by Warp Institute | Aug 1, 2020 | Space
The European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter, a mission to study the solar wind and solar flares, has performed its first perihelion passage, i.e. flown past the point in its current orbit that’s closest to the Sun, and taken close-up photos from a record-short...
by Warp Institute | Jul 30, 2020 | Innovation, Space
This leap will be taken by a small helicopter called Ingenuity.It will both be easier and harder than to fly on Earth.Easier because the gravity on Mars is just 38 percent compared to Earth. Harder because the atmosphere is much thinner, only one percent of...
by Warp Institute | Jul 27, 2020 | Space
This story requires few words, because the pictures say it all!The footage from ElderFox Documentaries YouTube Channel has been viewed nearly 9 million times at the time of this post. They summarize the footage below:A world first. New footage from Mars rendered in...
by Warp Institute | Jul 24, 2020 | Space
China’s first mission to Mars lifted off on July 23rd from Wenchang, China, at 12:41PM local time. The journey to Mars will take seven months, meaning that the spacecraft will arrive at the red planet in February next year. Once there, Tianwen-1 will maneuver into a...
by Warp Institute | Jul 24, 2020 | Artificial Intelligence, Environment, Space
Leading emissions-tracking tech organizations have joined forces by creating the coalition Climate TRACE (Tracking Real-time Atmospheric Carbon Emissions) to provide real-time tracking of the entire world’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions as a service to be used in the...
