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(Video) Alien Ocean: NASA’s Mission to Europa
Excitement Grows As The Europa Mission Gains Momentum Liquid water is key to life and because of that, Europa may be the most likely place to find life in our solar system. There is just too much evidence we can see on the surface to ignore that possibility. What is even more exciting is that…
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(Video) Spectacular NEW Mars images May 2015
New Mars Images So far, most of my posts have been fairly long documentaries about various aspects of our solar system. But once in a while, truely amazing things can happen that do not take much time to show their importance. That is the case with this video series. Only 9+ minutes long, but these…
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(Video) The Year of Pluto – New Horizons Documentary Brings Humanity Closer to the Edge of the Solar System
New Horizons – Pluto and Beyond So, if you can’t see Pluto well enough from Earth telescopes, what do you do? NASA said … send a probe to see. And that’s what New Horizons is all about. This documentary is a fascinating history of how Pluto was discovered, its moons, evidence that it was actually…
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(Video) 2015 National Geographic Documentary – The Latest Secrets of the Solar System
Intriguing Ideas About How Our Solar System Came To Be Four big mysteries are discussed … why Mars isn’t about the same size as Venus and Earth, how the outer planets formed, what is the composition of the asteroid belts and why the moon was bombarded so heavily that it left the surface permanently cratered.…
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(Video) Kepler – Combing The Heavens For Another Earth
Can Kepler Find Us A New Earth? Unlike other missions, instead of looking to see what we can see, Kepler is looking for another planet like Earth. The French in an international effort and the USA are both looking, so the race is on! Both have found candidates, including the possibility of water. New tools…
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(Video) Hubble – Invisible Universe Revealed
The Universe As Only Hubble Can Bring Us … It all started with a grand idea, well before the capability to put a telescope in space even existed. That became a project called the Hubble Telescope, but was soon one of the biggest, and embarrasing engineering blunders in our time. Through engineering genius and several…
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(Video) SpaceX Explosion
Bad Day For SpaceX! Even though we remember the Challenger like it was yesterday … I still take space flight for granted. But it simply isn’t easy to break away from Earth’s gravity, which has been part of the commentary that followed the launch attempt. Everything looked great with the SpaceX CRS-7 until 3:20 on…
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(Video) 1976 NASA Educational Documentary – Venus, Mercury and More
Awesome Photos From The NASA Archives. Before the Mariner 10 spacecraft, all we could do was theorize, postulate and basically guess what Mercury and cloud covered Venus looked like. We had photos and data from other scientific instruments, but Mariner 10’s journey not only changed how we viewed Venus and Mercury, but when added to…