NASA’s Perseverance Rover Provides Sweeping View of Broom Point
Reported by NASA
Description This view looking back up at the outside lip of the 490-foot-tall (150-meter-tall) rim of Jezero Crater was taken by the Mastcam-Z instrument aboard NASA’s Perseverance on May 15, 2025, the 1,505th day, or sol, of the rover’s mission to Ma...
- By: NASA
- On: Wed, 15 Jul 2026 17:59 +0000
Perseverance’s Trip to ‘Broom Point’
Reported by NASA
Description This orbital map shows the path NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover took to get to a location the science team has dubbed the “Broom Point member,” a sequence of layered bedrock likely more than 3.9 billion years old. As planned, the rover la...
- By: NASA
- On: Wed, 15 Jul 2026 17:27 +0000
What's It Like to Travel Near the Speed of Light? Part 1: The Broken View
Reported by Universe Today
You can't ride alongside a beam of light, and the reason why opens a door onto the strangest parts of relativity. A tour of rest frames, why a photon has no point of view, and how your speed reshapes reality itself....
- By: Paul Sutter (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/pmsutter)
- On: Wed, 15 Jul 2026 15:41 +0000
Spiral Arms and Bars are Galactic Fuel Pumps for Star Formation
Reported by Universe Today
Astronomers thought that early galaxies were messy, clumpy, and turbulent from mergers. That means their gas was all stirred up. So what could explain the rapid star formation during the Cosmic Noon? New research shows that galaxies had well-ordered morpho...
- By: Evan Gough (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/ion23drive)
- On: Wed, 15 Jul 2026 15:38 +0000
NASA’s Perseverance Rover Reads Record of Ancient Mars Impacts
Reported by NASA
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover has uncovered evidence that a 245-foot-thick (75-meter-thick) stack of ancient rock on the rim of Jezero Crater was built by repeated asteroid impacts. Referred to as the “Broom Point member” by the rover’s science te...
- By: NASA
- On: Wed, 15 Jul 2026 15:30 +0000
Volunteer Measures Record Louisiana Rainfall
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Join a national community of precipitation reporters providing critical data to improve scientific understanding and forecasts....
- By: NASA
- On: Wed, 15 Jul 2026 12:32 +0000