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Aug 15, 2018
Can’t get out of bed? NASA picked the perfect songs to wake up its Mars rover
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: energy, space
Aug 15, 2018
India to launch its first manned space mission by 2022
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: space
Aug 15, 2018
Let’s pray for clear skies 🙏
Posted by Michael Lance in categories: space, transportation
The International Space Station (ISS) will be visible to the naked eye in several areas in the country starting tonight!
According to the NASA website, the space station looks like “an airplane or a very bright star moving across the sky” and moves considerably faster than a typical airplane.
Aug 14, 2018
Amazing New Brain Map of Every Synapse Points to the Roots of Thinking
Posted by Marcos Than Esponda in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience, space
“There are more synapses in a human brain than there are stars in the galaxy. The brain is the most complex object we know of and understanding its connections at this level is a major step forward in unravelling its mysteries,” said lead author Dr. Seth Grant at the Center for Clinical Brain Sciences.
Imagine a map of every single star in an entire galaxy. A map so detailed that it lays out what each star looks like, what they’re made of, and how each star is connected to another through the grand physical laws of the cosmos.
While we don’t yet have such an astronomical map of the heavens, thanks to a momentous study published last week in Neuron, there is now one for the brain.
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Aug 14, 2018
The iron-nickel asteroid 16 Psyche could supply Earth with metals for several million years at current rate of consumption
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in category: space
NASA conception) 
Using satellite images of Lombok from the days following the Aug. 5 quake, scientists from NASA and the California Institute of Technology’s joint rapid imaging project made a ground deformation map and measured changes in the island’s surface.
In the northwest of the island near the epicenter, the rupturing faultline lifted the earth by a quarter of a meter. In other places it dropped by 5–15 centimeters (2−6 inches).
NASA said satellite observations can help authorities respond to earthquakes and other natural or manmade disasters.
Aug 12, 2018
The Battle for a Star Trek Future: Federation vs. Terran Empire
Posted by B.J. Murphy in categories: government, space
When I think about our future, I cannot help myself but look upon the fictional universe of Star Trek. Not just because of their unabiding pursuit “to boldly go where no one has gone before,” but equally their philosophical measurement of their day-to-day lives.
As the U.S. government continues to impose xenophobic policies and attempts to militarize space, our future runs the risk of becoming something similar to the tyrannical (albeit fictional) entity known as the Terran Empire.
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Aug 11, 2018
Live: sneak preview of this year’s mission to Mercury
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: space
By New Scientist staff
It’s time to return to Mercury. The solar system’s boiling-hot innermost planet will have a visitor soon – a probe called BepiColombo, which is set to launch in October 2018. After seven years of journeying through the inner solar system, the spacecraft will enter Mercury’s orbit in 2025, and help to unravel the mysteries of this tiny, scorched planet.
Mercury is a bit of an enigma. Despite being so close to the sun and reaching temperatures of 350°C, NASA’s Messenger probe saw what looked like ice in the craters near the planet’s poles when it passed by in 2012. Messenger also found that Mercury has a tenuous atmosphere, even though it is blasted with intense radiation from the sun. And in 1974, NASA’s Mariner 10 probe detected a magnetic field on Mercury – a surprising find, as Venus, Mars, and the moon don’t have one.
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