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 "a sci-fi masterpiece that rivals some of Robert Heinlein’s best work. Lots of fast paced action, violence, and suspense with many plots and twists...a must read for all sci-fi fans." — Amazon Review /Readers' Favorite

 

"OMG - space opera at its best!!" — Carole-Ann, Goodreads Reviewer

 

"Don't let this masterful work pass you by. Willen has done this right!" — Barbara Sullivan, Goodreads Reviewer

 

"A great novel…" — Chris Wright, Author of The Alliance

 

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"very entertaining, often gripping, and well written." — Richard Bunning, Goodreads Reviewer

 

"Finally, something new in a genre of repeats, Wow, rarely does something so fascinating yet truly disturbing come along" – Amazon Review

Pirates (Nastragull Book 1) by Erik Martin Willen

The human cadets on the interstellar transport, Bright Star, are heading home...but things don't go according to plan. After a battle with space pirates, the Bright Star and its survivors are taken prisoner. A cadet, along with the captain of the Bright Star escape. Together they set out on a dangerous adventure to rescue their friends. Read More   Get Deal On Kindle ➔ Get Deal On Apple ➔ Get Deal On Nook ➔ Get Deal On Google ➔

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An epic space adventure that holds danger at every turn 

The human cadets on the interstellar transport, Bright Star, are heading home after eight long years of military training...but things don't go according to plan. After a bloody battle with a group of space pirates, the Bright Star and its survivors are taken prisoner with the intent on selling them into slavery...or worse. 

Cadet Alec Horn, along with the captain of the Bright Star escape, taking an emperor's ransom in loot with them. Together, they set out on a dangerous adventure to rescue their friends and comrades.

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NASA’s MAVEN Continues to Advance Mars Science and Telecommunications Relay Efforts - UNIVERSE

With a suite of new national and international spacecraft primed to explore the Red Planet after their arrival next month, NASA’s MAVEN mission is ready to provide support and continue its study of the Martian atmosphere.

MAVEN launched in November 2013 and entered the Martian atmosphere roughly a year later. Since that time, MAVEN has made fundamental contributions to understanding the history of the Martian atmosphere and climate. A few science highlights include:

• Determination that the bulk of the Martian atmosphere has been lost to space through time, driving changes in the Mars climate and the ability to support life at the surface.

• Characterization of the mechanisms by which gas is stripped away from the atmosphere to space and of the role of solar storms hitting Mars in enhancing the escape rate.

• There is significant unexpected variability in the loss rate of hydrogen to space through the seasons, which has important implications for the history of water.

• Discovery of two new types of aurora at Mars, and characterization of all three types of aurora and of their causal mechanisms.

• First comprehensive measurements of winds in the Martian upper atmosphere, indicating substantial (and unexpected) interaction between different layers in the atmosphere.

• Revealed the unexpected complexity and dynamic nature of the Martian magnetosphere, with its influence on the behavior of the upper atmosphere (including variability in escape and occurrence of aurora).

Now with arrival of the Perseverance rover to the surface of the planet in February, MAVEN will continue to carry out both relay communications support for NASA’s surface missions and joint data analysis with these missions and with the orbiters already at Mars. In addition, MAVEN will be working on collaborative data analysis with the current missions and with the missions about to arrive at Mars.

Last year, in preparation for providing communications relay support, MAVEN reduced the highest altitude in its orbit using an aerobraking maneuver, a process taking advantage of the Martian upper atmosphere to place a small amount of drag on the spacecraft.  MAVEN also adjusted the orientation of its orbit, to better monitor data from Mars 2020 during its entry, descent and landing.

When not conducting relay communications, MAVEN will continue to study the structure and composition of the upper atmosphere of Mars. MAVEN has enough fuel to operate until at least 2030.

MAVEN’s principal investigator is based at the University of Colorado’s Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, which also leads science operations. NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, manages the MAVEN project. Lockheed Martin Space built the spacecraft and is responsible for mission operations. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, provides navigation and Deep Space Network support, as well as the Electra telecommunications relay hardware and operations.

For more information on the MAVEN mission, visit: https://www.nasa.gov/maven or http://lasp.colorado.edu/home/maven/

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Banner image: This illustration shows the MAVEN spacecraft and the limb of Mars.  Credit: NASA/Goddard

Nancy Neal Jones

NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.

Source: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2021/maven-continues-to-advance-mars-science-and-telecommunications-relay-efforts

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Unique Solar System Views from NASA Sun-Studying Missions - UNIVERSE

 

Though they focus on the star at the center of our solar system, three of NASA’s Sun-watching spacecraft have captured unique views of the planets throughout the last several months. Using instruments that look not at the Sun itself, but at the constant outflow of solar material from the Sun, the missions — ESA and NASA’s Solar Orbiter, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe, and NASA’s Solar and Terrestrial Relations Observatory — have sent home images from their distinct vantage points across the inner solar system.

All three missions carry instruments to study the Sun and its influence on space, including cameras that look out the sides of the spacecraft to study the Sun’s outer atmosphere, the solar wind, and the dust in the inner solar system. It’s these instruments that, at various points in 2020, saw several planets pass through their fields of view.

Each of the three missions has a distinct orbit, so their perspectives are different from both ours here on Earth and from each other. This is reflected in each spacecraft’s view of the planets, which show the bodies in different positions than what would have been seen from Earth and from the other spacecraft on those dates

This computer-generated view shows the perspective of the Solar Orbiter spacecraft on Nov. 18, 2020, illustrating why Solar Orbiter’s view shows — from left to right — Venus, Earth, and Mars, with Mercury and the Sun off camera to the right.

Credits: ESA

Solar Orbiter

ESA and NASA’s Solar Orbiter took these images of Venus, Earth, and Mars on Nov. 18, 2020.

Credits: ESA/NASA/NRL/Solar Orbiter/SolOHI

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Looking back towards home from about 155.7 million miles (250.6 million kilometers) away, the Solar Orbiter Heliospheric Imager, or SoloHI, aboard ESA and NASA’s Solar Orbiter spacecraft captured Venus, Earth, and Mars together on Nov. 18, 2020. The Sun is located on the right, outside the image frame. 

Launched in February 2020, Solar Orbiter returned its first images in July 2020, including the closest-ever view of the Sun. SoloHI, one of ten instruments on the spacecraft and the only heliospheric imager, looks off to the side of the Sun to capture the solar wind and dust that fills the space between the planets.

Source & For more information:  https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2021/unique-solar-system-views-from-nasa-sun-studying-missions

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