NASA to announce 'exciting new discovery' about the moon today
4 hours ago
Oh, there's a flying telescope involved, too.
NASA wants you to get excited about the moon — or more specifically, about a mysterious new science result the agency plans to unveil today (Oct. 26).
For more details, we'll need to wait until a news conference at 12 p.m. EDT (1600 GMT) that day, which you'll be able to watch here at Space.com or directly through the agency's website.
A NASA statement announcing the news conference promises "an exciting new discovery about the moon" and references the agency's ambitious Artemis program to land astronauts at the moon's south pole in 2024. But the science itself comes from a long-running observatory, the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), a German-American partnership that made its first flight in 2007.
Click HERE to read the rest of the article.
4 hours ago
Oh, there's a flying telescope involved, too.
NASA wants you to get excited about the moon — or more specifically, about a mysterious new science result the agency plans to unveil today (Oct. 26).
For more details, we'll need to wait until a news conference at 12 p.m. EDT (1600 GMT) that day, which you'll be able to watch here at Space.com or directly through the agency's website.
A NASA statement announcing the news conference promises "an exciting new discovery about the moon" and references the agency's ambitious Artemis program to land astronauts at the moon's south pole in 2024. But the science itself comes from a long-running observatory, the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), a German-American partnership that made its first flight in 2007.
Click HERE to read the rest of the article.
