magnetometer signals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says her team had already made the outlandish but ultimately accurate suggestion that there was a liquid ocean under Europa’s icy crust. “To go from there to also there are geysers coming up from that ocean, we just weren’t ready for that,” Kivelson says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kivelson has been studying Jupiter and its moons for a long time. She’s looking forward to NASA’s next mission to the giant planet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I hate to tell you how old I’ll be when the mission gets to Europa, but that’s OK,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kivelseon is 89 now. The mission may not arrive until 2028. You can do the math.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Icy+Moon+Of+Jupiter+Spews+Water+Plumes+Into+Space&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Update: May 4, 2018\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NASA’s mission to study the interior of the Red Planet is scheduled to launch Saturday, May 5 at 4:05 a.m. Pacific (7:05 a.m. Eastern). It will be the first planetary mission to launch from the West Coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://blogs.nasa.gov/insight\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">InSight launch blog\u003c/a> reports that meteorologists predict a 20 percent chance for favorable weather at \u003ca href=\"http://www.vandenberg.af.mil/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vandenberg Air Force Base\u003c/a> Space Launch Complex 3.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The launch may be visible between Santa Maria and San Diego, Calif, provided the weather is clear. If you are interested in watching the launch in person, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has a \u003ca href=\"https://mars.nasa.gov/insight/mission/timeline/launch/watch-in-person/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">website to guide you\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>InSight’s launch window is open from May 5 to June 8. As long as it takes off during this period, InSight will land on Mars on Nov. 26, in a region called “Elysium Planitia.” This flat, smooth plain was chosen as it’s considered a\u003ca href=\"https://mars.nasa.gov/insight/mission/timeline/prelaunch/landing-site-selection/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> relatively safe landing site\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Original post: NASA’s InSight Lander Prepares to Probe Unseen Regions of Mars\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NASA’s next Mars mission, InSight — designed to probe unseen depths on the Red Planet — has passed its latest check up and is readying for a spring launch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”TqAAM9kdlTfldgvqenKqQ5J6PcNW9SPG”]The lander passed the \u003ca href=\"https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=7044\">crucial test\u003c/a> of unfolding twin, origami-like solar panel arrays on January 23. Under illumination simulating Mars’ relatively weak daylight, InSight generated ample electrical power to run its systems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With a planned May launch fast approaching, and a landing expected in November, engineers are busy putting the robot through its final readiness tests to ensure its survival in the remote wilderness of Mars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, all systems go!\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1919376\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1919376\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/01/insightonmars-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Artist illustration of InSight on the surface of Mars. The SEIS seismometer instrument is showed on the ground after being deployed by InSight's robotic arm. \" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/01/insightonmars-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/01/insightonmars-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/01/insightonmars-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/01/insightonmars-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/01/insightonmars-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/01/insightonmars-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/01/insightonmars-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/01/insightonmars-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/01/insightonmars-520x293.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/01/insightonmars.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Artist illustration of InSight on the surface of Mars. The SEIS seismometer instrument is showed on the ground after being deployed by InSight’s robotic arm. \u003ccite>(NASA/JPL-Caltech)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Seeing Within\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike past missions, \u003ca href=\"https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/insight/\">InSight\u003c/a> (Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy, and Heat Transport) will focus on the interior of Mars, and not merely send us pictures of sculpted desert landscapes or analyses of Martian minerals scooped off the ground or drilled from rocks. Those are aspects of Mars’ outer surface, which represents only a tiny fraction of the planet’s overall physique— so, one could argue that we know as little about Mars as medieval physicians knew of the human body, before they began probing inward with surgery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”RhW22GOdOZxb229W6zm9G15wClYOOhop”]To get under Mars’ skin, InSight will use an unusual set of scientific instruments, called SEIS, HP3, and RISE.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SEIS\u003c/strong> (\u003ca href=\"https://mars.nasa.gov/insight/mission/instruments/seis/\">Seismic Experiment for Interior Structure\u003c/a>) is a seismometer that will listen for tectonic vibrations caused by possible Marsquakes, magma movement, meteorite impacts, and the gravitational influence of Mars’ larger moon, Phobos. How vibrations move through Mars can yield clues about its interior structure and composition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, imagine that medieval physician putting an ear to a patient’s chest or stomach, and learning something about the location and function of heart and stomach by what they hear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1919372\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1919372\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/01/insightinsitucutawayt-800x862.jpg\" alt=\"Cutaway illustration of InSight on Mars' surface. The HP3 thermal probe is shown on the right, and the SEIS seismometer on the left. \" width=\"800\" height=\"862\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/01/insightinsitucutawayt-800x862.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/01/insightinsitucutawayt-160x172.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/01/insightinsitucutawayt-768x828.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/01/insightinsitucutawayt-1020x1100.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/01/insightinsitucutawayt-1180x1272.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/01/insightinsitucutawayt-960x1035.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/01/insightinsitucutawayt-240x259.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/01/insightinsitucutawayt-375x404.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/01/insightinsitucutawayt-520x561.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/01/insightinsitucutawayt.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cutaway illustration of InSight on Mars’ surface. The HP3 thermal probe is shown on the right, and the SEIS seismometer on the left. \u003ccite>(NASA/JPL-Caltech)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>HP3\u003c/strong> (\u003ca href=\"https://mars.nasa.gov/insight/mission/instruments/hp3/\">Heat Flow and Physical Properties Package\u003c/a>) is a burrowing probe that will tunnel as deep as 16 feet below the surface, pulling a string of temperature sensors behind it. The sensors will measure the rate at which heat flows out of Mars to the surface.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Measurements from HP3 will give insight into the history of heat escaping from Mars — how quickly the core and mantle have cooled, and how this may have shaped the volcanic and tectonic evolution of the planet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Borrowing again from a medical analogy, modern forensic medical examiners use measurements of body core temperature to estimate time of death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”KYRuxCb6fpnP7q7w4L3ZSQnhKUzBzTNI”]\u003cstrong>RISE\u003c/strong> (\u003ca href=\"https://mars.nasa.gov/insight/mission/instruments/rise/\">Rotation and Interior Structure Experiment\u003c/a>) will measure the shift in frequency of InSight’s X-band radio waves to make precise measurements of motion — the motion of the lander, and by extension the Martian surface it rests on. RISE will look for small “wobbles” in Mars’ rotation, telltale “shimmies” that provide clues about its internal structure — not unlike how a washing machine in its spin cycle may vibrate or wobble in a particular way depending on the weight and balance of the laundry inside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1919373\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1919373\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/01/planetcutaways-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"The size and structure of Mars' core and mantle can provide clues about the planet's formation, as well as insight into the formation of all the rocky planets. \" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/01/planetcutaways-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/01/planetcutaways-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/01/planetcutaways-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/01/planetcutaways-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/01/planetcutaways-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/01/planetcutaways-520x293.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/01/planetcutaways.jpg 896w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The size and structure of Mars’ core and mantle can provide clues about the planet’s formation, as well as insight into the formation of all the rocky planets. \u003ccite>(NASA/JPL)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Combined with other measurements of Mars’ rotation made by earlier missions, the size and composition of this planet’s core may be deduced providing a window into how not only Mars, but all the rocky planets formed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rounding out the medical analogies, the technique used in RISE may be likened to a medical Doppler ultrasound, which uses the shift in frequency in sound waves to measure motions within a body. But that’s only an analogy, so don’t work it too hard. . . .\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Fruits of Past and Current Expeditions\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”sD1OdFyxCF4NIXYavY4hBSZ2Vh7Owzom”]Each lander or rover that has set down on Mars has offered something new in our understanding of our neighboring planet — and even though their investigations have been limited to Mars’ surface, their discoveries have been colossal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The twin Viking landers gave us our \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeApJ2nuYmY\">first pictures from the surface \u003c/a>— something that we are now very familiar with, but which was an epic event in 1976.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1919375\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 563px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1919375\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/01/firstcolorimageviking1.jpg\" alt=\"The first color image from the surface of Mars, taken by the Viking 1 lander on July 21st, 1976. \" width=\"563\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/01/firstcolorimageviking1.jpg 563w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/01/firstcolorimageviking1-160x146.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/01/firstcolorimageviking1-240x218.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/01/firstcolorimageviking1-375x341.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/01/firstcolorimageviking1-520x473.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 563px) 100vw, 563px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The first color image from the surface of Mars, taken by the Viking 1 lander on July 21st, 1976. \u003ccite>(NASA/JPL)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/mars-pathfinder\">Sojourner\u003c/a> rover, the first mobile lander, was able to travel to selected rocks and analyze their composition, the way a human geologist might move around a landscape investigating points of geological interest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://mars.nasa.gov/mer/overview/\">Mars Exploration Rovers\u003c/a> (Spirit and Opportunity) prospected over wide ranges with rock drills and microscopes to paint pictures of Mars’ watery, probably more Earthlike past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/mars-science-laboratory-curiosity-rover-msl/\">Mars Science Laboratory\u003c/a> (Curiosity) took on the challenge of scaling a mountain to investigate layers of sedimentation laid down over billions of years of Mars’ history, further opening the window to a young Mars possessing rivers, lakes, and seas of liquid water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/phoenix/main/index.html\">Phoenix\u003c/a> struck ice!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scientists are by no means finished exploring Mars’ surface — there’s still a lot it can tell us. But with InSight, they will now be able to peel back the skin and get a peek at Mars’ guts.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Under illumination simulating Mars’ relatively weak daylight, InSight generated ample electrical power to run its systems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With a planned May launch fast approaching, and a landing expected in November, engineers are busy putting the robot through its final readiness tests to ensure its survival in the remote wilderness of Mars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, all systems go!\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1919376\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1919376\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/01/insightonmars-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Artist illustration of InSight on the surface of Mars. 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Those are aspects of Mars’ outer surface, which represents only a tiny fraction of the planet’s overall physique— so, one could argue that we know as little about Mars as medieval physicians knew of the human body, before they began probing inward with surgery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>To get under Mars’ skin, InSight will use an unusual set of scientific instruments, called SEIS, HP3, and RISE.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SEIS\u003c/strong> (\u003ca href=\"https://mars.nasa.gov/insight/mission/instruments/seis/\">Seismic Experiment for Interior Structure\u003c/a>) is a seismometer that will listen for tectonic vibrations caused by possible Marsquakes, magma movement, meteorite impacts, and the gravitational influence of Mars’ larger moon, Phobos. How vibrations move through Mars can yield clues about its interior structure and composition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, imagine that medieval physician putting an ear to a patient’s chest or stomach, and learning something about the location and function of heart and stomach by what they hear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1919372\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1919372\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/01/insightinsitucutawayt-800x862.jpg\" alt=\"Cutaway illustration of InSight on Mars' surface. 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The sensors will measure the rate at which heat flows out of Mars to the surface.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Measurements from HP3 will give insight into the history of heat escaping from Mars — how quickly the core and mantle have cooled, and how this may have shaped the volcanic and tectonic evolution of the planet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Borrowing again from a medical analogy, modern forensic medical examiners use measurements of body core temperature to estimate time of death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>RISE\u003c/strong> (\u003ca href=\"https://mars.nasa.gov/insight/mission/instruments/rise/\">Rotation and Interior Structure Experiment\u003c/a>) will measure the shift in frequency of InSight’s X-band radio waves to make precise measurements of motion — the motion of the lander, and by extension the Martian surface it rests on. RISE will look for small “wobbles” in Mars’ rotation, telltale “shimmies” that provide clues about its internal structure — not unlike how a washing machine in its spin cycle may vibrate or wobble in a particular way depending on the weight and balance of the laundry inside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1919373\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1919373\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/01/planetcutaways-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"The size and structure of Mars' core and mantle can provide clues about the planet's formation, as well as insight into the formation of all the rocky planets. \" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/01/planetcutaways-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/01/planetcutaways-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/01/planetcutaways-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/01/planetcutaways-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/01/planetcutaways-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/01/planetcutaways-520x293.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/01/planetcutaways.jpg 896w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The size and structure of Mars’ core and mantle can provide clues about the planet’s formation, as well as insight into the formation of all the rocky planets. \u003ccite>(NASA/JPL)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Combined with other measurements of Mars’ rotation made by earlier missions, the size and composition of this planet’s core may be deduced providing a window into how not only Mars, but all the rocky planets formed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rounding out the medical analogies, the technique used in RISE may be likened to a medical Doppler ultrasound, which uses the shift in frequency in sound waves to measure motions within a body. But that’s only an analogy, so don’t work it too hard. . . .\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Fruits of Past and Current Expeditions\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>Each lander or rover that has set down on Mars has offered something new in our understanding of our neighboring planet — and even though their investigations have been limited to Mars’ surface, their discoveries have been colossal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The twin Viking landers gave us our \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeApJ2nuYmY\">first pictures from the surface \u003c/a>— something that we are now very familiar with, but which was an epic event in 1976.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1919375\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 563px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1919375\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/01/firstcolorimageviking1.jpg\" alt=\"The first color image from the surface of Mars, taken by the Viking 1 lander on July 21st, 1976. \" width=\"563\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/01/firstcolorimageviking1.jpg 563w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/01/firstcolorimageviking1-160x146.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/01/firstcolorimageviking1-240x218.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/01/firstcolorimageviking1-375x341.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/01/firstcolorimageviking1-520x473.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 563px) 100vw, 563px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The first color image from the surface of Mars, taken by the Viking 1 lander on July 21st, 1976. \u003ccite>(NASA/JPL)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/mars-pathfinder\">Sojourner\u003c/a> rover, the first mobile lander, was able to travel to selected rocks and analyze their composition, the way a human geologist might move around a landscape investigating points of geological interest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://mars.nasa.gov/mer/overview/\">Mars Exploration Rovers\u003c/a> (Spirit and Opportunity) prospected over wide ranges with rock drills and microscopes to paint pictures of Mars’ watery, probably more Earthlike past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/mars-science-laboratory-curiosity-rover-msl/\">Mars Science Laboratory\u003c/a> (Curiosity) took on the challenge of scaling a mountain to investigate layers of sedimentation laid down over billions of years of Mars’ history, further opening the window to a young Mars possessing rivers, lakes, and seas of liquid water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/phoenix/main/index.html\">Phoenix\u003c/a> struck ice!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>When the Chinese space station \u003ca href=\"http://www.aerospace.org/cords/reentry-predictions/tiangong-1-reentry/\">Tiangong-1 blazed a trail\u003c/a> through Earth’s atmosphere and came showering down over the ocean’s waters in a rain of super-hot debris on April 2 it was a fiery reminder of the thousands of satellites and space junk orbiting overhead, and the occasional fall of a bit of it to Earth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1923003\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 480px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1923003 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/radarimages-tiangong-ESA-Fraunhofer-FHR.jpg\" alt=\"Radar images of Tiangong-1 captured in the week before its reentry. The images are from Germany's Tracking and Imaging Radar system.\" width=\"480\" height=\"274\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/radarimages-tiangong-ESA-Fraunhofer-FHR.jpg 480w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/radarimages-tiangong-ESA-Fraunhofer-FHR-160x91.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/radarimages-tiangong-ESA-Fraunhofer-FHR-240x137.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/radarimages-tiangong-ESA-Fraunhofer-FHR-375x214.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Radar images of Tiangong-1 captured in the week before its reentry. The images are from Germany’s Tracking and Imaging Radar system. \u003ccite>(ESA / Fraunhofer / FHR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>When Satellites Fall\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.wired.com/story/the-space-junk-problem-is-about-to-get-a-whole-lot-gnarlier/\">Everything we place in orbit\u003c/a> will eventually be slowed down by atmospheric drag and fall back toward Earth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On average, at least one piece of space debris de-orbits each day, though most of them are small enough — smaller than an SUV — to burn up completely before reaching the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The burn-and-crash of \u003ca href=\"http://spaceflight101.com/spacecraft/tiangong-1/\">Tiangong-1\u003c/a> was a bigger concern than usual: 34 feet in length and with a mass of 18,753 pounds, the satellite was roughly the size of a school bus. Because of its size, an estimated 10 to 40 percent of the space station probably survived its fiery re-entry. Fortunately it fell harmlessly into Pacific waters between Hawaii and California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"ATV-1 reentry\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/OhBw5yaR_SU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen>\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Above: Re-entry breakup of Europe’s freighter ATV “Jules Verne,” which disintegrated harmlessly over the Pacific Ocean in 2015\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Had anyone been on hand to watch the spectacle, they might have witnessed something like the \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZ5vkiazP1s\">re-entry breakup of the fictitious Tiangong station\u003c/a> depicted in the Alfonso Cuaron film, Gravity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>This Has Happened Before, and Will Again\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fall of Tiangong-1 isn’t the first time a large space station has de-orbited. Russia’s MIR station was brought down in a controlled re-entry on March 23, 2001. An attached rocket motor nudged it to lower and lower altitudes, where it broke apart in Earth’s atmosphere and fell harmlessly in pieces into the southern Pacific Ocean, near Fiji.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1923009\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1923009\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/skylab-1-800x538.jpg\" alt=\"Skylab, the first major space station. Launched in 1973. \" width=\"800\" height=\"538\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/skylab-1-800x538.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/skylab-1-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/skylab-1-768x516.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/skylab-1-240x161.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/skylab-1-375x252.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/skylab-1-520x349.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/skylab-1.jpg 921w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Skylab, the first major space station. Launched in 1973. \u003ccite>(NASA)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>NASA’s Skylab came down in July 1979 in a mostly uncontrolled orbital decay that left the world wondering, “Where will it fall and is there any danger?” The spectacle became a worldwide media-palooza, complete with betting pools, reward offers for recovered fragments, and in some cases panic over an impending rain of hot metal from the sky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I personally recall having a dream that Skylab crashed down in my own backyard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though NASA tried to direct the re-entry to the ocean south of Capetown, South Africa to minimize the chances of hitting land, cities, or people, Skylab’s disintegration took longer than expected, \u003ca href=\"https://www.esperanceexpress.com.au/story/4787047/the-day-skylab-landed-in-esperance/\">scattering debris over a wide range across Southwestern Australia\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Do You Feel Lucky?\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>NASA calculated the probability of a piece of Skylab hitting a person at 1 in 152, and with the global population of 4 billion at the time, the odds of any specific person being struck were 1 in 600 billion — safer odds even than winning the Super Lotto jackpot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To anyone’s knowledge, no one was hit. One seventeen-year-old, however, collected 24 pieces of Skylab debris, earning a bounty of $10,000 from the San Francisco Examiner for the first piece brought to its offices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How Much Junk Is Up There, Anyway?\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>Today, Earth is \u003ca href=\"http://stuffin.space/\">encompassed by a shroud\u003c/a> of human-made litter, everything from non-functioning satellites, spent rocket boosters, and ejected payload nosecones, to fragmentation debris formed by their destruction. Most of this is in low-Earth orbit, within 500 miles of the Earth’s surface.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1923017\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1923017\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/spacejunk-nasa-800x640.jpg\" alt=\"Map of artificial objects in orbit around Earth. The high-density sphere of objects in low-Earth orbit hugs the Earth, while the sparser population out toward the geosynchronous distance forms a ring. \" width=\"800\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/spacejunk-nasa-800x640.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/spacejunk-nasa-160x128.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/spacejunk-nasa-768x614.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/spacejunk-nasa-1020x816.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/spacejunk-nasa-1200x960.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/spacejunk-nasa-1180x944.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/spacejunk-nasa-960x768.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/spacejunk-nasa-240x192.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/spacejunk-nasa-375x300.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/spacejunk-nasa-520x416.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/spacejunk-nasa.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Map of artificial objects in orbit around Earth. The high-density sphere of objects in low-Earth orbit hugs the Earth, while the sparser population out toward the geosynchronous distance forms a ring. \u003ccite>(NASA/JPL)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>An estimated 170 million bits of debris smaller than a centimeter, 670,000 objects between 1 and 10 centimeters, and 29,000 larger objects orbit the Earth — which would make me nervous if I were an astronaut on the International Space Station. Since orbital speeds range as high as 17,000 miles per hour, even a rogue flake of paint can put a hole in a functioning satellite or human-bearing spacecraft. In fact, this has happened, though with no human casualties so far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U. S. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>When the Chinese space station \u003ca href=\"http://www.aerospace.org/cords/reentry-predictions/tiangong-1-reentry/\">Tiangong-1 blazed a trail\u003c/a> through Earth’s atmosphere and came showering down over the ocean’s waters in a rain of super-hot debris on April 2 it was a fiery reminder of the thousands of satellites and space junk orbiting overhead, and the occasional fall of a bit of it to Earth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1923003\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 480px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1923003 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/radarimages-tiangong-ESA-Fraunhofer-FHR.jpg\" alt=\"Radar images of Tiangong-1 captured in the week before its reentry. The images are from Germany's Tracking and Imaging Radar system.\" width=\"480\" height=\"274\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/radarimages-tiangong-ESA-Fraunhofer-FHR.jpg 480w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/radarimages-tiangong-ESA-Fraunhofer-FHR-160x91.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/radarimages-tiangong-ESA-Fraunhofer-FHR-240x137.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/radarimages-tiangong-ESA-Fraunhofer-FHR-375x214.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Radar images of Tiangong-1 captured in the week before its reentry. The images are from Germany’s Tracking and Imaging Radar system. \u003ccite>(ESA / Fraunhofer / FHR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>When Satellites Fall\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.wired.com/story/the-space-junk-problem-is-about-to-get-a-whole-lot-gnarlier/\">Everything we place in orbit\u003c/a> will eventually be slowed down by atmospheric drag and fall back toward Earth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On average, at least one piece of space debris de-orbits each day, though most of them are small enough — smaller than an SUV — to burn up completely before reaching the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The burn-and-crash of \u003ca href=\"http://spaceflight101.com/spacecraft/tiangong-1/\">Tiangong-1\u003c/a> was a bigger concern than usual: 34 feet in length and with a mass of 18,753 pounds, the satellite was roughly the size of a school bus. Because of its size, an estimated 10 to 40 percent of the space station probably survived its fiery re-entry. Fortunately it fell harmlessly into Pacific waters between Hawaii and California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"ATV-1 reentry\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/OhBw5yaR_SU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen>\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Above: Re-entry breakup of Europe’s freighter ATV “Jules Verne,” which disintegrated harmlessly over the Pacific Ocean in 2015\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Had anyone been on hand to watch the spectacle, they might have witnessed something like the \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZ5vkiazP1s\">re-entry breakup of the fictitious Tiangong station\u003c/a> depicted in the Alfonso Cuaron film, Gravity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>This Has Happened Before, and Will Again\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fall of Tiangong-1 isn’t the first time a large space station has de-orbited. Russia’s MIR station was brought down in a controlled re-entry on March 23, 2001. An attached rocket motor nudged it to lower and lower altitudes, where it broke apart in Earth’s atmosphere and fell harmlessly in pieces into the southern Pacific Ocean, near Fiji.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1923009\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1923009\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/skylab-1-800x538.jpg\" alt=\"Skylab, the first major space station. Launched in 1973. \" width=\"800\" height=\"538\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/skylab-1-800x538.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/skylab-1-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/skylab-1-768x516.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/skylab-1-240x161.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/skylab-1-375x252.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/skylab-1-520x349.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/skylab-1.jpg 921w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Skylab, the first major space station. Launched in 1973. \u003ccite>(NASA)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>NASA’s Skylab came down in July 1979 in a mostly uncontrolled orbital decay that left the world wondering, “Where will it fall and is there any danger?” The spectacle became a worldwide media-palooza, complete with betting pools, reward offers for recovered fragments, and in some cases panic over an impending rain of hot metal from the sky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I personally recall having a dream that Skylab crashed down in my own backyard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though NASA tried to direct the re-entry to the ocean south of Capetown, South Africa to minimize the chances of hitting land, cities, or people, Skylab’s disintegration took longer than expected, \u003ca href=\"https://www.esperanceexpress.com.au/story/4787047/the-day-skylab-landed-in-esperance/\">scattering debris over a wide range across Southwestern Australia\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Do You Feel Lucky?\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>NASA calculated the probability of a piece of Skylab hitting a person at 1 in 152, and with the global population of 4 billion at the time, the odds of any specific person being struck were 1 in 600 billion — safer odds even than winning the Super Lotto jackpot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To anyone’s knowledge, no one was hit. One seventeen-year-old, however, collected 24 pieces of Skylab debris, earning a bounty of $10,000 from the San Francisco Examiner for the first piece brought to its offices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How Much Junk Is Up There, Anyway?\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>Today, Earth is \u003ca href=\"http://stuffin.space/\">encompassed by a shroud\u003c/a> of human-made litter, everything from non-functioning satellites, spent rocket boosters, and ejected payload nosecones, to fragmentation debris formed by their destruction. Most of this is in low-Earth orbit, within 500 miles of the Earth’s surface.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1923017\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1923017\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/spacejunk-nasa-800x640.jpg\" alt=\"Map of artificial objects in orbit around Earth. The high-density sphere of objects in low-Earth orbit hugs the Earth, while the sparser population out toward the geosynchronous distance forms a ring. \" width=\"800\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/spacejunk-nasa-800x640.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/spacejunk-nasa-160x128.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/spacejunk-nasa-768x614.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/spacejunk-nasa-1020x816.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/spacejunk-nasa-1200x960.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/spacejunk-nasa-1180x944.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/spacejunk-nasa-960x768.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/spacejunk-nasa-240x192.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/spacejunk-nasa-375x300.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/spacejunk-nasa-520x416.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/spacejunk-nasa.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Map of artificial objects in orbit around Earth. 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The one that I’m most excited about is the seismometer, because it will measure quakes on Mars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Venton: Why do we want to know about earthquakes — not earthquakes, I guess they’re called marsquakes. Why do we want to know about quakes on Mars? I think a lot of people would be surprised to even know that there are quakes that happen in space.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hawkins: Yeah, they’re not part of the popular consciousness as evidenced by our stumbling in terms of how we call it, what do we call it. Marsquake, or earthquake, or earthquakes on the moon. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Scientists are about to measure seismic activity on Mars for the first time. NASA is set to launch the InSight lander as early as May 5, carrying a seismometer to the red planet.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘We can travel across the solar system and do investigations that will give us insight as to how we came to be and how we’re evolving.’\u003ccite>Isabel Hawkins, Exploratorium\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The goal: learning how planets are born. Like Earth, Mars and other rocky planets have a crust, mantle and core. And Mars \u003ca href=\"http://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/ucla-scientist-discovers-plate-237303\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">has tectonic plates\u003c/a>, too, although fewer than Earth does.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earth is like an egg shell, with its surface broken in many small pieces. Over billions of years, these actively shifting tectonic plates have hidden much of our planet’s ancient history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mars has fewer breaks in its crust, and the planet’s surface is breaking at a very slow pace. So Mars, at an earlier phase in its geologic evolution, offers the chance to see an infant version of our home planet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>InSight, which stands for Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, will spend about six months traveling to Mars. And before InSight heads off on its mission, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is taking a \u003ca href=\"https://mars.nasa.gov/insight/participate/roadshow/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">model of the lander \u003c/a>on a roadshow. Bay Area residents can catch \u003ca href=\"https://www.exploratorium.edu/visit/calendar/insight-lander-april-18-to-22-2018\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">InSight at the Exploratorium\u003c/a> in San Francisco, April 18-22.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1922463\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1922463\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/PIA22232-full-800x400.jpg\" alt=\"A map of the red planet.\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/PIA22232-full-800x400.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/PIA22232-full-160x80.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/PIA22232-full-768x384.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/PIA22232-full-1020x510.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/PIA22232-full-1200x600.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/PIA22232-full-1920x960.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/PIA22232-full-1180x590.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/PIA22232-full-960x480.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/PIA22232-full-240x120.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/PIA22232-full-375x188.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/PIA22232-full-520x260.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">InSight’s Landing Site: Elysium Planitia. This region is a a flat-smooth plain just north of the equator. \u003ccite>(NASA/JPL-CalTech)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Venton: So, we’re here at the webcast studio at the Exploratorium and there’s going to be a very special visitor here in a few days. \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hawkins: That’s right, we have the whole team from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena that’s coming to share with us all the excitement of the InSight Lander.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Venton: So there will be a model of it here. It has some kind of interesting equipment on it. What do you think is especially important?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>Hawkins: There are three scientific instruments aboard the InSight Lander. The one that I’m most excited about is the seismometer, because it will measure quakes on Mars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Venton: Why do we want to know about earthquakes — not earthquakes, I guess they’re called marsquakes. Why do we want to know about quakes on Mars? 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I mean it starts to get confusing, but as a matter of fact there are moonquakes, for example, in our own satellite, our own moon.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/7Dc-8WOtJPY'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/7Dc-8WOtJPY'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>There are also ioquakes in one of the moons of Jupiter and there have been research studies that have shown that there are plate tectonics, or evidence of plate tectonics, which are the drivers of many earthquakes here on Earth. Also, that another moon of Jupiter, called Europa, has evidence for such plate tectonics. 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"content": "\u003cp>Have you ever gazed up at the night sky and wondered which stars might have planets, what those worlds may be like, or if there could be some form of life on any of them? When I was a child, I did a lot of that sort of imagining — decades before the first scientific detection of an \u003ca href=\"https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/the-search-for-life/exoplanets-101/\">extrasolar planet\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”zPtcY42nMEbLmJsJhCQj2y06wlfTs2CH”]We now live in an era of \u003cem>knowing\u003c/em> that the galaxy teems with planets, and that probably most, if not all stars possess multiple worlds. Anyone born after 1992 has lived their entire life without needing to imagine if there are planets around other stars — we know they are there!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On April 16th we enter another era of exoplanet discovery, with the launch of NASA’s \u003ca href=\"https://tess.gsfc.nasa.gov/\">Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite \u003c/a>spacecraft. TESS will be propelled by a \u003cem>SpaceX\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"http://www.spacex.com/falcon9\">Falcon-9 rocket\u003c/a> into a \u003ca href=\"https://www.technobyte.org/satellite-communication/low-medium-high-earth-orbits-types-of-orbits/\">high-Earth orbit\u003c/a>, a lofty vantage point that will offer sweeping views of space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1922343\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1922343\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/trappistplanets-nasa-goddard-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Artist illustration of the seven Earth-sized exoplanets discovered in the nearby TRAPPIST-1 system. Three of these are located within their star's habitable zone, and could have liquid water on their surfaces. \" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/trappistplanets-nasa-goddard.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/trappistplanets-nasa-goddard-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/trappistplanets-nasa-goddard-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/trappistplanets-nasa-goddard-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/trappistplanets-nasa-goddard-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/trappistplanets-nasa-goddard-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Artist illustration of the seven Earth-sized exoplanets discovered in the nearby TRAPPIST-1 system. Three of these are located within their star’s habitable zone, and could have liquid water on their surfaces. \u003ccite>(NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>From that high orbit, TESS will engage in a two-year survey of 500,000 stars across the entire sky, searching for planets by the “transit” method: measuring the temporary dimming of a star’s light when one of its planets passes in front of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What We Know About Exoplanets\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>The search for extrasolar planets is not a new thing. We’ve been finding them \u003ca href=\"https://futurism.com/the-first-exoplanet-was-discovered-25-years-ago-today/\">since 1992\u003c/a>, 26 years ago! As of April 2018, a \u003ca href=\"https://exoplanetarchive.ipac.caltech.edu/\">total\u003c/a> of 3,711 exoplanets of all sizes have been confirmed to exist. Their abundance tells us that most, if not all, stars in the galaxy likely possess at least one, and probably multiple, planets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NASA’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/kepler/main/index.html\">Kepler spacecraft\u003c/a>, launched in 2009, set out to find the more elusive “Earth-like” exoplanets: world’s close to Earth’s size that could support liquid water on their surfaces, within their star’s “Habitable Zone.” Among the 2,600 exoplanets that Kepler has discovered, at least a couple dozen fall into this category.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1922344\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1922344 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/transitmethod-nasa-800x543.jpg\" alt=\"The "transit method" of detecting exoplanets relies on a planet passing in front of (transiting) its star and causing a detectable dimming in the star's light. \" width=\"800\" height=\"543\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/transitmethod-nasa-800x543.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/transitmethod-nasa-160x109.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/transitmethod-nasa-768x521.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/transitmethod-nasa-1020x692.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/transitmethod-nasa-1180x800.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/transitmethod-nasa-960x651.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/transitmethod-nasa-240x163.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/transitmethod-nasa-375x254.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/transitmethod-nasa-520x353.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/transitmethod-nasa.jpg 1722w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The “transit method” of detecting exoplanets relies on a planet passing in front of (transiting) its star and causing a detectable dimming in the star’s light. \u003ccite>(NASA)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kepler’s sampling suggests that there may be \u003cem>billions\u003c/em> of these Earth-like worlds in the galaxy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Naturally, scientists want to know more about these potential other-Earths. (So do I!) What are they made of? Do they have atmospheres? Do they have oceans? Most tantalizing of all, do they support life?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unfortunately, most of the potentially Earth-like worlds we have discovered are too far away for us to learn much more than their sizes and how close they are to their stars. Their great distances from us make more detailed investigations extremely challenging, to say the least.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1922345\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1922345 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/tess-vs-kepler-zack-berta-thompson-800x596.jpg\" alt=\"Illustration comparing the regions of stars observed by Kepler and those to be surveyed by TESS. \" width=\"800\" height=\"596\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/tess-vs-kepler-zack-berta-thompson-800x596.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/tess-vs-kepler-zack-berta-thompson-160x119.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/tess-vs-kepler-zack-berta-thompson-768x572.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/tess-vs-kepler-zack-berta-thompson-1020x760.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/tess-vs-kepler-zack-berta-thompson-960x715.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/tess-vs-kepler-zack-berta-thompson-240x179.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/tess-vs-kepler-zack-berta-thompson-375x279.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/tess-vs-kepler-zack-berta-thompson-520x387.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/tess-vs-kepler-zack-berta-thompson.jpg 1050w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Illustration comparing the regions of stars observed by Kepler and those to be surveyed by TESS. \u003ccite>(Zack Berta-Thompson)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What’s New About TESS?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike the Kepler mission, which focused on very distant stars in one small patch of the sky, TESS will survey the nearest stars in our neighborhood of the galaxy, and across the entire sky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>TESS will detect exoplanets of all types, but its main goal is to look for small, \u003ca href=\"https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/resources/15/earth-and-super-earth/\">Earth- and super-Earth sized planets, \u003c/a>orbiting stars much closer to us and \u003ca href=\"https://tess.gsfc.nasa.gov/whytess.html\">much brighter\u003c/a> than those Kepler observed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both of these factors will make detailed investigation by other observatories and spacecraft possible — including the upcoming \u003ca href=\"https://www.jwst.nasa.gov/\">James Webb Space Telescope\u003c/a>, which will be tasked with measuring the temperature and atmospheric composition of these nearby worlds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This may tell us if a planet has the necessary ingredients for life–liquid water and organic compounds. We might even detect the chemical telltales of life itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1922346\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1922346\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/tess-startypes-mit-800x570.jpg\" alt=\"Graph showing the size and brightness of stars observed by Kepler and those to be observed by TESS. TESS will focus on brighter, nearby stars that are much easier to investigate with follow-up observations. \" width=\"800\" height=\"570\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/tess-startypes-mit-800x570.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/tess-startypes-mit-160x114.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/tess-startypes-mit-768x547.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/tess-startypes-mit-1020x727.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/tess-startypes-mit-1180x841.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/tess-startypes-mit-960x684.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/tess-startypes-mit-240x171.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/tess-startypes-mit-375x267.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/tess-startypes-mit-520x371.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/tess-startypes-mit.jpg 1372w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Graph showing the size and brightness of stars observed by Kepler and those to be observed by TESS. TESS will focus on brighter, nearby stars that are much easier to investigate with follow-up observations. \u003ccite>(MIT)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How Strange Might Strange New Worlds Be?\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>As that child gazing up at the starry skies, I imagined some pretty wild possibilities for those yet-undiscovered worlds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Imagine a planet-wide desert, stretching pole to pole, that is so cold that carbon dioxide lies frozen on the ground. Or a searing hot landscape with a corrosive atmosphere that is so thick it would crush you like an aluminum can. Or a cloud-darkened milieu where the rain, rivers and seas are cryogenic liquid methane and you would weigh only 20 pounds. Or a world covered entirely by a hundred-mile-deep ocean hiding under a crust of ice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1922348\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 587px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1922348\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/exoworlds-nasa.jpg\" alt=\"Imaginative poster art produced by NASA illustrating future human explorers enjoying the strange environments of some exoplanets we have discovered. \" width=\"587\" height=\"247\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/exoworlds-nasa.jpg 587w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/exoworlds-nasa-160x67.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/exoworlds-nasa-240x101.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/exoworlds-nasa-375x158.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/exoworlds-nasa-520x219.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 587px) 100vw, 587px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Imaginative poster art produced by NASA illustrating future human explorers enjoying the strange environments of some exoplanets we have discovered. \u003ccite>(NASA)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And these are only descriptions of some of the planets and moons in our \u003cem>own\u003c/em> solar system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>TESS is projected to find at least 1,500 exoplanets orbiting nearby stars, and of these at least 300 are expected to be near-Earth sized. Once we begin to probe the environmental conditions on those planets, imagine what we might find.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Have you ever gazed up at the night sky and wondered which stars might have planets, what those worlds may be like, or if there could be some form of life on any of them? When I was a child, I did a lot of that sort of imagining — decades before the first scientific detection of an \u003ca href=\"https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/the-search-for-life/exoplanets-101/\">extrasolar planet\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>We now live in an era of \u003cem>knowing\u003c/em> that the galaxy teems with planets, and that probably most, if not all stars possess multiple worlds. Anyone born after 1992 has lived their entire life without needing to imagine if there are planets around other stars — we know they are there!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On April 16th we enter another era of exoplanet discovery, with the launch of NASA’s \u003ca href=\"https://tess.gsfc.nasa.gov/\">Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite \u003c/a>spacecraft. TESS will be propelled by a \u003cem>SpaceX\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"http://www.spacex.com/falcon9\">Falcon-9 rocket\u003c/a> into a \u003ca href=\"https://www.technobyte.org/satellite-communication/low-medium-high-earth-orbits-types-of-orbits/\">high-Earth orbit\u003c/a>, a lofty vantage point that will offer sweeping views of space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1922343\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1922343\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/trappistplanets-nasa-goddard-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Artist illustration of the seven Earth-sized exoplanets discovered in the nearby TRAPPIST-1 system. Three of these are located within their star's habitable zone, and could have liquid water on their surfaces. \" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/trappistplanets-nasa-goddard.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/trappistplanets-nasa-goddard-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/trappistplanets-nasa-goddard-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/trappistplanets-nasa-goddard-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/trappistplanets-nasa-goddard-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/trappistplanets-nasa-goddard-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Artist illustration of the seven Earth-sized exoplanets discovered in the nearby TRAPPIST-1 system. Three of these are located within their star’s habitable zone, and could have liquid water on their surfaces. \u003ccite>(NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>From that high orbit, TESS will engage in a two-year survey of 500,000 stars across the entire sky, searching for planets by the “transit” method: measuring the temporary dimming of a star’s light when one of its planets passes in front of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What We Know About Exoplanets\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>The search for extrasolar planets is not a new thing. We’ve been finding them \u003ca href=\"https://futurism.com/the-first-exoplanet-was-discovered-25-years-ago-today/\">since 1992\u003c/a>, 26 years ago! As of April 2018, a \u003ca href=\"https://exoplanetarchive.ipac.caltech.edu/\">total\u003c/a> of 3,711 exoplanets of all sizes have been confirmed to exist. Their abundance tells us that most, if not all, stars in the galaxy likely possess at least one, and probably multiple, planets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NASA’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/kepler/main/index.html\">Kepler spacecraft\u003c/a>, launched in 2009, set out to find the more elusive “Earth-like” exoplanets: world’s close to Earth’s size that could support liquid water on their surfaces, within their star’s “Habitable Zone.” Among the 2,600 exoplanets that Kepler has discovered, at least a couple dozen fall into this category.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1922344\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1922344 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/transitmethod-nasa-800x543.jpg\" alt=\"The "transit method" of detecting exoplanets relies on a planet passing in front of (transiting) its star and causing a detectable dimming in the star's light. \" width=\"800\" height=\"543\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/transitmethod-nasa-800x543.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/transitmethod-nasa-160x109.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/transitmethod-nasa-768x521.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/transitmethod-nasa-1020x692.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/transitmethod-nasa-1180x800.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/transitmethod-nasa-960x651.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/transitmethod-nasa-240x163.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/transitmethod-nasa-375x254.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/transitmethod-nasa-520x353.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/transitmethod-nasa.jpg 1722w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The “transit method” of detecting exoplanets relies on a planet passing in front of (transiting) its star and causing a detectable dimming in the star’s light. \u003ccite>(NASA)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kepler’s sampling suggests that there may be \u003cem>billions\u003c/em> of these Earth-like worlds in the galaxy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Naturally, scientists want to know more about these potential other-Earths. (So do I!) What are they made of? Do they have atmospheres? Do they have oceans? Most tantalizing of all, do they support life?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unfortunately, most of the potentially Earth-like worlds we have discovered are too far away for us to learn much more than their sizes and how close they are to their stars. Their great distances from us make more detailed investigations extremely challenging, to say the least.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1922345\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1922345 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/tess-vs-kepler-zack-berta-thompson-800x596.jpg\" alt=\"Illustration comparing the regions of stars observed by Kepler and those to be surveyed by TESS. \" width=\"800\" height=\"596\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/tess-vs-kepler-zack-berta-thompson-800x596.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/tess-vs-kepler-zack-berta-thompson-160x119.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/tess-vs-kepler-zack-berta-thompson-768x572.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/tess-vs-kepler-zack-berta-thompson-1020x760.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/tess-vs-kepler-zack-berta-thompson-960x715.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/tess-vs-kepler-zack-berta-thompson-240x179.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/tess-vs-kepler-zack-berta-thompson-375x279.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/tess-vs-kepler-zack-berta-thompson-520x387.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/tess-vs-kepler-zack-berta-thompson.jpg 1050w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Illustration comparing the regions of stars observed by Kepler and those to be surveyed by TESS. \u003ccite>(Zack Berta-Thompson)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What’s New About TESS?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike the Kepler mission, which focused on very distant stars in one small patch of the sky, TESS will survey the nearest stars in our neighborhood of the galaxy, and across the entire sky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>TESS will detect exoplanets of all types, but its main goal is to look for small, \u003ca href=\"https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/resources/15/earth-and-super-earth/\">Earth- and super-Earth sized planets, \u003c/a>orbiting stars much closer to us and \u003ca href=\"https://tess.gsfc.nasa.gov/whytess.html\">much brighter\u003c/a> than those Kepler observed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both of these factors will make detailed investigation by other observatories and spacecraft possible — including the upcoming \u003ca href=\"https://www.jwst.nasa.gov/\">James Webb Space Telescope\u003c/a>, which will be tasked with measuring the temperature and atmospheric composition of these nearby worlds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This may tell us if a planet has the necessary ingredients for life–liquid water and organic compounds. We might even detect the chemical telltales of life itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1922346\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1922346\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/tess-startypes-mit-800x570.jpg\" alt=\"Graph showing the size and brightness of stars observed by Kepler and those to be observed by TESS. 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