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June 2020

Posted on 2020 Jun 24th by OAS

Wednesday June 24th, 2020

Time: 7:30 pm - 10:00 pm

Place: St Francis of Assisi Church Hall

Category: Monthly Society Meetings


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At @NASAglenn, engineers tested a model of our new Moon rover: a mobile robot that will roam the lunar South Pole. Our Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) will sample water ice at the same spot #Artemis astronauts are set to land: go.nasa.gov/2t5BjLl pic.twitter.com/o8rx…

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Fifteen years after ESA’s Huygens spacecraft accomplished the first-ever landing on Saturn’s moon Titan — and revealed jaw-dropping views of alien river channels — lessons learned from the mission are aiding the design of future planetary entry probes. spaceflightnow.com/2… pic.twitter.com/AZ2x…

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