<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><header style="margin: 30px 1.5em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; overflow: visible;" class=""><h1 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 34px; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><font color="#333333" face="Gill Sans" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 20px; font-weight: normal;" class="">Hi all,</span></font></h1><div class=""><font color="#333333" face="Gill Sans" class=""><span style="font-size: 20px;" class="">I actually started this over three weeks ago after returning from Sri Lanka and India….I am now 12 days into my visit to Brazil with 7 more days here, home for 12 days then to Norway to return 2 days before Christmas…so much for completing the update…tomorrow evening I am on my way back to the US…I really will try to get this mailed tonight…remember to go to the subject links for the latest info</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 20px;" class="">…</span></font></div><div class=""><font color="#333333" face="Gill Sans" class=""><span style="font-size: 20px;" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: rgb(5, 5, 5); white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 20px;" class=""><font face="Gill Sans" class="">We have to stay positive and always be thankful… remembering to do our best, enjoy everything we do, believe in ourselves, and let those we care about most know (I always say this, we all need to take it to heart) …hugs… STAY SAFE, TAKE CARE, Love ya, Gabe</font></span></div><div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: rgb(5, 5, 5); white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 20px;" class=""><font face="Gill Sans" class=""><br class=""></font></span></div><div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: rgb(5, 5, 5); white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 20px;" class=""><font face="Gill Sans" class="">SEE THE ISS:</font></span></div><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 20px; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><font color="#050505" face="Gill Sans" class=""><a href="https://spotthestation.nasa.gov/sightings/index.cfm" class="">https://spotthestation.nasa.gov/sightings/index.cfm</a> </font></span></div><div class=""><font color="#333333" face="Gill Sans" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 20px;" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div class=""><font color="#333333" face="Gill Sans" class=""><span style="font-size: 20px;" class="">The most spectacular event is the successful launch or Artemis1…the long awaited mission is on its way to the moon and to deep space…I really wanted to see this but I was committed to Brazil and spending time with the kids…this is most important…I did watch live stream in Brazil…of course it was nothing like being there at KSC but still impressive</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 20px;" class="">…</span></font></div><div class=""><font color="#333333" face="Gill Sans" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 20px;" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div class=""><div style="caret-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-size: 15px; padding-bottom: 5px;" class=""></div><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" align="left" style="caret-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-size: 15px; padding-top: 6px; padding-bottom: 3px; margin-right: 15px;" class=""><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td width="570" style="padding-top: 4px; padding-right: 15px !important;" class=""><div style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); line-height: normal;" class=""><div class="title-bar" style="font-size: 14px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 2em 0px; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Titillium Web", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><div class="title-wrap" style="box-sizing: border-box; width: 739.953125px; padding: 0px;"><h1 class="title" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 2.2em; margin: 0px; font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.1;">Liftoff! NASA’s Artemis I Mega Rocket Launches Orion to Moon</h1></div></div><section id="ember37" class="opened collapsible ember-view" style="box-sizing: border-box; max-height: none; overflow-y: hidden; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><div class="text" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><div class="type-image dnd-atom-wrapper context-full_width" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: table; clear: both; margin: 0px auto 2em;"><div class="dnd-drop-wrapper" style="font-size: 14px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/nhq202211160203.jpg" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(49, 122, 185);" class=""><img typeof="foaf:Image" alt="NASA’s Space Launch System rocket carrying the Orion spacecraft launches on the Artemis I flight test, Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022, from Launch Complex 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida." title="" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; vertical-align: middle; max-width: 100%; margin-bottom: 10px;" apple-inline="yes" id="F7729BE4-0B0F-422B-A90A-54AAED23F298" src="cid:22CE24F4-E280-4F59-B635-1D834DC02BD9" class=""></a></div><div class="dnd-legend-wrapper" style="box-sizing: border-box; caption-side: bottom;"><div class="caption" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font face="Gill Sans" class="">NASA’s Space Launch System rocket carrying the Orion spacecraft launches on the Artemis I flight test, Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022, from Launch Complex 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA’s Artemis I mission is the first integrated flight test of the agency’s deep space exploration systems: the Orion spacecraft, Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, and ground systems. SLS and Orion launched at 1:47am ET from Launch Pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center.</font></div><div class="credits" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><font face="Gill Sans" class="">Credits: NASA/Bill Ingalls</font></div><div class="link" style="font-size: 11px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: inherit; background-size: inherit; background-attachment: inherit; background-origin: inherit; background-clip: inherit; background-color: inherit; padding: 0px; background-position: inherit; background-repeat: inherit;"></div></div></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em;" class=""><font face="Gill Sans" size="4" class="">Following a successful launch of NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS), the most powerful rocket in the world, the agency’s Orion spacecraft is on its way to the Moon as part of the Artemis program. Carrying an uncrewed Orion, SLS lifted off for its flight test debut at 1:47 a.m. EST Wednesday from Launch Pad 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. </font></p><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em;" class=""><font face="Gill Sans" size="4" class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></font></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em;" class=""><font face="Gill Sans" size="4" class="">The launch is the first leg of a mission in which Orion is planned to travel approximately 40,000 miles beyond the Moon and return to Earth over the course of 25.5 days. Known as <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/specials/artemis-i/" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(49, 122, 185);" class="">Artemis I</a>, the mission is a critical part of NASA’s Moon to Mars exploration approach, in which the agency explores for the benefit of humanity. It’s an important test for the agency before flying astronauts on the <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-s-first-flight-with-crew-important-step-on-long-term-return-to-the-moon-missions-to/" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(49, 122, 185);" class="">Artemis II</a> mission. </font></p><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em;" class=""><font face="Gill Sans" size="4" class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></font></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em;" class=""><font face="Gill Sans" size="4" class="">“What an incredible sight to see NASA’s Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft launch together for the first time. This uncrewed flight test will push Orion to the limits in the rigors of deep space, helping us prepare for human exploration on the Moon and, ultimately, Mars,” said NASA Administrator Bill Nelson. </font></p><div style="font-size: 1em; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em;" class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div class="type-image dnd-atom-wrapper context-side_image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: table; margin: 0.5em 0em 3em 2em; max-width: 320px; float: right; clear: right; width: 320px;"><div class="dnd-drop-wrapper" style="font-size: 14px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/52503690288_9bb22ec573_o.jpeg" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(49, 122, 185);" class=""><img typeof="foaf:Image" alt="NASA’s Space Launch System rocket carrying the Orion spacecraft launches on the Artemis I flight test, Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022, from Launch Complex 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. " title="" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; vertical-align: middle; max-width: 100%; margin-bottom: 10px;" apple-inline="yes" id="BA440E93-DDB5-4AD3-B9CB-63810F5A193A" src="cid:7BE28F64-FEEA-4E77-9BDF-7691A8072F8B" class=""></a></div><div class="dnd-legend-wrapper" style="box-sizing: border-box; caption-side: bottom;"><div class="caption" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font face="Gill Sans" class="">NASA’s Space Launch System rocket carrying the Orion spacecraft launches on the Artemis I flight test, Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022, from Launch Complex 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA’s Artemis I mission is the first integrated flight test of the agency’s deep space exploration systems: the Orion spacecraft, Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, and ground systems. SLS and Orion launched at 1:47 a.m. EST, from Launch Pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center.</font></div><div class="credits" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><font face="Gill Sans" class="">Credits: NASA/Joel Kowsky</font></div><div class="link" style="font-size: 11px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: inherit; background-size: inherit; background-attachment: inherit; background-origin: inherit; background-clip: inherit; background-color: inherit; padding: 0px; background-position: inherit; background-repeat: inherit;"></div></div></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em;" class=""><font face="Gill Sans" size="4" class="">After reaching its initial orbit, Orion deployed its solar arrays and engineers began performing checkouts of the spacecraft’s systems. About 1.5 hours into flight, the rocket’s upper stage engine successfully fired for approximately 18 minutes to give Orion the big push needed to send it out of Earth orbit and toward the Moon. </font></p><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em;" class=""><font face="Gill Sans" size="4" class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></font></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em;" class=""><font face="Gill Sans" size="4" class="">Orion has separated from its upper stage and is on its outbound coast to the Moon powered by its service module, which is the propulsive powerhouse provided by ESA (European Space Agency) through an international collaboration. </font></p><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em;" class=""><font face="Gill Sans" size="4" class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></font></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em;" class=""><font face="Gill Sans" size="4" class="">“It’s taken a lot to get here, but Orion is now on its way to the Moon,” said Jim Free, NASA deputy associate administrator for the Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate. “This successful launch means NASA and our partners are on a path to explore farther in space than ever before for the benefit of humanity.”</font></p><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em;" class=""><font face="Gill Sans" size="4" class="">Over the next several hours, a series of 10 small science investigations and technology demonstrations, called <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/launching-science-and-technology.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(49, 122, 185);" class="">CubeSats</a>, will deploy from a ring that connected the upper stage to the spacecraft. Each CubeSat has its own mission that has the potential to fill gaps in our knowledge of the solar system or demonstrate technologies that may benefit the design of future missions to explore the Moon and beyond. </font></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em;" class=""><font face="Gill Sans" size="4" class="">Orion’s service module will also perform the first of a series of burns to keep Orion on course toward the Moon approximately eight hours after launch. In the coming days, mission controllers at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston will conduct <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/feature/additional-artemis-i-test-objectives-to-provide-added-confidence-in-capabilities-0" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(49, 122, 185);" class="">additional checkouts</a> and course corrections as needed. Orion is expected to fly by the Moon on Nov. 21, performing a close approach of the lunar surface on its way to a <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/feature/orion-will-go-the-distance-in-retrograde-orbit-during-artemis-i/" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(49, 122, 185);" class="">distant retrograde orbit</a>, a highly stable orbit thousands of miles beyond the Moon. </font></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em;" class=""><font face="Gill Sans" size="4" class="">“The Space Launch System rocket delivered the power and performance to send Orion on its way to the Moon,” said Mike Sarafin, Artemis I mission manager. “With the accomplishment of the first major milestone of the mission, Orion will now embark on the next phase to test its systems and prepare for future missions with astronauts.” </font></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em;" class=""><font face="Gill Sans" size="4" class="">The SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft arrived at Kennedy’s Launch Pad 39B on Nov. 4 where they rode out Hurricane Nicole. Following the storm, teams conducted thorough assessments of the rocket, spacecraft, and associated ground systems and confirmed there were no significant impacts from the severe weather.</font></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em;" class=""><font face="Gill Sans" size="4" class="">Engineers previously rolled the rocket back to the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) Sept. 26 ahead of Hurricane Ian and after waving off two previous launch attempts Aug. 29 due to a <a href="https://blogs.nasa.gov/artemis/2022/08/30/nasa-targets-sept-3-for-next-artemis-i-moon-mission-launch-attempt/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(49, 122, 185);" class="">faulty temperature sensor</a>, and Sept. 4 due to a <a href="https://blogs.nasa.gov/artemis/2022/09/03/nasa-to-stand-down-on-artemis-i-launch-attempts-in-early-september-reviewing-options/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(49, 122, 185);" class="">liquid hydrogen leak</a> at an interface between the rocket and mobile launcher. Prior to rolling back to the VAB, teams successfully repaired the leak and demonstrated updated tanking procedures. While in the VAB, teams performed standard maintenance to repair minor damage to the foam and cork on the thermal protection system and recharge or replace batteries throughout the system. </font></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em;" class=""><font face="Gill Sans" size="4" class="">Artemis I is supported by thousands of people around the world, from contractors who built Orion and SLS, and the ground infrastructure needed to launch them, to international and university partners, to small businesses supplying subsystems and components. </font></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em;" class=""><font face="Gill Sans" size="4" class="">Through <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/specials/artemis/" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(49, 122, 185);" class="">Artemis</a> missions, NASA will land the first woman and the first person of color on the surface of the Moon, paving the way for a long-term lunar presence and serving as a steppingstone for astronauts on the way to Mars. </font></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em;" class=""><font face="Gill Sans" size="4" class="">View more photos of Artemis I at: <span style="box-sizing: border-box;" class=""><font color="#317ab9" class=""><span style="box-sizing: border-box;" class=""><a href="https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjzG1pG" class="">https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjzG1pG</a></span></font></span></font></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em;" class=""><font face="Gill Sans" size="4" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em;" class=""><font face="Gill Sans" size="4" class=""><br 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0px; left: 0px; height: 338.671875px; object-fit: contain;"></picture></div></div></div><figcaption itemprop="caption description" style="margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><font color="#0433ff" face="Gill Sans" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><span class="caption-text" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">Uranus is tipped on its side and scientists aren't sure why.</span> <span class="credit" itemprop="copyrightHolder" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">(Image credit: X-ray: NASA/CXO/University College London/W. 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Keck Observatory)</span></span></font></figcaption></div><div class="left-rail-area" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 16px; font-family: inherit; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; visibility: hidden; position: fixed; top: 0px; left: 0px; z-index: 100000; overflow: auto; width: 135px; height: 200vh;"></div><div id="article-body" class="bodyCopy auto text-copy" style="margin: 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both; position: relative; word-break: break-word;"><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-family: inherit; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">Uranus is just plain weird, and one of the weirdest things about it is its tilt. </p><div id="ad-unit-1" class="ad-unit" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-family: inherit; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><font color="#000000" class=""><a href="https://www.space.com/45-uranus-seventh-planet-in-earths-solar-system-was-first-discovered-planet.html" data-component-tracked="1" class="hawk-link-parsed" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;"><u style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">Uranus</u></a> has the largest tilt in the solar system, at 98 degrees, which means it spins almost perfectly perpendicular to the direction of its orbit. Astronomers have long suspected that a series of giant impacts early in the planet's formation did the job of flipping Uranus on its side, but new research suggests a much less violent cause: a satellite of Uranus that wandered away. </font></p><font face="inherit" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-family: inherit;" class=""><span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; --black: #1b1b1b; --white: #fff; --light-mid-grey: #ccc; --trd-blue: #2f6e91; --site-color: #5aaf0b; --site-color-hover: #005f00; --promotion-primary-color: var(--white); --promotion-secondary-color: var(--light-mid-grey); --yellow: #ffd800; --green: #3c8d0d; --orange: #ff6f28; --red: red; --pink: #e6248a; --light-blue: #97edfc; --mid-grey: #333; --light-grey: #eaeaea; --grey: #adadad; --dark-grey: #545454; --prime-blue: #00aeef; --prime-green: #eaf7e9; --lighter-mid-grey: #ebebeb; --game-platform-grey: #dbddde; 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--terms-conditions-orange: #f19670; --voucher-promo: #c0464a;"></aside></span></font><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">All the planets of the <a href="https://www.space.com/16080-solar-system-planets.html" data-component-tracked="1" class="hawk-link-parsed" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;"><u style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">solar system</u></a> have orbital tilts less than 30 degrees — except Uranus. The whole Uranus system is flipped onto its side, affecting not just the planet's rotation but also its rings and moons, too, which orbit around the planet perpendicular to the planet's motion around the <a href="https://www.space.com/58-the-sun-formation-facts-and-characteristics.html" data-component-tracked="1" class="hawk-link-parsed" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;"><u style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">sun</u></a>.</p><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-family: inherit;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""> </span><a href="https://www.space.com/13017-photos-uranus-tilted-planet-rings-moons.html" data-component-tracked="1" class="hawk-link-parsed" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Photos of Uranus, the tilted giant planet</a></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-family: inherit;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-family: inherit;" class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="title-bar" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-family: "Titillium Web", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 2em 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><div class="title-wrap" style="box-sizing: border-box; width: 619.953125px; padding: 0px;"><h1 class="title" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 2.2em; margin: 0px; font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.1;">NASA’s InSight Waits Out Dust Storm</h1></div></div><section id="ember24" class="opened collapsible ember-view" style="box-sizing: border-box; max-height: none; overflow-y: hidden;"><div class="text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="type-image dnd-atom-wrapper context-full_width" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; display: table; clear: both; margin: 0px auto 2em;"><div class="dnd-drop-wrapper" style="font-size: 14px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/pia25287-1041.jpg" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(49, 122, 185);" class=""><img typeof="foaf:Image" alt="NASA’s InSight Mars lander" title="" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; vertical-align: middle; max-width: 100%; margin-bottom: 10px;" apple-inline="yes" id="DA95C742-2907-4E7F-BBD9-4F41B7327A6A" src="cid:12875A02-F757-42D8-A419-ACFB416AC5A6" class=""></a></div><div class="dnd-legend-wrapper" style="box-sizing: border-box; caption-side: bottom;"><div class="caption" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font face="Gill Sans" size="3" class="">NASA’s InSight Mars lander took this final selfie on April 24, 2022, the 1,211th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. The lander’s solar panels have become covered with dust since the lander touched down on Mars in November 2018, which has led to a gradual decline in its power level.</font></div><div class="credits" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><font face="Gill Sans" size="3" class="">Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech</font></div><div class="link" style="font-size: 11px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: inherit; background-size: inherit; background-attachment: inherit; background-origin: inherit; background-clip: inherit; background-color: inherit; padding: 0px; background-position: inherit; background-repeat: inherit;"><a href="" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(49, 122, 185);" class=""></a></div></div></div><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em;" class=""><em style="box-sizing: border-box;" class=""><font face="Gill Sans" size="4" class="">InSight’s team is taking steps to help the solar-powered lander continue operating for as long as possible. </font></em></p><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em;" class=""><font face="Gill Sans" size="4" class=""><span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;" class="">NASA’s InSight mission, which</span><span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;" class=""> </span><a href="https://mars.nasa.gov/news/9191/nasas-insight-still-hunting-marsquakes-as-power-levels-diminish/?site=insight" style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(49, 122, 185);" class="">is expected to end in the near future</a><span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;" class="">, saw a recent drop in power generated by its solar panels as a continent-size dust storm swirls over Mars’ southern hemisphere. First observed on Sept. 21, 2022, by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (</span><a href="https://mars.nasa.gov/mro/" style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(49, 122, 185);" class="">MRO</a><span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;" class="">), the storm is roughly 2,175 miles (3,500 kilometers) from InSight and initially had little impact on the lander. </span><span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;" class="">The mission carefully monitors the lander’s power level, which has been steadily declining as dust accumulates on its solar arrays. By Monday, Oct. 3, the storm had grown large enough and was lofting so much dust that the thickness of the dusty haze in the Martian atmosphere had increased by nearly 40% around InSight. With less sunlight reaching the lander’s panels, its energy fell from 425 watt-hours per Martian day, or sol, to just 275 watt-hours per sol. </span><span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;" class="">InSight’s seismometer has been operating for about 24 hours every other Martian day. But the drop in solar power does not leave enough energy to completely charge the batteries every sol. At the current rate of discharge, the lander would be able to operate only for several weeks. So to conserve energy, the mission will turn off InSight’s seismometer for the next two weeks. </span><span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;" class="">“We were at about the bottom rung of our ladder when it comes to power. Now we’re on the ground floor,” said InSight’s project manager, Chuck Scott of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. “If we can ride this out, we can keep operating into winter – but I’d worry about the next storm that comes along.” </span><span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;" class="">The team had estimated that InSight’s mission would end sometime between late October of this year and January 2023, based on predictions of how much the dust on its solar panels will reduce its power generation. The lander has long-since surpassed its primary mission and is now close to the end of its</span><span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;" class=""> </span><a href="https://mars.nasa.gov/news/8829/nasa-extends-exploration-for-two-planetary-science-missions/?site=insight" style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(49, 122, 185);" class="">extended mission</a><span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;" class="">, conducting “bonus science” by measuring marsquakes, which reveal details about</span><span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;" class=""> </span><a href="https://mars.nasa.gov/news/8996/nasas-insight-reveals-the-deep-interior-of-mars/?site=insight" style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(49, 122, 185);" class="">the deep interior of the Red Planet</a><span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;" class="">.</span></font></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em;" class=""><font face="Gill Sans" size="4" class=""><span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em;" class=""><font face="HelveticaNeue" style="font-size: 31px;" class=""><b class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;" class="">TITAN, Saturn</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">’</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;" class="">s Largest moon...</span></b></font></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em;" class=""><p style="box-sizing: inherit; grid-column-start: text; grid-column-end: text; color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-family: Favorit, times; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; caret-color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-size: 17.92px;" class=""><img jsaction="load:XAeZkd;" jsname="HiaYvf" class="n3VNCb KAlRDb" alt="upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/..." data-noaft="1" style="margin: 0px;" apple-inline="yes" id="B405F638-2B39-49DF-9C93-862EB328885F" src="cid:5EA67765-162B-41C6-A1F8-027D958F31CF"></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; grid-column-start: text; grid-column-end: text; color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-family: Favorit, times; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; caret-color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-size: 17.92px;" class=""><br class=""></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; grid-column-start: text; grid-column-end: text; color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-family: Favorit, times; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; caret-color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-size: 17.92px;" class="">Saturn’s largest moon is an exceptional environment in our Solar System. With its methane-filled lakes, icy volcanoes, and underground caves, it seems worlds apart from our own Earth. But the first geomorphological map of Titan reveals that while its landscape is incredibly impressive and diverse, these factors actually make it strangely similar to Earth.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; grid-column-start: text; grid-column-end: text; color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-family: Favorit, times; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; caret-color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-size: 17.92px;" class="">Other than Earth, Titan is the only other body in the Solar System that is known to have stable liquid on its surface. But unlike Earth, Titan’s lakes, rivers, and seas are made up of the liquid methane and ethane that rain down from its clouds. Titan is also the only moon with a substantial atmosphere and dense-enough air to allow a person to walk through its rough landscape without a spacesuit to weigh them down (although what with the methane rain and lakes, you would have some other hazards to contend with…).</p></div></div></section></div></div></section></div></div></div></div></body></html>