Tag: Space Environment

NASA
NASA probes detect man-made bubble around Earth

Washington: Humans have long been shaping Earth’s landscape, but now scientists know that we also can shape our near-space environment with radio communications. The impact of such communications extend out beyond our atmosphere, creating a bubble surrounding Earth, NASA’s Van Allen Probes, which study electrons and ions in the near-Earth environment, have revealed. A certain […]

  • Monday, 05 July 2021
NASA's Mercury mission given last lease of life

Washington:NASA engineers have lifted the orbit of the Mercury probe – currently operating on an extended mission and almost out of fuel – and delayed its inevitable impact into Mercury’s surface by up to a month. Launched in August 2004, the $450 million MEercury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry and Ranging (Messenger) mission is currently orbiting […]

  • Tuesday, 22 June 2021
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