Ruée vers l’or à 20 000 lieues sous les mers En 2019, la première mine sous-marine au monde sera mise en exploitation en Océanie. Pour y parvenir, la firme canadienne Nautilus Minerals a dû imaginer des extracteurs hors normes. A la clé, des minerais riches en or, en argent ou en zinc, en proportion dix fois supérieurs à ceux extraits à terre. Une nouvelle chasse aux trésors débute, vitale pour le développement économique. Jamais les «travailleurs de la mer», magnifiés par Victor Hugo, n’auront relevé un défi aussi exceptionnel. Pour creuser à de telles profondeurs, il a fallu imaginer de véritables monstres sous-marins. D’autres projets similaires sont à l’étude. Lire aussi.La Rinconada : la misère au prix de l'or L'infanterie de la mer L'Auxiliary Cuttersera le premier à entrer en action, pour préparer l'extraction. Le Bulk Cuttercreusera la roche en profondeur pour atteindre celle qui contient les minerais précieux. La Collecting Machineaspirera les roches extraites. Le navire-usine 200 personnes à son bord.
Apollo's Moon Shot AR on the App Store Celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Moon Landing with an immersive AR app that places you right in the action of NASA’s daring space missions of the 1960s. The perfect companion to Smithsonian Channel’s landmark six-part series, the “Apollo’s Moon Shot AR” app gives you an out-of-this-world close-up of some of the landmark events that defined the start of the Space Age. Download for free now and blast off into space with us! App Features: Place yourself in the middle of the moon mission: Launch your own Saturn V rocket, sit inside the Lunar Command Module of Apollo 11, and step through a portal to explore the lunar landscape with several exciting AR features. Take a selfie on the Moon, suited up in the authentic Apollo 11 spacesuit, and share with friends on social. Play two thrilling AR simulation games, the “Moon Shot Challenge” and the "Lunar Landing Challenge," to test your ability at navigating a course to the moon and dodging craters and boulders to make a smooth lunar landing.
Mission Overview Studying Mars' Habitability, Seeking Signs of Past Microbial Life, Collecting and Caching Samples, and Preparing for Future Human Missions The Perseverance rover has four science objectives that support the Mars Exploration Program's science goals: All address key astrobiology questions related to the potential of Mars as a place for life. The first three consider the possibility of past microbial life. Even if Perseverance does not discover any signs of past life, it paves the way for human life on Mars someday. Mars 2020 Technology: Heritage and Innovation Technologies for Entry, Descent, and Landing The mission uses technological innovations already demonstrated successfully, especially for entry, descent, and landing (EDL). This type of landing system provides the ability to land a very large, heavy rover on the surface of Mars in a more precise landing area than was possible before Curiosity's landing. Technologies for Surface Operations
Le Monde- Février 2020 - L’ espace sous la menace des mégaconstellations de satellites 24 mai 2019, mission Starlink-0 : soixante satellites mis en orbite simultanément. 11 novembre 2019, Starlink-1 : soixante satellites de plus. 7 janvier 2020, Starlink-2 : soixante satellites de plus. 29 janvier, Starlink-3 : soixante satellites de plus. 17 février, Starlink-4 : soixante satellites de plus. Entre-temps, l’opérateur OneWeb est lui aussi entré dans la danse spatiale en lançant sa première fournée de trente-quatre satellites, le 6 février. En mars, Starlink et OneWeb prévoient tous les deux un nouveau lancement. Et ainsi de suite. Il faut s’obliger à lire cette liste monotone de décollages de fusées pour comprendre que le spatial vient, presque subrepticement, d’entrer dans une nouvelle ère, celle des mégaconstellations de satellites, destinées à fournir, depuis l’orbite basse (moins de 2 000 kilomètres d’altitude), du débit Internet à tous les Terriens, partout, tout le temps. Un chiffre qui angoisse aussi.
The Lunar Library: Genesis — Arch Mission Foundation - Preserving humanity fo... The Arch Lunar Library™ represents the first in a series of lunar archives from the Arch Mission Foundation, designed to preserve the records of our civilization for up to billions of years. It is installed in the SpaceIL “Beresheet” lunar lander, which crashed on the Moon in April of 2019. The Lunar Library contains a 30 million page archive of human history and civilization, covering all subjects, cultures, nations, languages, genres, and time periods. The Library is housed within a 100 gram nanotechnology device that resembles a 120mm DVD. However it is actually composed of 25 nickel discs, each only 40 microns thick, that were made for the Arch Mission Foundation by NanoArchival. The first four layers contain more than 60,000 analog images of pages of books, photographs, illustrations, and documents - etched as 150 to 200 dpi, at increasing levels of magnification, by optical nanolithography. The first analog layer is the Front Cover and is visible to the naked eye.
INTRODUCTION- MERS ET OCÉANS - GENIALLY Thème:De nouveaux espaces de conquête Problématique générale du thème:Comment la puissance s’affirme-t-elle dans les nouveaux espaces de conquête ? Introduction: Océan et espace, quelles spécificités? Une connaissance et une maîtrise en constante évolution.Les dernières frontières ? En quoi les océans et l’espace sont-ils les nouveaux espace de conquête? La localisation du projet de forage sous-marin Solwara 1 I- Des espaces dont la connaissance et la maîtrise progressent constamment A- L’océan, une maîtrise progressive L’exploitation des grands fonds marins Première cartographie des fonds marins réalisée en 1977 par Bruce C. Les espaces des ZEE et de la haute mer B- L’espace, une maîtrise récente ISS 400 km C- Des espaces qui présentent des points communs II_ Espace et océans de nouvelles frontières très convoitées A- Des territoires convoités 1°/ Les océans sont convoités pour de nombreuses raisons Nodules de manganèse dans les fonds marins Les divers types de minerais sous-marins 1°/ Des tensions
India Is Headed to the Moon India has successfully launched its second lunar mission, Chandrayaan-2. The country hopes that the launch will make bring it into the exclusive club of nations that have successfully made a soft landing on lunar soil. Riding on an Indian-built rocket known as a Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle, or GSLV MkIII-M1, the successful launch from the Second Launch Pad at the Satish Dhawan Space Center, located on a small island off India's southeastern coast, took place at 2:43 pm Indian Standard Time (IST). "Today is a historical day for Space Science and Technology in India. I am extremely happy to announce that GSLV MkIII-M1 successfully injected Chandrayaan-2 into an orbit of 6000 Km more than the intended orbit and is better," said Dr. Kailasavadivoo Sivan, head of the India Space Research Organization (ISRO), in a press statement. The launch wasn't entirely smooth. What is Chandrayaan-2? Until today, the mission has been delayed several times. What Is ISRO? Source: BBC
NASA's Juno spacecraft enters Jupiter's orbit | NASA News Fast Facts The $1.1bn mission will last 20 months Juno has travelled 2.7bn km since its launch in 2011 It's an unmanned solar-powered observatory A key concern are high radiation levels NASA's Juno spacecraft has begun to orbit Jupiter to investigate the origin of the solar system, the US space agency has said. The $1.1bn mission launched five years ago successfully entered the orbit of Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, after a 35-minute manoeuvre, NASA said on Tuesday. "Success! The unmanned solar-powered observatory has travelled 2.7bn kilometres since it was launched five years ago from Cape Canaveral in Florida. Once in position to begin its 20-month science mission, Juno will fly in egg-shaped orbits, each one lasting 14 days, to peer through the planet's thick clouds, map its gargantuan magnetic field and probe through the crushing atmosphere for evidence of a dense inner core. 'Into the scariest place' SOURCE: Al Jazeera and agencies
China's Chang'e 4 makes historic first landing on the moon's far side By Leah Crane For the first time, a spacecraft has landed on the side of the moon that is always facing away from Earth – an area that, until now, we had only seen from orbit. The China National Space Administration’s Chang’e 4 lander launched on 7 December and has spent the past month reaching the correct orbit to attempt the historic landing. The CNSA also launched a lunar satellite in May to facilitate communication with the lander, as there is never a direct line of sight between the moon’s far side and Earth. That lack of visibility meant that Chang’e 4 had to make its landing almost completely autonomously, with no input from mission control. This basin is particularly important because it is thought to be a crater from a huge impact during the moon’s early years. The mission will also help prepare for the moon’s possible future. Chang’e 4 is also carrying a “biosphere” with potato seeds, cress and silkworm larvae to see if they can thrive in a sealed container on the moon.
New Horizons Spacecraft Wakes Up to Prepare for Historic Flyby of Distant Object NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has woken up from hibernation to prepare for a historic New Year's Day flyby at the edge of our solar system. The New Horizons probe, which flew by Pluto in July 2015, has been in hibernation mode since Dec. 21 to preserve resources. But, on June 5, the mission operations team at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory received confirmation, through NASA's Deep Space Network, that the spacecraft had exited hibernation, as it was programmed to do. The spacecraft will now begin preparations for a New Year's flyby encounter with the farthest planetary encounter in history. The spacecraft is currently traveling more than 3.7 billion miles (6 billion kilometers) from Earth through the icy band of debris surrounding the solar system beyond Neptune called the Kuiper Belt, and it will spend the upcoming months preparing for its encounter with a small Kuiper Belt object, nicknamed Ultima Thule.
Watch the Final Moments of the ESA's Rosetta Spacecraft as It Crashes Into a Comet In Brief After more than 10 years in space, the ESA's "comet chaser" has ended its mission. Rosetta's missions have been credited with revitalizing public interest in comets. The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Rosetta spacecraft finished its final mission on her comet, the 67P, today at 5 AM Eastern Time. The craft’s mission kicked off in March 2004, and since then, Rosetta has traversed the solar system, circling the sun four times and providing invaluable information to its team back on Earth. “Rosetta has entered the history books once again,” says Johann-Dietrich Wörner, ESA’s Director General, in a press release. The much-accomplished satellite contributed a great deal to space exploration, particularly to the study of comets. For additional insight, the ESA has released a video that shows Rosetta’s final trajectory.