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Infrared spectra of light (red), heavy (blue), semi-heavy (gray) water and ionic substances have been determined in the current study. Red, white and black circles represent oxygen, hydrogen and deuterium atoms, respectively. The arrow indicates the direction of vibrational deformation of the substance. Credit: Skoltech Skoltech scientists and researchers at the University of Stuttgart have shown that the concentration of …

enlarge / The Atlas V payload fairing with NASA’s Mars 2020 perseverance rover will arrive at the vertically integrated facility this week. Welcome to version 3.07 of Rocket Report! This week, we were approaching the opening of the Martian launch window, which is about once every two years, when the earth is aligned with the red planet. It appears that …

Florida Kennedy Space Center – Hope to be the charm of SpaceX’s next Starlink launch for the third time. The company said its goal is to send its tenth network of radiating satellites and other shared spacecraft later on Saturday. The new Falcon 9 launch window is scheduled to take off from Kennedy Space Center 39A at 30:54 am. About …

Dust cloud NASA has just provided a huge amount of money to Pioneer Space Company, which claims to collect lunar repolymers and convert them into usable oxygen. Pioneer Aerospace is one of four companies that received funding through the newly established second round of NASA Small Business Innovation Research Program, TechCrunch report. The company will spin off a total of …

Cartoon of an elderly fruit fly enjoying his breakfast. The effect of calorie restriction diet on fruit fly aging and longevity is not uniform among different strains. A new study studies small molecules involved in cell metabolism to understand why this inconsistency occurs. Image source: Alice C. Gray A Drosophila study found that changes in some small molecules involved in …

On July 7, 2020, the front cone of the Mars 2020 Perpetual Rover was located at Cape Canaveral Air Force Base, Florida on a motorized payload carrier. Credit: NASA / KSC NASAPerseverance Mars The rover has been installed on top of the rocket and will be sent to the Red Planet this summer. On Tuesday, July 7, the Mars Rover …

nAsa’s mission to explore metal-rich asteroids has achieved important milestones in this week’s development. Strict design reviews ensure that everyone is satisfied that the spacecraft will perform as expected. Now that the review has been passed, engineers can begin to make all kinds of spacecraft hardware seriously, and the clock is ticking. They must be ready by February 2021 so …

Apollo inserts 16 shots at a rate of 12 to 60 frames per second / Boing Boing DAIN is an AI-driven method for adding “lost” footage. Standard interpolation treats existing frames as flat fields of color and contrast, but AI models the depth of areas in the scene, making the results more persuasive and less “stained”. Let’s go to the …

An unofficial observer encountered a rare failure when SpaceX Falcon 9 recovered by drone was ready for transportation. The landing leg got rid of the shackles and fell on the drone’s deck because the booster was ready to return to SpaceX. No one was injured in the incident, and the hardware appeared to have withstood the incident without obvious damage. …

It is not an easy task to make a list of all living things on Earth, but scientists have now developed a plan to plan how to successfully deal with this daunting challenge. Potential solutions outline 10 key principles that list makers should follow, and a set of agreed rules on classification and credit. Currently, there are several competitive lists …