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NASA’s historic Mars helicopter Ingenuity may have crash-landed, ending its three-year mission on Red Planet

February 06, 2024 -

The small copter made its last flight on Jan. 18 but lost contact with the command's team and when communication was recovered, one of the Ingenuity's blades displayed damage.

Ingenuity was initially designed to carry out up to five experimental test flights over 30 days when it first landed in 2023. But the $85 million space helicopter exceeded all of NASA's expectations by being able to fly 72 times and travel distances more than 14 times further than initially planned ...

Top Russian astronomer mysteriously ends up in hospital after FAILED moon mission

August 23, 2023 -

Russia's first moon mission in 47 years was launched on Aug. 11 from the Vostochny Cosmodrome. The Russian rocket bore the lunar probe Luna-25. But on Aug. 19, the Luna-25 spacecraft spun out of control and crashed on the moon after experiencing a problem while preparing for pre-landing orbit.

"It is so sad that it was not possible to land the apparatus," said Mikhail Marov, a leading physicist and astronomer. One of the leading figures in the space program of the former ...

NASA’s next lunar mission could discover existence of life on the moon

June 21, 2023 -

NASA's Artemis 3 mission will be the first human lunar landing since Apollo 17 in December 1972 – the final flight of the Apollo program. Apollo 17 astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt were the last humans to walk on the moon.

The Artemis 3 mission is intended to be the first of a number of human missions to the Artemis Polar Exploration Zone, the region poleward of 84 degrees south latitude. So far, only one Artemis mission has been launched – Artemis 1, which ...

MOXIE instrument aboard NASA’s Mars rover produces enough oxygen to keep an astronaut alive for a few hours on Mars

September 14, 2023 -

The MOXIE instrument has made 122 grams of oxygen since it landed on Mars in 2021 – just enough oxygen to support an astronaut for about three hours and 40 minutes. Experts believe the MOXIE instrument's achievement could be used to create future versions of the device that can store and create even more oxygen to assist future astronauts.

MOXIE first created oxygen in April 2021, and has now pulled oxygen a total of 16 times from the Martian atmosphere.

The ...

Biden secretly sent CIA director on a “diplomatic mission” to China last month

June 05, 2023 -

CIA Director William Burns' trip to Beijing has been the highest-level visit by any member of Biden's administration since both nations became entangled over the Chinese spy balloon's flight across the U.S. earlier this year.

It also comes as China and the U.S. grow increasingly at odds with each other over issues such as the South China Sea, the future of the democratic and self-governing island of Taiwan and the Russian special military operation in Ukraine. (Related: ...

Putin says it is Russia’s mission to create a “new world” free from American hegemony

October 06, 2023 -

Putin made this statement on Thursday, Oct. 5, during the annual summit of the Russian think tank the Valdai Discussion Club in the Black Sea resort town of Sochi. "We are, in fact, faced with the task of building a new world," he said.

He further claimed that the United States and the rest of the Western world have spurned Moscow's "goodwill" and efforts to build a "new and fairer world order" after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, including by rebuffing the ...

German explorer and adventurer said mini-sub trip to view Titanic is a ‘suicide mission’

June 22, 2023 -

Arthur Loibl, who visited the site in 2021 in the OceanGate Titan submersible, told the media he felt "incredibly lucky" to have survived the dive.

“It was a suicide mission back then!” Loibl told the German outlet Bild, adding that on his first voyage, the sub did not operate correctly and that there were “electrical problems."

The Telegraph adds:

Mr. Loibl said he was on the voyage with OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush and Paul-Henry Nargeolet – both of whom ...

Mission accomplished as Iran depletes Israel’s air defense munitions… defensive action “likely cost over $1 billion”

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Brigadier General Reem Aminoach, a former financial adviser to Israel's military, stated that Israel's defense costs for just the one night that Iran retaliated for the embassy were massive, while Iran spent next to nothing.

"The defense tonight was on the order of 4-5 billion shekels (between $1 and $1.3 billion)," Aminoach estimated as to the cost of defending against the Iranian attack.

Iran, meanwhile, only spent the equivalent of less than $100 million to attack ...

Scientists determine Mars’ crust is similar to HEAVY ARMOR in some areas

June 29, 2023 -

Scientists made this conclusion following a marsquake that occurred in May 2022, which had a magnitude of 4.6 – the largest ever recorded on Mars. The May 2022 tremor was recorded by the InSight Lander, which measured seismic waves on the Red Plant for three years. Originally deployed by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in 2018, the InSight Lander's mission ended in December 2022.

The May 2022 marsquake was of much importance to NASA scientists, ...

China’s Mars rover finds proof of LIQUID WATER on the Red Planet

May 05, 2023 -

A paper published April 28 in Science Advances elaborated on the rover's discovery, noting that it found signs of liquid water at sand dunes located at low latitudes. These dunes pointed toward the planet's equator and away from its poles.

Since landing in Mars' northern hemisphere in May 2021, the Zhurong rover has traveled to four crescent-shaped dunes in the Utopia Planitia area to examine their surface composition. The dunes located close to each other are coated with ...

The gods are going against the chosen people – Mammon against Israel, Mars against the Pentagon

November 01, 2023 -

(Article republished from JohnHelmer.net)

This means attacking the invincibility of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and their so-called Iron Dome defence; this began with the cross-border offensive on October 7, and continues with daily drone and artillery attacks on targets inside Israel, as well as resistance to IDF incursions in Gaza.

The plan also means exposing the weakness of the state’s infrastructure and economy; extending the battlefield across all of ...

Thick water ice found buried at Mars’ equator is enough to cover entire planet in water

February 26, 2024 -

The probe is part of the European Space Agency’s Mars Express mission, which has been conducting research on the planet for two decades. Although it is not the first time that evidence has pointed to the presence of ice at Mars’ equator beneath the Medusae Fossae Formation, this is the biggest deposit of ice found there by far.

The ESA reports that the dusty ice under the Red Planet’s equator is very thick, extending around 2.3 miles underground with a top layer of ...

Scientist claims NASA discovered ALIEN LIFE on Mars 50 years ago, but the agency may have accidentally KILLED it

September 05, 2023 -

Schulze-Makuch said NASA conducted an experiment that involved adding water to the soil, which drowned any life hidden in the Martian landscape.

The Viking Labeled Release experiment first returned positive for metabolism, but a related investigation found no trace of organic material.

According to Schulze-Makuch, the water containing a nutrient solution in the soil may have contained too much liquid and that "[any life] died off" eventually.

Skeptics ...

THREE IN ONE GO: Huge solar eruption hits Earth, the moon and Mars all at once for the first time in history

August 11, 2023 -

While the solar storm was identified on Oct. 28, 2021, scientists who studied the event only reported their findings recently. The October 2021 solar blast was only the 73rd ground-level enhancement since records began in the 1940s, and none have been recorded since. Nevertheless, it was the first time a solar storm has struck three planetary surfaces synchronously.

An international group of spacecraft identified the blast, discovering the particles were active enough ...

India’s Chandrayaan-3 first to land near the moon’s south pole

August 27, 2023 -

Chandrayaan-3, bearing the lunar lander Vikram, successfully landed near the moon's south pole, making India just the fourth nation to make a successful landing on the lunar surface and the first in history to land near the moon's south pole.

Chandrayaan-3 was launched on July 14 and entered lunar orbit on Aug. 5 transporting Vikram. This was India's second attempt at a moon landing after the failure of Chandrayaan-2, which crashed into the lunar surface in 2019.

"India ...

NASA plans to MINE THE MOON by early 2030s, says rocket scientist

July 07, 2023 -

Gerald Sanders, a rocket scientist at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, said America's space agency will at the beginning look into the development of oxygen and water on the moon and will later contemplate exploiting minerals on the moon like iron and rare earth minerals.

"We are trying to invest in the exploration phase, understand the resources… to [lower] risk, such that external investment makes sense that could lead to development and production," Sanders announced ...

NASA and private companies to launch BUSINESS on the MOON within the next decade

August 11, 2023 -

The Artemis missions aim to establish a sustained human presence on the moon, paving the way for future extraplanetary colonization and resource utilization. With a potential market value of over $100 billion, the moon is poised to become a hub of economic activity and commerce. "Definitely the moon is going to be a big business," stated Prachi Kawade, a senior analyst at NSR, a space market research and consulting firm.

NASA's ambitious endeavor has caught the attention ...

Skittles panders to Black Americans while selling them prepackaged diabetes

August 18, 2023 -

(Article by B.L. Hahn republished from TheFederalist.com)

The bad news is that consuming excess amounts will dramatically increase your risk of diabetes, cancer, and other diseases. According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, black Americans are 60 percent more likely than whites to be diagnosed with diabetes. What does this have to do with Skittles? Mars recently released a new version of Skittles with the phrase “black trans lives matter” on the packaging....

Skittles are the latest Bud Light after releasing trans BLM packaging

August 14, 2023 -

(Article by Steve Watson republished from Summit.news)

The normal red and rainbow packaging has been replaced with black and white packet replete with a trans flag and the phrase “Black Trans Lives Matter”.

The confectionary, owned by the Wrigley Company, in turn owned by Mars Incorporated, has also whacked a drag queen on the packet for good measure.

The packaging was designed along with the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation organisation.

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