World UFO Day! Today is World UFO Day, an annual event dedicated to the awareness and celebration of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) and the possibility of extraterrestrial life. The day aims to encourage people to think about the possibility of UFOs, discuss related phenomena, and promote government transparency about UFO sightings and investigations. The date...
The next step in a drill campaign is usually to continue the analysis with SAM (the Sample Analysis at Mars instrument suite), which tends to be quite power hungry. As a result, we want to make sure we’re going into the next plan with enough power for that. That meant that even though we’ve got a lot of free time this weekend, with three sols and CheMin taking up...
So the detection of planet TOI 4633 c was a welcome departure. That isn’t only because its 272-day orbit places it in fairly exclusive company: 175 transiting planets found so far with years longer than 100 days, and only 40 over 250 days. The planet, detected using TESS (the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite), also orbits in the habitable zone, the distance from...