CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A Tokyo company aimed for the moon with its own private lander on Sunday, blasting off atop a SpaceX rocket with the United Arab Emirates’ first lunar rover and a toy-like robot from Japan designed to roll up there in the gray dust. It will take nearly five months for …
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Two holes are left in the Martian surface after NASA’s Perseverance rover used a specialized drill to collect the mission’s first regolith samples on December 2-6, 2022. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA’s Perseverance rover snagged two new samples from the Martian surface. Unlike the 15 rock cores collected to date, these newest samples came from a pile …
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Japan and Germany have a history of collaborating in science and technology ventures. The countries have a joint committee on science and technology cooperation which has met several times over the decades. Both countries have advanced and powerful economies and sophisticated technological know-how, so it makes sense for them to collaborate in scientific activities. This …
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This enhanced color photo mosaic from the Perseverance Mastcam-Z rover shows a butte near Jezero Crater informally dubbed “Kodiak” by the rover team. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS; edited by Jim Bell/ASU Rock samples from the Jezero crater analyzed by Nasa Founded in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the United …
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