The Science of the Red Planet
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In honor of the 50th Anniversary of the historic Apollo 11 Moon Landing, Giles provides a complete history of space exploration with timelines and cut-away schematics of the rockets that sent probes and astronauts into space. Two thumbs up!
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You can find out more about Honey and Bumble at www.astronomy.com or at NASA's website at www.nasa.gov. Yes, it is good to know that Mars won't be visible for about two months! It is a shame, though. We won't be able to observe everyone's favorite planet!
The Mars InSight Lander, once thought to be a failure is back on track, uncovering its digging instrument called the "mole" and recording its first tremor on Mars, perhaps the first recorded "Marsquake"
"Marsquake": a tremor like an earthquake but on the surface of Mars. The dwarf planet, Ceres, also our solar system's biggest asteroid, has volcanoes spewing water ice, suggesting a liquid water ocean beneath the surface.
SpaceX's new Starlink satellites have raised concerns about light pollution and clogging Low-Earth Orbit!
Low-Earth Orbit: an area slightly above Earth's atmosphere where spacecraft typically orbit around Earth. Cubesats may be smaller than the first artificial satellite, Sputnik, but NASA plans to use them for future satellite communications on Earth.
Scientists are studying the history of our Sun through elements trapped in rocks brought back from the Moon.
Astronomers have discovered a binary system of asteroids, called 1999 KW, which passed Earth's orbit within 14 times the distance from the Earth to the Moon.
The red color on Pluto's Virgil Fossae region may be due to cryovolcanoes ejecting ammonia onto the surface.
Cryovolcanoes: Volcanoes that erupt ices onto the surface of a planetary body. |
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"In our time, we have sifted the sands of Mars, established a presence there, and fulfilled a century of dreams." Archives
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