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Jan 14, 2016
NASA to Make Major Space Station Cargo Transport Announcement Today | NASA
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in category: space
“NASA will make a major announcement today at 4 p.m. EST regarding the future of commercial resupply launches to the International Space Station (ISS). The announcement will be made during a news conference from NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, broadcast live on NASA Television and the agency’s website at: http://www.nasa.gov/nasatv."
Jan 13, 2016
There’s Something Enormous Buried Beneath the East Antarctic Ice Sheet
Posted by Sean Brazell in category: space
Every week, we’re bombarded with images of dazzling terrains on Mars and Pluto, but there are still geologic wonders to be discovered right here on Earth. Case in point: a new study suggests there could be a canyon system more than twice as long as the Grand Canyon buried beneath an ice sheet in Antarctica. If confirmed, the frozen chasm would be the world’s longest by a wide margin.
Faint traces of a ravine system stretching across the remote Princess Elizabeth Land in East Antarctica were first spotted by satellite images. A team of geologists then used radio-echo sounding, wherein radio waves are sent through the ice to map the shape of the rock beneath it. The results of this analysis, published recently in the journal Geology, reveal a chain of winding features over 600 miles long and half a mile deep buried beneath miles of ice.
According to the researchers, the scarred landscape was probably carved out by liquid water long before the ice sheet grew. Satellite images also suggest that the canyon might be connected to a previously undiscovered subglacial lake, one that could cover up to 480 square miles.
Jan 12, 2016
How to create a bill of rights for Mars colonies
Posted by Karen Hurst in category: space
Our descendants may one day live in colonies on the Moon or Mars. How will they be governed? Some are already trying to come up with a space-age constitution.
Could the untold riches in asteroids and other planets be the key to exploring the wider Universe?
Jan 11, 2016
Watch ISS Commander Chris Hadfield Cover David Bowie’s ‘Space Oddity’… In Space
Posted by Matthew White in category: space
Jan 11, 2016
Audi building 3D printed rover to drive across the Moon
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: 3D printing, space
https://youtube.com/watch?v=vBsV2PAaHRo
As part of of the Google Lunar X Prize competition, Audi and Part Time Scientists have teamed up to 3D print a rover capable of landing on the moon’s surface, and traversing at least 500 meters thanks to metal 3D printing technology.
An exposed rock on the dimpled, icy plain recalls a giant slug. The outcropping or lone chunk of debris lies along a demarcation line between different portions of the plain. The line resembles the trail of slime left behind by a slug or snail on the move.
But the line isn’t slime; it marks a unique but subtle pattern on the plain. Zoom out and viewers will see Sputnik Planum divided by a series of lines. The icy plain looks like a collection of cells or tectonic plates.
Researchers say the differentiation is created by a deep-lying heat source. As large regions are gradually warmed, they bulge very slightly before cooling and sinking back. The slow warming and cooling routine creates a cell-like convection pattern.
Jan 11, 2016
We Are From the Future
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: energy, media & arts, quantum physics, space
“Greetings. We are from the future. Everything is going to be alright. The future is a beautiful place. But you will need some training in order to get there…”
Jan 10, 2016
Vietnam Officials Seize Mysterious Metal Balls That Fell From Space
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: habitats, military, space
The real question is what are these? Is it old debris or something else?
Vietnamese military seized three bizarre metal objects that fell from the sky for military investigation. Initial findings showed they are made from Russia and could be part of a failed satellite launch. Similar objects were also found in Turkey and Spain in November 2015.(Photo : World News Times | YouTube)
The Vietnamese military seized three metal balls that fell from the sky on Saturday. The mysterious objects landed in northern Vietnam where witnesses from the Tan Dong and Bao Dap communities heard thunder-like sounds and saw “flying objects” in the sky before the metal balls crash-landed.
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