“How do we use aerial mobility in the future on Mars, to help not just robotic exploration, but to help human exploration?”
Ellen Stofan
Smithsonian
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Nov 15, 2014
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Nov 14, 2014
With the clock ticking, mission managers weigh a plan to shift Philae's position and gain more exposure to the sun.
Nov 14, 2014
"Figuring out where high energy neutrinos come from is one of the biggest problems in astrophysics today," said Yang Bai, University of Wisconsin at Madison physicist.
Nov 14, 2014
Rosetta is the first mission designed to orbit and land on a comet. The €1.4 billion exploration campaign, the first to undertake a lengthy exploration of a comet at close quarters, builds on the first fly-bys of comets in the 1980s led by NASA, ESA, Russia and Japan.