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Extreme sports fanatics would really enjoy this new invention, as it turns a horizontally-standing running treadmill into a vertical one, or even a sideways one. Workouts will never be the same! Don't get to excited though, I don't think you will find this baby in any gyms any time soon. NASA has been devel... |
4 February 2008
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The first solar eclipse of the new year will take place on Thursday 7 February, will be a partial eclipse and unfortunately can only be seen by part of the residents of the southern hemisphere. Scientists predict that the shadow cast by the Moon will appear over the Antarctic continent and travel towards Australia an... |
23 January 2008
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The next generation of rockets that are currently being designed by NASA, to launch vehicles into space during future manned lunar and Martian missions, are looking kind of shaky. Literally! They shake so violently in the launch process that the rocket will probably disintegrate long before getting into the Earth�... |
22 January 2008
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Apollo 5 represented NASA's first unmanned flight that had the purpose of testing the Lunar Module meant for use in the mission to take the first man on the Moon's surface. Built by the Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation, the Lunar Module had the task of successfully landing two men on the surface of ... |
15 January 2008
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Scheduled to launch on October 22nd this year, Chandrayaan-1 will be the first scientific mission to the Moon for the Indian Space Research Organisation's (ISRO). The European Space Agency (ESA) will be providing three scientific instruments, which will be placed onboard the lunar orbiter. Chandra represents the... |
14 January 2008
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The experiment conducted by the Naval Research Laboratory, in collaboration with a few other U.S. governmental institution, was mainly designed in order to make detailed measurements on the surface of the Moon, and the Earth's upper layer of the atmosphere, the ionosphere. The team of scientists successfully sen... |
9 January 2008
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After the press conference that took place in the wake of the launch of the first Chinese lunar probe Chang'e 1 in October last year, during which a Chinese official stated that the Republic of China had no scheduled mission to send a man on the Moon, now the Chinese Space program picks up the speed and plans to... |
8 January 2008
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You know the phrase, it means seldom. Rare. The original meaning of the word was actually "never", but the times change and so do the meanings of words and, in our case, phrases. But the way the astronomical possibility of an event is measured as frequency clearly outdoes my science classes and training.Oh, you don&#... |
3 January 2008
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The word satellite originally meant 'co-traveler' or 'traveling companion', and was first attributed to natural bodies orbiting planets such as the Moon, for example, which is Earth's satellite. Currently, the word satellite is mostly used to describe man-made instruments orbiting the Earth, ... |
3 January 2008
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Launched on September 14 this year, the so-called SELENE lunar orbiter began its extensive Moon exploration program last Friday, after about two months of preliminary tests that ensured that all instruments are functional. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA for short, announced, Wednesday, in a press con... |
28 December 2007
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The collision of the original Earth with another planet dimensioned similarly to Mars, which resulted in the creation of our large Moon, might have taken place later in the stages of solar system formation, new studies show. Because it is the most credible explanation of the Moon's birth - since other models can... |
20 December 2007
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Mars is currently in the closest position to planet Earth as, in the next eight years, it will be making it the brightest object on the night sky, thus outshining even the white dwarf Sirius. This month it can be observed in the constellation Gemini, and it experiences a retrograde motion, from east to west, which... |
14 December 2007
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The Moon is probably the strangest body in the solar system, as it has the largest size relative to that of the planet it orbits. Available theories about how it might have formed involve a possible catastrophic collision between an embrionary planet slightly larger than our own, or the original Earth if you will, an... |
12 December 2007
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Similar to our Moon, which always shows the same face towards Earth, some rocky planets might also present this particularity, meaning that half of their surface is extremely hot while the other half might be ice cold. Studies show that if they have long orbits around their Sun, they could have increased chances of h... |
11 December 2007
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Well, there is evidence of water on Enceladus' surface but the real question is still whether there are any life forms present there or not. While doing a survey of Saturn's tiny moon, the Cassini-Huygens probe detected a hot spot on the old moon's surface, which usually has a temperature lower than th... |
11 December 2007
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Everybody has dreamt of touching the moon at least once in his/her life and for the overwhelming majority the dream has been wiped by the first rays of sunlight that gently entered the room and laid to rest on their faces. Not everybody's a rocket scientist, let's face it, so dwelling on that dream would on... |
7 December 2007
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The bizarre human-like face on the Moon seen from the surface of the Earth, has been created more than four billion years ago, when molten lava solidified into plains. The study revealing this fact, has been carried out by Kentaro Terada of Hiroshima University in Japan and Mahesh Anand of Britain's Open Univers... |
6 December 2007
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Though being shot more than 40 years ago, during the 1960's when no more than five spacecrafts orbited the moon, these images have provided valuable data for the planing of the next manned mission to the moon. In the course of a year, spanning from August 1966 to August 1967, NASA's orbiter has taken an exc... |
4 December 2007
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The planets and the moons in the solar system often get pounded by differently sized objects, creating large cracks and craters on their surface. These energetic impacts are often due to the moon's regular motion and spinning. To better understand the effect that these events have on the motion of a planet or mo... |
26 November 2007
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Physicist Phil Metzger warns about the danger of flying rocks that could have energies high enough to smash concrete poles, and punch holes through chain link fences, during the blast off of the solid rocket engines that lift the space shuttles. The exhaust of the engines can blast concrete pieces from the flame tren... |
24 November 2007
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While all planets in the solar system have asteroids and moons of different sizes orbiting them, Earth seems to make an exception. It has the biggest single moon, relative to the planet's size. There are different theories regarding how it formed, but only one stands out as the most popular. It looks like the M... |
21 November 2007
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In the 1960s, in the middle of the cold war, the United States struggled to keep up with the Soviet Union in a so-called space, that had already surpassed them by being the first nation to successfully put a man in Earth's orbit. As a response, the President of the U.S., John Fitzgerald Kennedy in its famous spe... |
17 November 2007
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Several movies have been made during the years depicting the potential catastrophic consequences of an asteroid or a comet intersecting Earth's orbit, and smashing onto its surface, or potential deflection strategies to avoid such a scenario.There are a lot of NEOs or Near Earth Objects, in the planet's orb... |
13 November 2007
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Saturn is the second planet in size in the Sun System, with a diameter 10 times that of the Earth, but the gas giant is famous for its beautiful ring, whose origin remains an enigma. The ring comprises floating wide, flat discs of ice, varying in size from dust to over 10 ft (3 m) across. Some believe they rooted in ... |
25 October 2007
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New secrets of the giant gas planet have been exposed by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft during its recent flyby on the way towards the dwarf planet Pluto in 2015. New Horizons was sped on by Jupiter's gravity, saving years of its journey to the icy Pluto. This is the closest encounter with Jupiter since the... |
10 October 2007
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The mystery of the space Dalmatian has been solved. The mysterious dark spots on Saturn's moon Iapetus are caused by the Sun. New images delivered by the Cassini spacecraft show the stains are located mainly on the sunward-facing slopes of craters and mountains, pointing to a runaway energy splotching areas of t... |
9 October 2007
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Have you ever imagined a tropical paradise at -274 °F (- 170 °C)? But on Earth…as such thing does exist on the Saturn's largest moon, Titan, the only moon in the Sun System large enough to have an atmosphere. Methane rainfall soaks dunes of ice or tar on Titan's arid deserts, like a frozen mirror image of E... |
3 October 2007
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Google and NASA published some new high resolution photos on the official page of Google Moon as well as several detailed photos especially captured for Google Earth. As PC World reports, the new Moon imagery includes panoramic photos as well as videos and audio files recorded during the Apollo missions. If you didn&... |
24 September 2007
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The Mountain View company Google seems to be focused more and more on earth and space exploration as it continuously improves the mapping technologies with new and innovative functions. Today Google officially rolls out a new version of Moon, a product which is similar with Earth but with a different goal: it provide... |
14 September 2007
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It looks like the super giant Google is addicted to the space exploration and wants to find out as many details as it can get, no matter how. After it already improved the downloadable mapping tool Google Earth with Sky, a function which enables consumers to explore the stars and the galaxies straight from their desk... |
14 September 2007
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Eager beavers, hurry up to catch the last total lunar eclipse for 2007. It will be witnessed on Tuesday Aug. 28 and will be the second for this year after the one on March, 3.The eclipse will start at 8:51 a.m. UT (Universal Time), and the total eclipse will last from 9:52 a.m. UT to 11:22 a.m. UT. By 12:23 p.m. UT,... |
20 August 2007
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We have barely escaped from an Armageddon. Next time we may not be that lucky. That's why some see the moon as our possible escape in case such a scenario happens. NASA is already planning a permanent lunar outpost by 2024. "But that plan should be expanded to include a way to preserve humanity's learning, ... |
15 August 2007
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"Don't blame it on moonlight/Don't blame it on sunshine". Well, sunshine may produce skin cancer, but the full moon will definitely not make you 'accidentally' hit your thumb with a hammer, or break your back while lifting a weight. These are all just urban legends, as proven by Austrian governmen... |
7 August 2007
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NASA and one of its many contractors are planning a future Moon base, an outpost that could be reused by the crews of the next lunar missions to land on the surface in the next decades. This base camp will house astronauts, allowing them to use the moon's natural resources, conduct scientific experiments and ev... |
23 July 2007
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The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has just put its moon mission on indefinite hold due to technical glitch, in what seems to be a never ending streak of bad luck for the country's ambitious plans to get to the Moon.Called the Selenological and Engineering Explorer - or SELENE, the space probe was d... |
23 July 2007
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On July 20, 1969, 38 years and one day ago, Neil Armstrong became the first person to walk on the lunar surface, while in command of the Apollo 11 mission. One of the defining moments of human history, the event is best remembered through Armstrong's words on his first stepping onto the Moon's surface: Tha... |
21 July 2007
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Saturn is a curious planet, not because it's a gas giant, the second largest planet in the solar system, or because of the fact that its equatorial and polar diameters differ by almost 10%. The most interesting aspect of this giant is the number of satellites.People often enjoy gazing at the Moon, our only natu... |
20 July 2007
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Although we are used to the round or oval shape of most celestial bodies, some of them are just defying the cosmic laws and display some really weird characteristics. Saturn's moon, Iapetus, is one of these strange appearances, because it looks like a walnut instead of a sphere.The third-largest moon of Saturn ... |
18 July 2007
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A connection between vampires, werewolves and full moon has not been established yet. Still, British police has found one between full moon and small dirty businesses (like petty thefts) or violent crimes. A new study has found that dogs and cats too are more exposed to injuries and illnesses during full moon than du... |
16 July 2007
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NASA and one of its many contractors are planning a future Moon base, an outpost that could be reused by the crews of the next lunar missions to land on the surface in the next decades. This base camp will house astronauts, allowing them to use the moon's natural resources, conduct scientific experiments and eve... |
9 July 2007
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Robotic applications like those seen in the sci-fi movies will soon become a reality, as future robots could take over some human professions, like low-tech construction workers, medical nurses, doing the chores for people or helping them in extreme environments.The latest development in that direction is the Eurobo... |
7 July 2007
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Hyperion, a satellite of Saturn, is one of the strangest moons in our solar system, whose behavior and composition has puzzled astronomers for many years. This moon really looks like a giant cosmic sponge, but there are many more weird properties that have just recently been explained.A highly irregular body in the ... |
5 July 2007
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The two satellites of the Orbital Express mission, the Autonomous Space Transport Robotic Operations (ASTRO) vehicle and a prototype modular next-generation serviceable satellite (NEXTSat) successfully reunited after they were separated by 7 kilometers.One of the main purposes of the mission is to test the ability o... |
3 July 2007
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The full moon is a natural phenomenon that has inspired many writers and movie producers, as well as ordinary people. You've probably seen at least one bad movie where two lovers kiss under a huge full moon visible on the horizon.Also, there is a strong belief that the full moon is caused by a series of physical... |
30 June 2007
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Investing in space technology now may be similar to buying Microsoft shares two decades ago: highly profitable. It seems the next industry area to experience an economic boom will be the exploration of space and space tourism.That's exactly what a company called Space Adventures, headquartered in Vienna, Virgin... |
29 June 2007
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The new spaceship currently under development at NASA, Ares V, will be able to transport people on the Moon and maybe even on Mars. A scientist is proposing a new type of rocket that, if mounted on Ares V, could dramatically reduce the costs of future manned missions.Steven Howe, director of the Center for Space Nuc... |
28 June 2007
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Presently, the widely accepted theory about the formation process of the Moon is a giant impact between the early Earth and a celestial body the size of Mars, that threw out enough material in orbit that accreted in time to form our only natural satellite.However this hypothesis is not accepted by all the scientific... |
28 June 2007
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Ares V is the new Cargo Launch Vehicle under development at NASA, part of the Project Constellation, aimed to out people on the Moon, again and on Mars, for the first time. Though the rocket is still on the drawing board, scientists are thrilled about what it could carry into space."The Ares V rocket will be able to... |
27 June 2007
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Some strange and bright flashes of light appearing on the surface of the Moon have been puzzling astronomers for centuries. The first reports of bright spots and distortions on the surface that appeared with no apparent cause and disappeared again were made in 1540.In the 1950s and 1960s, there was a huge interest f... |
27 June 2007
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NASA is becoming more and more interested in future scientific applications based on the Moon. The agency asked the US National Research Council (NRC) in 2006 to advise it on what kinds of science could be tackled from the Moon and what projects should be given top priority.They liked the idea of an American astrono... |
25 June 2007
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