Juice skimmed past Earth on 28 September to get back on the road to Jupiter
The European spacecraft passed 8,640 km above the Indian Ocean to borrow a little of Earth’s speed, with no intention of ever giving it back.
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Quick newsScience ArticleScience On Mars, Perseverance finds traces of three episodes of water at the edge of Jezero crater
A study published on 21 September shows that the rocks of the “Margin Unit”, on the edge of the Martian crater Jezero, were altered by water at least three times, the last time by hot water. Geologists expected shoreline sediments; they found a rock born of magma. Mars has never been one to skimp on surprises.
ArticleScience LRO spacecraft discovers a 222-metre crater on the Moon, formed in 2024
On 16 September NASA announced the discovery of McGetchin, a 222-metre-wide lunar crater gouged out in spring 2024: the largest newly formed crater ever spotted in the Solar System. An impact of this size is expected only about once every 132 years; it still took more than a year for anyone to notice.
