Officials with the Vienna, Virginia-based Orbital Sciences Corporation (OSC) announced that the space plane they are developing to taxi astronauts to low-Earth orbit will be called Prometheus.The move shows consistency with the line the company took some time ago, when officials there decided to go with Greek mytholo... |
9 February 2011
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Star Trek Online, the MMO based around the well-known television universe, has faced an uphill struggle ever since it was released and met with mixed reactions from gamers, but it seems that the developers have big plans for 2011. Their plans, revealed via a pretty lengthy Questions & Answers session on the officia... |
14 January 2011
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A group of investigators has recently presented new evidence that suggest two of Saturn's moons play an important part in creating disturbances in the gas giant's F ring. The structure was discovered only a few decades ago, but it has been undergoing important changes ever since. Researchers have been searc... |
21 July 2010
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A recently released picture of the F Ring around Saturn shows it being obliterated on a certain portion by the passing of the tiny moon Prometheus through it. The image was snapped by the NASA/ESA Cassini spacecraft on August 21. The probe, which has been orbiting the gas giant for many years, took advantage of its d... |
26 November 2009
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Saturn, the celestial version of the “Lord of the Rings,” doesn't just have one ring, as many might believe. In fact, what is perceived from pictures as a single, compact ring is formed of seven distinct smaller ring divisions, labeled from A to F. The main, more massive and compact rings are (from t... |
12 November 2008
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