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Members of Team Tumbleweed in a video call with Gregory Hajos

Interview with retired NASA employee Greg Hajos

Read about Mr. Hajos’ stories from years of working on various projects including at NASA

Climatic Wind Tunnel Test

The AE Vienna team tested the V3 prototype in the RTA Climatic Wind Tunnel.

AMADEE20 Dress Rehearsal

Preparing for the mission in Israel

Construction V3 Prototype

Completion of the prototype by the AE Vienna team

Springboard Career Event

Presenting at a career event in Amsterdam

Members of Team Tumbleweed in a video call with Gregory Hajos

Interview with retired NASA employee Greg Hajos

Climatic Wind Tunnel Test

AMADEE20 Dress Rehearsal

Construction V3 Prototype

Springboard Career Event

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Last weekend, we had the pleasure of attending the

Last weekend, we had the pleasure of attending the Technology Festival at the One Planet Museon-Omniversum in the Hague! With our Mars-Rover-Workshop the visitors got to create their mini-Tumbleweeds against the fascinating backdrop of the museum - stay tuned for some results. Thank you for having us, we hope to be back!

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If you kept an eye on our stories, you may have sp

If you kept an eye on our stories, you may have spotted that this week we had our first Monthly Update Meeting in the new team structure! Each project and department presented their progress over the past month - like Misha talking about new concepts for the Tumbleweed Mars rover's unfolding mechanism. Our Delft-based members could even turn it into an in-person meet-up at the @aetudelft faculty!

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No planets are in sight when a star is born in a c

No planets are in sight when a star is born in a cloud of gas and dust. Instead, the densely packed gas and dust surrounding the star form a protoplanetary disk. As the name gives away, this material will clump into what will become (exo)planets surrounding their host. The streams of material flowing along the star’s magnetic field lines hit the its surface, making it light up.
As the planets form, they create gaps and clumps in the disc. Recently, researchers performing observations with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile have found "little hurricanes that can be triggered by a particular instability at the edges of the gaps carved in protoplanetary discs by planets." Methods studying far-away stellar systems and their planets can help scientists understand more about the formation of our own solar system.

Sources:
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/astronomers-use-little-hurricanes-to-weigh-and-date-planets-around-young-stars
https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/jpl/pia20645/protoplanetary-disk/

Image credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech

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#throwback to when we had a mini-Tumbleweed buildi

#throwback to when we had a mini-Tumbleweed building contest at the Tumblemeet last September and let them go on a test roll across the beach in the Hague. As it turns out, with a short time limit and few materials, even our most experienced Tumbleweed-builders struggle - and a lack of wind left most of them stranded! Which one's your favorite?

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How many walk-in Mars rovers have you seen? For a

How many walk-in Mars rovers have you seen?

For a mentor meeting last summer, we made sure our partners could get up close to our Pink Lady Tumbleweed prototype. However, to make sure it doesn't roll off, the bottom arches - and the sails of course - have been removed.

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We are always looking to make our Instagram as fun

We are always looking to make our Instagram as fun and informative as possible for our followers, be it about Team Tumbleweed or astronomy topics. Therefore, after almost 150 space posts, we are making a change to our feed. While we will still be sharing space content, we will move to a more picture-based approach with information in the caption. We hope our posts have taught you something about our beautiful universe and continue to do so. If you have requests for topics to cover, let us know your suggestions in the comments below!

Image: Dynamic star cluster NGC 346, 200 000 light-years away, taken by the James Webb Space Telescope's Near-Infrared Camera NIRCam

Image credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, O. Jones (UK ATC), G. De Marchi (ESTEC), and M. Meixner (USRA). Image processing: A. Pagan (STScI), N. Habel (USRA), L. Lenkic (USRA) and L. Chu (NASA/Ames)

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