ARTEMIS 1 on its way to the moon

                                         The 32-storey tall, most powerful rocket ever built so far

has successfully lifted off this morning 

on its test journey towards and around the moon.

Link to: Jonathan Amos's article for BBC Science

Long March 5B space debris

 

Space.com are focusing on this recurring problematic issue.

Link to: "A Chinese rocket body will fall Friday and we don't know where."

Harvesting and beaming solar energy from space

 

Emma Woollacott's recent article for the BBC

neatly summarizes what the basic concept

and related current projects are all about.

Link to: "How solar farms in space might beam electricity to Earth"

The Pillars of Creation Revisited

 Pure Beauty

 perceived through the James Webb Space Telescope

Link to: https://webbtelescope.org/

Zhurong still going strong

 

For exactly a year today

China's Tianwen-1 probe has been busy

exploring and adjusting to its harsh Martian environment.

Link to: "Tianwen-1 mission marks first year on Mars"

Growing plants in lunar soil

 

Recent experiments have shown that

"terrestrial plants are capable of growth in lunar regolith"

but that major "metabolic challenges need to be surmounted".

Link to: "NASA-funded study breaks new ground in plant research"

Link to: "Plants grown in Apollo lunar regolith present stress-associated transcriptomes that inform prospects for lunar exploration"