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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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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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 …
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 …
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 …
(Video) 1976 NASA Educational Documentary – Venus, Mercury and MoreRead More »