Dec 09
You’ve probably never lent Mars’s northern pole a great deal of thought, but you can explore it in wonderful 3D glory in this ESA video.
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Dec 07
A planet eleven times as big as Jupiter has been discovered orbiting a star at a distance of 650 astronomical units. That’s 650 times as far from its star as Earth is from our own star. Never have we discovered a planet to be orbiting a star at so nearly great a distance. The planet […]
Dec 07
On this day in 1972, the Apollo 17 crew snapped this photograph, later dubbed “The Blue Marble.”
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On this day in 1972, the Apollo 17 crew snapped this photograph, later dubbed "The Blue Marble." Photographed using a 70-millimeter Hasselblad camera with an 80-millimeter Zeiss lens, and credited to all three Apollo 17 astronauts (Eugene Cernan, Ronald Evans and Jack Schmitt), this rare image of a fully-illuminated Earth has become one of the world’s most recognizable photographs. No human has since traveled far enough into space to see such a full view of earth, though similar shots have since been taken by unmanned spacecraft. [NASA History Office; image: Wikimedia]
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Dec 06
Cthulhu as branding: Yesterday, the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office launched a classified satellite called NROL-39, destined to carry out surveillance and security work in orbit. The official patch, above, paints a pretty vivid picture of its mission. [NASA Spaceflight; Quartz]
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Dec 06
The city of Boca do Acre is a beautiful place to live, almost completely covered by the Amazon Rainforest—for now. Because you shouldn’t be fooled by the pretty colors in this image: it actually reveals the rapid rate of deforestation in the area.
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Dec 06
Moon Express is one of the companies hoping to win the Google Lunar X Prize competition worth as much as $30 million. Not too long ago the company was celebrating a successful free flight test with the NASA Mighty Eagle lander. Moon Express has this week unveiled its own lunar lander called the MX-1. Moon […]
Dec 05
For all the futuristic advancements packed into modern space-based telescopes, they all still rely on the same bulky, heavy glass optics that Galileo used centuries ago. But thanks to this DARPA project, future telescopes could eventually use optics as thin as saran wrap to peer into deep space.
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Dec 05
NASA has unveiled some new images that the Cassini spacecraft has taken of Saturn and one of the massive storms raging on the surface of the planet. The storm in question is very unique and has the shape of a hexagon. The six-sided storm is located on the north pole of Saturn. The storm is […]
Dec 05
Back in November, NASA launched the latest version of its PhoneSat into orbit. The PhoneSat 2.4 satellite launched at 8:15pm on November 19 hitching a ride into orbit using a Orbital Minotaur I rocket. PhoneSat 2.4 built on the successful flights of other small satellites that used smartphones for their brain. The goal of the […]
Dec 05
Solar energy is one method for powering homes and such with renewable resources, something that has seen great strides in past years but that still suffers from various limitations. One Japanese company has a big vision for the technology that would overcome some of these limitations, and it involves putting solar panels on the moon […]
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