Fake Mars ship lands
Mars500 has landed. On 14 February, three crew members from the simulated mission to Mars stepped out of the windowless mock spaceship where they have spent the past eight months, and into a small room with a sandy floor and twinkling lights. After two more “Mars walks”, they will be reunited with the other three crew members and start the eight-month “journey” back to Earth.
Portraits of a comet
Early on 15 February, NASA’s Stardust spacecraft flew past comet Tempel 1, taking 72 pictures of the potato-shaped object. When Â鶹´«Ã½ went to press, the…
