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NASA Simplified High Impact Energy Landing Device SHIELD Crash Land Mars
While turning Martian soil into cement may take a few more years of research, NASA engineers are already developing a Simplified High Impact Energy Landing Device (SHIELD) to crash land on Mars. Why? They found the easiest way to get to the Martian surface is to crash and instead of a spacecraft’s high-speed descent, SHIELD would use an accordion-like, collapsible base that acts like the crumple zone of a car to absorb the energy.

NASA NEOWISE Space Telescope 12 Year Time-Lapse Sky
NASA’s Near-Earth Object Wide Field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) space telescope recently completed its one trip halfway around the Sun, taking images in all directions and compiling them into an amazing 12 year time-lapse of the sky. This formed a map showing the location and brightness of hundreds of millions of objects utilizing 18 all-sky maps produced by the spacecraft.