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Fifty years after Viking landed on Mars, the most important question it raised remains deliberately unanswered: did the Viking biology experiments detect living organisms in the Martian soil? Not fossils. Not “ancient habitability.” Not ambiguous carbon fragments extracted from crushed rock...

Found some of these shots intriguing, haven't seen many before. A couple look a bit yeah nah and I feel that others could be explained away as space junk or sats. It was the triangle vids that got me. Bally)

Thread for factoids and news items that don't warrant their own thread. Japan successfully launches H3 rocket https://apnews.com/article/japan-jaxa-h3-rocket-launch-9c64f2c59b9212d612902e74823b77b5 Japan’s H3 rocket returned to flight Friday with the debut of a new low-cost variant, a badly...

Now that's what I call a fireball! This thing went hard and fast as soon as they hit the starter button. Took out the launch pad and who knows what else at this point? It's likely this will delay some of the plans for the Artemis missions.