Month: July 2015
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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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New Dark Matter Theory Says We May Know What It Is
Or at least what dark matter is like Ok, I admit it … I had to go to Wiki <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_matter> and read up on dark matter. Since nobody ever found any, I thought it best to start there to see what we at least think it is … if it is. They say it doesn’t…
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Tess – What Planets Will We Find?
Are we alone? Tess will help us answer that. Seems every time I look at Kepler or articles on exoplanets, one common question keeps coming up: Are we alone in the universe? We have Hubble still taking remarkable photos, and with the Spitzer space telescope unexpectedly able to use it’s “infrared vision” to help Hubble…
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First Confirmed Warm Neptune, Comet-like Planet?
Although this is a first confirmed, warm Neptunes may be more common than expected Perhaps I should be embarrassed, but this is also the first I’ve heard of “warm Neptunes”. The article below does a very good job of describing what they are and why they look and act like a comet, but are really…
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$100 Million Reward To Find Alien Life?
Is it just a matter of time before we discover alien life; that we’re really not alone in the universe? Ok, I don’t usually delve into aliens, or alien theories … but when Stephen Hawking asks the question, I listen. Or perhaps better said, when Stephen Hawking sets up a $100 million project to find…
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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…
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Europa – Could Liquid Water Be Present?
If Europa has water, will we find life there? I already included a post on Europa that is more recent than this one, but Space.com does such a good job with videos, I had to add it … if for no other reason than to get you a couple links to their site so you…