Weekly space news - 30/Oct/22

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NASA to return first-ever samples from Mars.

Nasa’s scientists have chosen a few samples from Mars for the Preservance rover to return to the Earth. This will be the first time Martian samples have been returned to Earth.

Scientists capture the sound of the Earth’s magnetic field.

Scientists at the Technical University of Denmark recently converted the magnetic signals captured by the ESA’s Swarm satellite mission into sound. Here is the audio:

Tiangong almost complete; one more launch left

The Chinese space station Tiangong is almost complete. CNSA plans to launch the last rocket around Oct. 31 Beijing time.

ESA’s spacecraft captures 2 eclipses in one day

This week, the European Space Agency’s Proba-2 spacecraft caught two partial solar eclipses in one day. Here is a video:

New weather satellite to study Earth’s atmosphere

The new JPSS-2 satellite built by NASA and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) will launch into space aboard an Atlas V rocket.