The 23-year-old orbiter is taking images that offer horizon-wide views of the Red Planet similar to what astronauts aboard the International Space Station see over Earth. NASA’s longest-lived Mars robot is about to mark a new milestone on June 30: 100,000 trips around the Red Planet since launching 23 years ago. During that time, the 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter has...
The first crew to take part in a yearlong NASA Mars analog mission reached the 300-day mark of its mission on April 20. The team of four volunteers entered the CHAPEA (Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog) habitat at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston on June 25, 2023, and is expected to complete the mission on July 6, 2024. During their 300 days in the...
The U.S. government’s standards-setting body released draft standards for three encryption algorithms that can resist attack by quantum computers, the final step in the algorithms’ development before they are ready for widespread use next year. On Thursday, the National Institute of Standards and Technology announced the draft standards, which will be...