Uplifting Echoes

NASA Spacecraft Snaps Stunning Mars Views During Flyby - The Weather Channel

NASA's Psyche spacecraft successfully used Mars' gravity to boost its speed by 1,000 mph during a close flyby last week, while capturing stunning images of the Red Planet from unique angles.

The largest known organism on Earth isn't a whale or a tree — it's a single fungus growing underground in Oregon's Malheur National Forest, covering nearly four square miles, mostly invisible, estimated to be between two and eight thousand years old and slo - Space Daily

In 1988, a forest pathologist named Greg Whipple, working for the United States Forest Service in eastern Oregon, was investigating a pattern of tree deaths in the Malheur National Forest. The trees were grand firs, ponderosa pines, and other conifers the For…

The Milky Way may have devoured another galaxy named Loki, and astronomers think they've found its remains - Space

"We might have detected one of the various small systems that contributed to form our Milky Way."

In April 1970, the crew of Apollo 13 navigated home by holding the spacecraft against the terminator of the Earth, the line where day met night on the planet they were trying to reach, timing a fourteen-second engine burn with a wristwatch because their guidan - Space Daily

With the Apollo Guidance Computer shut down to save battery power for reentry, the crew of Apollo 13 navigated home by holding the lunar terminator in a window crosshair and timing engine burns with an Omega Speedmaster wristwatch.

NASA lays out moon base plans with landers, buggies and drones at the top of the list - NPR

The space agency outlined the first phase of its moon base plans on Tuesday, awarding hundreds of millions of dollars in contracts to four U.S. companies.

When NASA's 77-tonne Skylab station fell out of orbit in 1979 and scattered debris across Western Australia, the Shire of Esperance did the only reasonable thing: it fined the United States $400 for littering. - Space Daily

In July 1979, after debris from the re-entering American space station Skylab came down across a stretch of Western Australia, the Shire of Esperance issued NASA a 400-dollar ticket for littering. The detail that the popular version tends to drop, and the one…

Put down the camera phone for images your memory can't delete - Axios

Your mind doesn't charge storage fees for memories.

Your Blood May Contain an Evolutionary Relic Older Than Animals Themselves - ScienceAlert

You probably don't think much about the blood running through your veins on a daily basis.

When the Galileo spacecraft's main antenna failed to unfurl on the way to Jupiter, engineers salvaged the mission by rewriting its software across deep space, compressing its data and squeezing a flagship science return through a low-gain antenna never me - Space Daily

Galileo, NASA’s flagship mission to Jupiter, launched in 1989, and on 11 April 1991 its large high-gain antenna failed to open as commanded. The mission was not abandoned. Over the following years a workaround was built, centred on new software both on the sp…