This Week @NASA: Practicing Artemis Moonwalks, VIPER Moon Rover Test, Dawn of a Sun-Like Star

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NASA astronaut Kate Rubins observes a geology sample she collected during a simulated moonwalk. Credit: NASA/Josh ValcarcelA few of the stories to tell you about – This Week at NASA!, a field team, including NASA astronauts Kate Rubins and Andre Douglas, practiced moonwalk scenarios, performed technology demonstrations, and conducted hardware checkouts and other Artemis science-related operations.

VIPER will search the Moon for ice and other potential resources ahead of future Artemis astronaut missions to the lunar surface. The PREFIRE mission will send two CubeSats – shown as an artist’s concept against an image of Earth from orbit – into space to study how much heat the planet absorbs and emits from its polar regions, including the Arctic and Antarctica. Credit: NASA/JPL-CaltechMuch of our planet’s polar heat loss is in far-infrared wavelengths and has never been systematically measured. The first of the mission’s two shoebox-sized satellites is targeted to launch no earlier than May 22.

This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image captures a triple-star star system. Credit: NASA, ESA, G. Duchene ; Image Processing: Gladys Kober One of the stars – called HP Tau – is a type of young variable star that hasn’t begun nuclear fusion yet but is beginning to evolve into a hydrogen-fueled star like our Sun. This type of star tends to be younger than our Sun is around 4.6 billion years old.SciTechDaily: Home of the best science and technology news since 1998. Keep up with the latest scitech news via email or social media.

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