Tag: Solar System
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Could A Super Solar Flare Take Out The Earth?
Superflare of 2012 With over 4.5 million views, this NASA video of an absolutely massive 2012 solar flare – having a coronal mass ejection of over 900 miles per hour is simply amazing. Oh, and think about that 900 miles per hour mass ejection from the sun figure … that’s over 1,320 feet traveled every…
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New Inner Oort Cloud Object Discovered
Oort Cloud Studies Are Just Beginning This week, astronomers at Washington D.C.’s Carnegie Institution for Science announced the discovery of what is so far the most distant object in the solar system. The dwarf planet, currently named V774104 orbits the sun at a distance which is three times farther out than Pluto. The exact…
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NASA Future Planetary Missions
NASA Announces Five Investigations For Future Missions Just about when things seemed to get quiet on the space exploration front, NASA announced five new studies that could result in one or perhaps two new missions for planetary studies. If all goes well, these could even happen as early as 2020. DAVINCI would look at…
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(Video) New Horizons Visits The Last Of Our Solar System Planets
July 15 2015 NASA/John Hopkins Media Briefing Is Simply Riveting! NASA/John Hopkins press conference videos are all on one page, so rather than the direct link I usually provide for other videos like YouTube, this will be a two step process … but well worth the extra click. Press conferences from as far back as…
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(Video) New Horizons – Very Close To Pluto Now!
Excitement Is Building! New Horizons passed by Mars’ orbital path in April of 2006, did a Jupiter fly by in Feb 2007 and crossed Saturn’s orbital path in June of 2008. At over 51,000 miles per hour, it had already traveled 1 billion miles to get that far, but wasn’t even half way yet, even…
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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) 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…