Jul 18, 2015
NASA just found something big hiding out behind Pluto
Posted by Sean Brazell in category: space
NASA and the team behind its New Horizons spacecraft announced today that Pluto — the dwarf planet — has a giant tail.
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Jul 18, 2015
Soar Over Pluto’s Heart at 77,000 Kilometers in This New Animation
Posted by Sean Brazell in categories: space, space travel
Jul 17, 2015
The ESA’s Head Just Dropped a Proposal to Build a Village on the Moon
Posted by Sean Brazell in category: space
Jul 17, 2015
High-res image of Pluto’s moon Charon shows strange depressed mountain
Posted by Sean Brazell in category: space
We’re getting even crisper images of Pluto’s largest moon Charon. NASA just released the first high-resolution photograph of a section of Charon’s surface, zeroing in on a feature that looks like a…
Jul 16, 2015
NASA seeking to unlock secrets of longevity
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: life extension, space
SpaceX Falcon 9 v1.1 rocket with NASA CRS 7 Dragon launches from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40 in Florida photo credit Carleton Bailie SpaceFlight Insider.
Jul 14, 2015
How to plan the ultimate long-term project, from the team who got us to Pluto — By Daniel Terdiman | Fast Company
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in categories: space, space travel
One thing you don’t expect when planning a nine-year mission to the most distant planet in our solar system is the eventuality that Pluto might not be a planet once you got there.
Yet that’s exactly what went down in 2006. That January, NASA launched its unmanned New Horizons probe, a baby grand piano-sized, 1,054-pound spacecraft, on the first-ever route to Pluto. Then, in August 2006, the International Astronomical Union demoted Pluto to the diminutive status of “dwarf planet.”
Sophia Nasr is a science writer for Simulation Curriculum’s free Pluto Safari app. You might guess that a small and distant world almost 40 times farther from the sun than the Earth is from the sun would not have an atmosphere, but in the case of Pluto, you’d be wrong. In fact, Pluto is a complex world, particularly when it comes to weather patterns.
Jul 12, 2015
Pluto’s Mysterious Dark Splotches Come Into Focus
Posted by Sean Brazell in category: space
At this point, it’s safe to say that we’re going to be receiving a new ‘highest resolution image ever’ of Pluto on a close to 24 hour basis. Yesterday, we got our first peek at geologic features on the dwarf planet’s surface. And today, New Horizons beamed back the best image to date of four mysterious dark splotches near Pluto’s south pole.
Jul 11, 2015
New Horizons Update: Latest Pluto Images Reveal ‘Tantalizing’ Surface Features
Posted by Sean Brazell in categories: space, space travel
After a journey of over nine years, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is finally close enough to discern surface features on the cold, dwarf planet.
Jul 10, 2015
Secrets of Bear Hibernation Could Help Us Get to Mars
Posted by Albert Sanchez in categories: space, space travel
By studying bears’ months-long lethargy, scientists may have stumbled on a way to prevent astronauts’ bone loss.
