We are about to find out! Although everything seems to be about Pluto right now, there are quite a few other very exciting things going on in the universe. This is one of those examples. And it caught me a bit by surprise when NASA announced the Fermi Telescope not only discovered a new Pulsar, …
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What Are Those Dark Spots All About? Time late for a current events type post, but this article discusses some key questions scientists were asking – and I assume hoping to find out once New Horizons took as much data as it could during the July 14, 2015 closest approach fly-by. We are starting to …
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The Pluto Fly By Is Done – So What’s Next? The Pluto fly by today was fabulous, and it will take about 16 months for all the data New Horizons took to actually make it back to Earth for analysis. I had no idea it would take that long, but thinking about that, 3.65 billion …
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 …
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 …
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 »