Day in Review: Voyager 1 Revives Backup Thrusters Before Command Pause | Hidden Secrets About Interiors of Moon, Vesta | First Visible-light Auroras at Mars

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The mission team wanted to fix the thrusters, deemed unusable decades ago, before the radio antenna that sends commands to the ... 

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	May 14, 2025 Solar System NASA’s Voyager 1 Revives Backup Thrusters Before Command Pause The mission team wanted to fix the thrusters, deemed unusable decades ago, before the radio antenna that sends commands to the probe went offline for upgrades. Full Story

Solar System NASA Studies Reveal Hidden Secrets About Interiors of Moon, Vesta Analyzing gravity data collected by spacecraft orbiting other worlds reveals groundbreaking insights about planetary structures without having to land on the surface. Read More

Mars NASA Observes First Visible-light Auroras at Mars NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover made history by detecting them for the first time from the surface of another planet, and MAVEN confirmed the detection. Read More

Solar System NASA’s Magellan Mission Reveals Possible Tectonic Activity on Venus Using archival data from the mission, launched in 1989, researchers have uncovered new evidence that tectonic activity may be deforming the planet’s surface. Read More