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Siding Spring Clears Mars, Program Which Discovered it is Shut Down
By 2014.10.21 0 Comments Read More →

Siding Spring Clears Mars, Program Which Discovered it is Shut Down

Siding Spring Imaged By MRO’s HiRISE Camera. Image Credit NASA/JPL-Caltech The Siding Spring comet which gave Mars a close shave on Sunday was a bit smaller than many had predicted. NASA Story on Siding Spring Image From MRO’s HiRISE camera: These images were taken of comet C/2013 A1 Siding Spring by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter […]

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NASA’s Asteroid Retrieval Mission May Lack a Viable Target
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NASA’s Asteroid Retrieval Mission May Lack a Viable Target

A Future in Space Operations presentation earlier this week by Dan Adamo, which can be found here, highlights a potential serious problem with NASA’s proposed asteroid capture mission.  The presentation focuses on a “V” plot  which shows a range of Near Earth Asteroids grouped into three different classes by their orbital characteristics.  Some NEAs falling within […]

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