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Curiosity Self-Portrait at Martian Sand Dune
This self-portrait of NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover shows the vehicle at "Namib Dune," where the rover’s activities included scuffing into…
Curiosity Self-Portrait at Martian Sand Dune
This self-portrait of NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover shows the vehicle at "Namib Dune," where the rover’s activities included scuffing into…
What’s up in solar system exploration: February 2016 edition
What’s going on with our robotic planetary missions? In February I count more than 20 planetary spacecraft exploring six targets…
Seeing Is Believing: Enormous Shuttle Program Artifact Inspires Wonder
Independence Plaza, a new exhibit at Space Center Houston, lets visitors walk inside the aircraft that ferried the space shuttle…
Would This New Planet X Clear It’s Orbit? And Why Call It “Planet Nine”? What Do We Call The Next Planet X?
Everyone has started to call this new proposed planet X: "Planet nine" as in the original announcement. Even Wikipedia has…
Trippy Trip Over Colorful Dwarf Planet Ceres | Video
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratary has created an enhanced color animation of Ceres that highlights the differences in surface material. NASA’s…
“Quantum Hell” –The Universe Before the Big Bang (Today’s ‘Galaxy’ Insight)
Martin Bojowald, a professor of phycics at Penn State University, presents his fascinating ideas about “Loop Quantum Cosmology” in Once…
NASA Television to Air Russian Spacewalk
NASA Television will broadcast live coverage of a 5.5-hour spacewalk by two Russian cosmonauts aboard the International Space Station beginning…
Apollo Mission Moon Rocks –“Evidence of a Head-On Collision 4.5 Billion Years Ago”
The moon was formed by a violent, head-on collision between the early Earth and a "planetary embryo" called Theia approximately…
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