A Landing Site Chosen for NASA’s New VIPER Lunar Rover

The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast.<br />SpaceTime Series 24 Episode 110<br />*A landing site chosen for NASA’s new VIPER lunar rover<br />NASA has selected the western edge of Nobile Crater at the Moon's South Pole as the landing site for its Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover or VIPER mission slated to launch in 2023.<br />*Was Mars too small to retain water<br />New research suggests a fundamental reason Mars has no water may be that it’s just too small to hold onto large amounts of water.<br />*New binary white dwarf system discovered<br />Astronomers have discovered a double white dwarf system located some 368 light years away.<br />*Taikonauts return home after 90 days on China’s new space station<br />Three Chinese taikonauts have returned safely to Earth after completing the country's longest-ever manned space mission.<br />*The Science Report<br />A new study suggests that if you’ve already had COVID-19, it’s still worth getting the vaccine.<br />A new study shows the parents of kids with autism have less symmetrical faces than average.<br />A quarter of Italian alpine plant species are threatened by glacier retreat.<br />Understanding the health secrets of curcumin.<br />Alex on Tech: Apple has finally released their new IOS-15 operating system.<br />Your support is needed...<br />SpaceTime is an independently produced podcast (we are not funded by any government grants, big organisations or companies), and we’re working towards becoming a completely listener supported show...meaning we can do away with the commercials and sponsors. We figure the time can be much better spent on researching and producing stories for you, rather than having to chase sponsors to help us pay the bills.<br />That's where you come in....help us reach our first 1,000 subscribers...at that level the show becomes financially viable and bills can be paid without us breaking into a sweat every month. Every little bit helps...even if you could contribute just $1 per month. It all adds up.<br />B