Category: Space Exploration
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Curiosity Analyzes Mars with Its ChemCam Laser
Mars is one of Earth’s closest neighbors. The release of “The Martian” in 2015 revived human curiosity about the Red Planet. How much is it like Earth? Did the canals once carry water? Earth’s populace stares up at the night sky and wonders if lifeforms ever inhabited the planet. Could humanity survive if it…
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Smallest Movement Ever Measured in Space
Smallest Movement Ever Measured in Space While studying gravity with LISA (the Laster Interferometer Space Antenna), scientists were surprised to find that they discovered something they never imagined possible. The team found they could measure movement that was smaller than the width of an atom. While the size of the movement alone is noteworthy,…
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Lost in Space??
Space Ring of Love Charlie Duke’s voice was one many Americans heard with a southern drawl during the Apollo 11 moon landing. While he spent his time on the Earth for this mission, he would end up in space on the Apollo 16 moon landing. In 1972, the mission took him and module pilot to…
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Orion-Mission to Mars
As NASA readies its first crew to Mars, each process is being looked over with a critical eye. There can be no mistakes made. The current status is that NASA is on schedule and budget for its next step in the journey to Mars. One of the primary goals that NASA had set up…
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What is the Limit of Space Travel?
The idea of space travel to the farthest reaches of the galaxy has helped science fiction fans to live in amazement and wonder for all the possibilities out there. After going through the numbers and probability, dark energy, and the nature of nothing that excitement and thrill of all the possibilities might not actually…
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NASA Invests in Suspended Animation
NASA is continuing their research to have people on Mars by 2030. One of the ways they are doing this is with $500,000 rewards for futuristic ideas that are laid out and possible. The space juggernaut wants to make space exploration more effective. One concept that is being worked on is human hibernation. It…
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Light Flash Spotted at Colliding Black Holes
There’s been a longstanding question about what happens when black holes collide. Scientists have debated this and many assumed there wouldn’t be much that occurred. That was until NASA’s Fermi Gamma ray telescope witnessed something completely different. There was a high level of energy light that formed a second after a pair of black holes…
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Hawking and the Nano Spacecraft
Steven Hawking, a world-renowned Cosmologist, is joining up with a group of philanthropists and scientists. The reason for this power team is that this group believes that they may be able to reach a distant star system much faster with their dream of nano-spacecraft. They’re hoping to see their dream a reality within a single…
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Mouse Embryo’s In Space
An experiment carried out on board China’s SJ-10, has succeeded in its goal of reproduction in space. They are now the first group of scientist to successfully develop two-cell mouse embryo’s, in space. Just 80 hours after launch, the recoverable satellite, SJ-10 managed to overcome a major biological hurdle in reproduction in space. The SJ-10 was China’s first micro-gravity…
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Satellite Finds Fungi – Climate Research
A team of NASA scientists has developed a way to locate underground fungus from space. The information gathered from finding the fungus will help scientists predict how forests are altered due to climate change. Hidden under the soil of each and every forest lies a network of fungus that lives in mutual harmony with their…