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The new image was created by combining multiple near-infrared images taken during a high-altitude flyby on November 13, 2015 (Supplied: NASA)
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Artist’s concept of Juno spacecraft. NASA
NASA’s Juno Spacecraft Loops into Orbit around Jupiter
After a five year journey from Earth to Jupiter, NASA’S Juno spacecraft made it with a do-or-die engine burn that looped it into orbit to probe the origins of the biggest planet in the solar system and how it impacted the rise of life on Earth, the U.S. space...Caption:
European Space Agency animation of Philae separating from mothership Rosetta and descending to surface of comet. (EPA/ESA/ATG Medialab)
European probe lands on comet, but fails to anchor down
Berlin and Frankfurt, Reuters—The European Space Agency landed a probe on a comet on Wednesday, a first in space exploration and the climax of a 10-year-odyssey, but an anchoring system problem may hamper planned investigations into the origins of Earth and the solar...Caption:
The Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo rocket explodes in mid-air during a test flight above the Mojave Desert in California October 31, 2014. (Reuters/Kenneth Brown)
Virgin Galactic spaceship crashes in California
Mojave, Reuters—Richard Branson is set to meet his Virgin Galactic space team in California’s Mojave Desert on Saturday following the crash of a passenger spaceship being developed by his company that killed one pilot and seriously injured the other. The...Caption:
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, right, looks at the monkey which allegedly rode an Iranian rocket into space, held by an unidentified technician, while director of Iran’s space agency Hamid Fazeli looks on. (AP Photo/Presidency Office, Arman Teimour)