The Science of the Red Planet
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Mars will appear around 4 in the morning near the star Antares in the heart of the constellation Scorpius the Scorpion. It will grow in brightness from Magnitude 1.6 to 1.4.
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30 light-years from Earth, scientists have discovered a planet half the mass of Jupiter orbiting a red dwarf one-tenth the mass of our sun.
NASA has awarded $17.4 million to private companies to fund research in creating rocket fuel from ice found on various planetary bodies.
NASA scientists are experimenting with a probe that can change from a rover to a flying drone to a submersible, making it easier for the probe to study Titan's varied terrain.
Titan: the largest moon of Saturn with a thick atmosphere. New research suggests that the water ice on our Moon's south pole may have had more than one source and may have arrived more recently than previously thought.
The same International Astronomical Union (IAU) that "killed" Pluto is renaming Ultima Thule. Now, this Kuiper Belt Object (KBO) is called Arrokoth, meaning "sky" in the Powhatan/Algonquian language.
Kuiper Belt: a ring of icy objects beyond Neptune including Pluto, Eris, and Arrokoth. This book is a great reference on the solar system complete with maps from Our Sun to the smallest moons of our solar system. Unfortunately, it is not up to date on Pluto and does not provide a map for it. Apart from that, it is a good resource for amateur astronomers.
This documentary is all about the exploration of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, from the Cassini-Huygens mission to future human colonization. This documentary was awesome!
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Ryan Knipple
"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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