Here are today’s most important updates from the realm of Science and Space.
Mars, one of Earth's nearest neighbours, has been explored for finding extraterrestrial life for a long time. The recent discovery by NASA’s perseverance rover on Red Planet surface has excited scientists and space enthusiasts. The rover captured an image of a formation resembling desiccated and decaying human head. The Right Mastcam-Z camera of perseverance rover captured this unique image on September 27, 2024 (Sol 1282) at the local mean solar time of 11:50:05. The robotic technology by NASA and other space agencies provided useful information about Red Planet's surface, skies, odd formations and features. The formation looks like a chunk of sedimentary sandstone, not so familiar with surrounding rocks, which has generated both fear and optimism.
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Distantly operated rovers could soon be operating on the moon, with the human controllers from Earth. By manipulating the tools of rovers virtually, essential functions like taking samples, digging or assembling are expected to conduct. Scientists from the robotics laboratory at the University of Bristol have already tested the newly developed teleoperations system at the European Space Agency's (ESA) European Centre for Space Applications and Telecommunications at Harwell in Oxfordshire. The whole process negates the requirements of camera feeds. These robotic missions could be future of advanced space exploration in coming years. Even, the system could train astronauts by providing realistic simulation.
Researchers at Ohio State University revealed the reasons behind short attention span among kids. The children show a tendency of scattered attention while gathering too many details that divert them from main objective. The findings suggest that short attention span among young children is normal and part of their cognitive development. As children’s brains attain maturity, concentration skills and prioritizing relevant information gradually develop. Kids have a natural tendency (innate curiosity in scientific terminology) to explore environment. According to the published article: “kids distribute their attention broadly either out of simple curiosity or because their working memory isn't developed enough to complete a task without overexploring”.
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captured new features of the spiral galaxy Messier 90 or M90, also called NGC 4569, situated approximately 55 million light-years from Earth. However, M90 is one of the rare galaxies slowly getting closer to the earth. As per recent data, M90’s orbit through the Virgo cluster has accelerated so high that the galaxy will soon escape the cluster totally. The recently collected view of M90 focused on the dusty disk, gaseous halo and its bright core. While other galaxies in Virgo cluster are moving in opposite direction, M90 continues to move toward us.
