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Archive for February, 2021

I wrote a song with the first Mars sounds recorded by NASA’s Perseverance rover

February 24th, 2021 by

I wrote a song using the first audio ever recorded on the surface of Mars, captured by NASA’s Perseverance rover.

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The search for dark matter gets a speed boost from quantum technology

February 24th, 2021 by

Nearly a century after dark matter was first proposed to explain the motion of galaxy clusters, physicists still have no idea what it’s made of.

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Scintillating discovery: These distant ‘baby’ black holes seem to be misbehaving — and experts are perplexed

February 24th, 2021 by

Radio images of the sky have revealed hundreds of “baby” and supermassive black holes in distant galaxies, with the galaxies’ light bouncing around in unexpected ways.

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Relativity Space readies for its first launch of 3D-printed rocket later this year

February 24th, 2021 by

As Relativity Space plans to launch its 3D-printed Terran 1 rocket late this year, key market indicators show a company growing so quickly that it’s attracting massive investor attention.

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SpaceX fires up SN10 Starship prototype for 1st time to prep for test flight

February 24th, 2021 by

SpaceX’s Starship SN10 vehicle performed its first static fire test on Tuesday (Feb. 23), lighting up its three Raptor engines for a few seconds at SpaceX’s South Texas site.

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Internet sleuths solve secret message on Perseverance rover’s Mars parachute

February 23rd, 2021 by

NASA hid a secret message on the parachute that landed its Perseverance rover down on the surface of Mars last week.

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What is the cosmological constant?

February 23rd, 2021 by

What we know about the history and properties of “Einstein’s biggest mistake,” the cosmological constant

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Listen to the Mars wind blow in these 1st sounds from the Perseverance rover

February 23rd, 2021 by

The recording, which features mechanical whirring from the Perseverance rover and the rustle of a Mars breeze, is the first true audio ever captured on the surface of a planet other than Earth.

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