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100 resources for Hardware and Electrical Engineers - AllSpice.io

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Abundant ammonia and nitrogen-rich soluble organic matter in samples from asteroid (101955) Bennu - Nature Astronomy

paper

Homochirality - Wikipedia

mystery of life’s homochirality

Sylvite - Wikipedia

sylvite

Trona - Wikipedia

trona

An evaporite sequence from ancient brine recorded in Bennu samples - Nature

paper

Liquid on Mars was not necessarily all water

could have been formed by liquid CO2 instead

Mineral alteration in water-saturated liquid CO2 on early Mars - Nature Geoscience

paper

These Bizarre Features on Mars are Caused by Carbon Dioxide Geysers

CO2 geysers

https://archive.ph/wqnqJ

has quietly worked with SpaceX

NASA pauses work of science groups, citing Trump executive orders

pause their work due to executive orders

Argonaut: a first European lunar lander

$900M contract

Argonaut

Argonaut Luna

ESA enlists Thales Alenia Space for mission to Venus

$383M ESA contract

Wyvern's Open Data Program - Free Hyperspectral Data

started publicly sharing EO images

x.com

super cool timelapse

https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2025/01/following-flight-7-starship-flight-8/

What’s up next for Starship, and what hardware will fly when?

- YouTube

timelapse video

NASA’s New Deep Space Network Antenna Has Its Crowning Moment - NASA

The antenna is the fifth out of six new antennas being built across the network

Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex - Wikipedia

Goldstone Space Communications Complex

See green comet Nishimura's tail get whipped away by powerful solar storm as it slingshots around the sun

observed a Coronal Mass Ejection rip the tail off of a comet

C/2023 P1 (Nishimura) - Wikipedia

Nishimura C/2023P1

History of Solar System Exploration 1.6.40

visual, interactive solar system exploration history guide

Akatsuki (spacecraft) - Wikipedia

Akatsuki