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By: Amy Lyons Mars Mineral Match 11.14.2014 – NASA’s Curiosity rover drilled into a Martian mountain and has confirmed a mineral that was mapped out from a previous orbit. Curiosity amassed the powder by drilling into a rock outcrop at the base of Mount Sharp, located at Confidence Hill within the Pahrump Hills target outcrop, […]

  The European Space Agency’s Philae has become the first probe to ever land on a comet. The mission was conceived in the 80’s, and the rocket carrying Rosetta and Philae launched in 2004. After orbiting the Earth and Mars several time, and hibernating for over 3 years, Philae has finally made contact with the […]

In March of 2004 the European Space Agency (ESA) launched the Rosetta spacecraft and began its mission to become the first man-made object to land on a comet. on August 6, 2014 Rosetta made visual contact with the comet and prepared for rendezvous and insertion into orbit. Rosetta will stabilize its orbit in the coming […]

12.16.13- On Saturday China became the third country in the world to perform a soft unmanned landing on the moon. The Chang’e 3 lander set down on a region of the moon called the Sinus Iridum (Latin for “Bay of Rainbows”). This is the first lunar soft landing since the Soviet Union’s Luna 24 in […]