On the 2nd of March 1972, NASA launched the first of the spacecrafts in the Pioneer space exploration program, Pioneer 10. All went incredibly well, with only one exception. After traveling about 20 astronomical units, NASA engineers observed what seemed to be an anomalous Doppler effect suggesting that the spacecraf... |
1 March 2008
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The discovery of the asteroid 2007 TU24 represents for astronomers a golden opportunity to learn more about these rogue bodies, as it will pass about 534,000 kilometers over the surface of the Earth. From 27th to 28th of January and from 1st to 4th of February, the Arecibo Radio Observatory in Puerto Rico will make d... |
26 January 2008
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At last, we can see the images we've all been waiting for more than three decades, since the first mission to the small planet in the solar system. The first fly-by of the spacecraft MESSENGER around Mercury was a complete success revealing images of a surface battered by multiple collisions, relatively similar ... |
17 January 2008
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The Messenger spacecraft will be the second space vehicle ever to execute a fly-by maneuver of the smallest planet in the solar system, Mercury, after the spacecraft Mariner 10, which made a total of three during its study of the two inner planets. Launched in 1975, Mariner 10 was the first spacecraft to execute a co... |
8 January 2008
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The robotic spacecraft Rosetta will approach Earth for the second time to boost up its speed and to correct the trajectory. ESA's comet chaser, the Rosetta spacecraft was launched in 2004 and it intended to study the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. It consists of two main elements, the Rosetta space probe and t... |
9 November 2007
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