Weekly space news - 4/Sep/2022
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Engineers at NASA solve a bug on the Voyager 1
The engineers at NASA managed to solve an issue with the Voyager 1 spacecraft (the first and only spacecraft made by man to pass the boundaries of the solar system) that was sending garbled information back to earth.
MOXIE makes oxygen on mars.
NASA’s Perseverance Rover continues to do wonders by making oxygen on mars. Inside NASA's Perseverance Rover sits a toaster-sized instrument called MOXIE. This device can produce about 6 grams of oxygen per hour — about the oxygen production rate of a small tree on Earth.
Artemis 1 launch was delayed twice in one week
Scheduled to launch on Monday, Artemis 1’s launch was postponed to Saturday due to technical difficulties only to be postponed again due to a fuel leak.
Webb telescope captures the first image of a planet outside Milky Way
For the first time, astronomers used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to capture an image of a gas giant outside our galaxy. Its latest pioneering pictures show the exoplanet, called HIP 65426 b, is a gas giant with no rocky surface
NASA captures a ghostly sound from a black hole
The sound was captured from a black hole at the center of the Perseus galaxy cluster which is light years away from earth. Scientists say that the sound is a result of pressure waves sent out by the black hole. NASA remarked that the absence of sound in space was a misconception.
