In the grand scheme of the Solar System, by far the greatest source of energy is the Sun. And, generally, we assume that the hottest planet in the Solar System is Mercury, because it is the one that is closest to the Sun. However, this is not so, and that award must be taken by … Read more
What’s the smell of clouds? , which said in an advertisement for compresses on TV. But the important thing, if we want to colonize Mars, is to find out what Mars smells like and prepare ourselves psychologically for that smell , for example doing spectroscopy of the atmosphere of Mars to capture the "aroma" and … Read more
Elon Musk’s company, SpaceX , does not stop giving us joy, and now it has just put two new communications satellites into orbit from Cape Canaveral (Florida), as you can see in the video that you can see below. The two satellites, the Eutelsat 117 West B , which will cover Latin America, and the … Read more
The journey of Apollo XI , the first space mission that managed to place a human being on the Moon, has managed to come true in a brutal reproduction of Lego pieces by popular acclaim, after obtaining the necessary 10,000 votes . The Apollo 11 Saturn-V, then, will soon be able to decorate our offices … Read more
We get the good news that NASA has contractually extended the science operations of its Hubble Space Telescope for another five years . This action will take effect from July 1 to June 30, 2021. The amount of the contract will increase by more than 196 million dollars to 2,030 million dollars . This contract … Read more
Tridymite is generally associated with silicic volcanism that is known on Earth, and it was not believed to be very important, however it has just been found on Mars as well. The person responsible for the discovery of this unexpected mineral has been NASA’s Curiosity rover, after carrying out an X-ray analysis of the remains … Read more
On June 30, 1908, what appeared to be a huge thermonuclear detonation took place some five miles above Tunguska , Siberia. In reality, what probably took place was the explosion of a comet that came from space: when it did not reach the surface, no crater was produced, and the lack of debris makes us … Read more
Sponsored by the famous Stephen Hawking , the COSMOS supercomputing center at the University of Cambridge has announced the purpose of creating the most detailed 3D map of the universe since the Big Bang. COSMOS is currently thelargest shared memory devicein Europe , boasting 1,856 Intel Xeon E5 processor cores, 31 Intel MIC Many Integrated … Read more
The last piece of the 4,450 panels that make up the great disk of the largest radio telescope in the world, the FAST (500-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope), has finally been put in place, thus completing the installation in a karst valley in Pingtang County, of the southwestern province of Guizhou, China. Construction of the FAST … Read more
NASA’s Juno space probe successfully enters the orbit of Jupiter . The calculations and threats that made Juno’s trip to Jupiter "the most complicated NASA has ever done." NASA boasts. The risky 35-minute maneuver was to decide the future of the mission, which is expected to circle Jupiter more than 30 times . Shortly after, … Read more
NASA successfully flew over Mars for the first time on July 14, 1965, on this day 51 years ago, using its Mariner 4 probe, which sent the first close-up images of the surface of Mars to Earth . The Mariner 4 consisted of a magnesium octagon, 127 centimeters long and 45.7 long. The mass of … Read more
The last Waiwai Indians lived in a remote tropical forest bordering Brazil. The few who had not yet decided to move to cities or government-sponsored camps retained a knowledge of cosmology comparable to that of the inhabitants of the pre-scientific West: both the movements of the planets and the cycles of the seasons had a … Read more
An international team of researchers has revealed in The Astrophysical Journal the capture of 104 exoplanets, which have been validated by observations with ground-based telescopes. Four orbit the same star and could look like Earth. The finding adds to those already made by the Kepler space mission that, since 2009, has allowed us to discover … Read more
Graffiti is not confined to the walls of big cities, almost always appealing to absurd nicknames or lapidary phrases of dubious taste. They were also found inside Apollo 11, created by astronauts who traveled to the Moon in July 1969. The Smithsonian Museum in the United States made available to the public a 3D scan … Read more
The objective of the Quantum Experiments at Space Scale (QUESS) mission is to create a super-secure communications network that potentially links people anywhere in the world and, for this, China is going to launch the world’s first satellite designed to conduct experiments. quantum . The 600-kg-mass spacecraft is the latest in a series of science … Read more
Provided there is a dark and clear sky, from today and all weekend, a spectacular meteor shower can be seen anywhere in the world: the Delta Aquarid meteor shower . Up to 20 meteorites can be seen per hour, although they will continue to be seen on successive days to a lesser extent. But what … Read more
The make-up of the universe is so difficult to imagine that any object or structure we encounter will always seem relatively small by comparison. However, there are things that are bigger than others, sometimes much more. The Earth, for example, is something tiny, a mere grain of dust. The sun is a standard G star, … Read more
Just a few years ago, our hopes of traveling to Mars seemed like science fiction, an excessive and fruitless waste: it was much more reasonable to send probes to study the red planet than to send humans to colonize it. But in a very short time things have turned 180 degrees . Now not only … Read more
In the middle of this month of July, a spectacular sand storm hit the Canary Islands and crossed the Atlantic, crossing more than 8,000 kilometers to reach the coast of Texas (United States) and the Yucatan Peninsula (Mexico). To capture the enormity of the phenomenon, NASA has taken the photo that heads this post, a … Read more
Mars is the fourth planet in the solar system in order of distance from the Sun. It is sometimes nicknamed the red planet due to the reddish appearance of the iron oxide that dominates its surface. It has a thin atmosphere, made up of carbon dioxide, and two satellites: Phobos and Deimos. Elon Musk assures … Read more
With a relatively modest camera, a Nikon CoolPix P900, a compact one equipped with an 86x NIKKOR fixed lens , one is able to focus on the moon and feel it so close that you would almost say that you have traveled there at super speed, as you can see. in the next video. There … Read more
The first US space mission to bring samples of an asteroid to Earth will take place in less than a month, and the samples brought back will be the largest ones brought to Earth since the Apollo mission. Takeoff is scheduled for September 8 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (Florida). The ship responsible for … Read more
The so-called ‘tears of Saint Lawrence’ are actually small dust particles of different sizes, but this year they promise to be more intense than usual. "In perfect conditions, the rate of meteorites could rise to 200 per hour," Meteorologist Bill Cooke has pointed out on the NASA website. Tonight is especially busy, so look up … Read more
Rosetta is a space probe of the European Space Agency (ESA) that was launched on March 2, 2004. The probe’s mission was to orbit comet 67P / Churiumov-Guerasimenko in 2014 and 2015, sending a lander , Philae, to the surface of the comet. Inspired by this magnificent work of space technology, Vangelis has composed his … Read more