NASA’s Artemis 1 delay to meteor crash on Mars; everything big that happened last week – Republic World

In the last few days, the space domain has seen some significant accomplishments with a pinch of disappointment. This past week, we saw an example of global cooperation with the launch of an American astronaut in a Russian rocket and the recent success of the James Webb Space Telescope which spotted rings around Neptune like never before. As we move into a new week, here is a quick recap of everything that happened in the last seven days.

Russia's state-owned space agency, Roscosmos launched NASA astronaut Frank Rubio along with cosmonautsSergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin in the MS-22 mission to the International Space Station (ISS). The trio was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on September 21 in a Soyuz rocket as part of the cross-flight agreement between NASA and Roscosmos. The launch was significant as space is currently the only area where the US and Russia are carrying out collaborative activities. All three members of MS-22 will spend six months aboard the ISS.

Earlier this week, NASA released a picture of Neptune with a clear view of the rings around it. Captured using the Webb telescope, the image also featured Neptune's Moon orbiting the planet. NASA explained that Neptune appears pale in this picturebecause Webb observed it in infrared. When observed in visible light, Neptune appears in a blue shade due to the presence of methane gas in its atmosphere. The planet's Moons were also spotted, the brightest of which is Triton due to 70% of sunlight being reflected from its atmosphere.

NASA's Insight lander on Mars, which the job of screening the planet's interior, picked up signals of meteor crashes that occurred between2020 and 2021. These signals were converted into sounds which NASA recently released. As explained by the agency, the impact sounds like a bloop "due to a peculiar atmospheric effectheard when bass sounds arrive before high-pitched sounds".

On September 24, NASA announced that it is standing down from the Artemis 1 launch opportunity available on September 27 due to the tropical storm Ian in the Caribbean Sea. The Moon mission was planned for launch during a 70-minute launch window opening at9:07 pm IST, however, teams are now mulling over rolling back the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket from the launch pad. A backup opportunity is available on October 3, given the rocket is not removed from the launch pad for protection from the approaching storm.

While Jupiter is at its closest in 59 years, Arizona-based astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy posted, what he says is his clearest shot of the gas giant. According to McCarthy, he produced the image by stitching together six lakh individual images he took using his 11-inch telescope. NASA says that Jupiter is currently 591 million kilometres away, the closest it has been since 1963.

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