Your coolest high school science project probably involved some baking soda and a paper mâché volcano, right? A little chemical reaction and a big mess? Well, kids these days are smarter than you. They’re building satellites and sending them to space.
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NASA’s Mars orbiter MAVEN launched successfully today from Cape Canaveral, Florida at 1:28PM EST. Once it arrives in orbit around the Red Planet, the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN orbiter will gather data about Mars’ upper atmosphere to try and discover how exactly the planet got to be so dry and atmosphere-poor. Earlier probes suggest […]
The rumble of power just got stronger and more insistent as we heard the countdown in Russian through our headsets and then, "Pusk." Liftoff.
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If you have been following the comet ISON as it makes its trip towards the sun, it has reached a very interesting phase. The comet has continued to brighten as it hurtles through the solar system and has so far remained intact. The comet began to brighten rapidly a few days ago. Shortly after the […]
Do not adjust your monitor: Mars hasn’t really been given a rainbow paint job. In fact, this image is a color-coded topography showing the heights and depths of the planet’s Ismeniae Fossae region.
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Engineers and safety specialists from NASA and SpaceX met in late October to conduct a safety review of the Dragon spacecraft and the Falcon 9 rocket. NASA announced that the meeting took place last Friday. The safety review was designed to look at the safety policies and procedures in place in preparation for using the […]
The European Space Agency will launch three satellites this week from Russia’s Plesetsk Cosmodrome to gather data about the Earth’s magnetic field over the next few years. The planet’s magnetic poles have been shifting more and more rapidly over the last couple of decades, possibly as part of their usual flip from north to south […]
NASA this weekend all but abandoned a money-saving technology due to a lack of money. You read that correctly. The space agency’s budget woes are so suffocating that it can’t even get the funding to develop ways to make missions more efficient. In this case, the efficiency would have been massive: the Advanced Stirling Radioisotope […]
Astronaut Mike Hopkins tweeted this picture last night, taken from the International Space Station. Pretty cool, huh? It looks more like an oil painting of a tiger than the surface of what we call a "blue" planet. Just more proof that everything looks cooler from space
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After narrowly avoiding the chopping block
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