Category: Our Solar System
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Organics On Asteroid Bennu?
Bennu – It all started with a theory A theory, that is, of how our entire solar system was created. From the vast cloud of hydrogen, helium and dust, to the supernova that surely destabilized that cloud and lead to the creation of our Sun. Small grains of dust flash heated into small molten…
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10 Things You Might Not Know About Jupiter
Interesting facts about the gas giant Jupiter With all the discussions going on about Pluto recently, there are still things about Jupiter out there that many folks may not know. That is the subject of the article below. That it is a gas giant along with Saturn, or that it is mostly composed of…
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Jupiter’s Great Read Spot Is Still A Mystery
Two opposing jet streams set up the Jupiter storm The cover photo says it all – what a swirling mystery Jupiter’s Great Red Spot continues to be for scientists. Not that Jupiter itself isn’t a bit strange. It really has no solid ground … composed of mostly liquid Helium at it’s core and varying states…
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GOCE – It’s All About Earth
GOCE – the ultimate way to see what’s “under Earth’s hood” Most of our articles and information are about space exploration, our solar system or fascinating things beyond it. But this is so interesting that we just had to include it. GOCE stands for Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer, or GOEC satellite…
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Pluto Update
Pluto is still giving us surprises With the latest updates from Nasa, we see Pluto actually has an atmosphere, some interesting geological features and a red region on one of its moons that is causing some excitement. Granted, the atmosphere is not one that we could live in, but that it even has one is…
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Europa! Jupiter Moon Mission Gains Support in Congress
Europa – An exciting adventure! We’ve done a few articles on Europa, but getting the funding to actually do the mission is still critical to getting there. This article explains why it is important that we do that, and even more exciting is that it is looking like we might actually be getting close to…
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The Original CBS Moon Landing Coverage
And it all started here … Ok, I will admit I’m old enough to remember all of this. In fact, everyone in my house (and all across the USA for that matter) were riveted to the one and only black and white TV we owned. The moon landing was just mesmerizing. We could not get…
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Mars Rover Finds Unusual Bedrock
NASA’s Curiosity Rover is still amazing … Although spectacular photos were shared with us as late as this May, Mars continues to surprise, and so does the Curiosity Rover. On earth, preservation of organic materials from days way past in quartz (high levels of silica) is common, so when the rover found rocks with high…
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Kepler Found Another Earth? Maybe?
Where in all the heavens could we look for another Earth? For as long as man looked in awe at the night sky, we have wondered what’s out there and how do we fit into all that enormity? Are we alone? As astronomers, physicists, mathematicians and other scientists proposed better theories and developed better tools…
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(Video) Take An 11 Year Trip On Mars With The Mars Rover Opportunity
Amazing longevity for the Mars Rover Opportunity! Pluto is taking most of the news reals right now and there are several other space projects in the works for the near future as well as further out. But what’s happening (or what happened) to the Mars Rover? Well … this video (and associated article) discussed that…