China is on track to reach Mars in 2020: Rocket that will carry a rover to the red planet blasts off for the first time
China is one step closer to meeting its ambitious plans to travel to the moon, and then to Mars, after the successful launch of its biggest rocket yet. The heavy-lift Long March 5 rocket will one day carry payloads to the country's permanent space station, and a rover to Mars in 2020.On Thursday night it successfully blasted off in front of thousands of spectators, carrying the Shijian-17 ion propulsion technology experiment satellite towards a geosynchronous orbit.Scroll down for video The CZ-..>> view originalMaps can't accurately depict the earth's curved surface. But this one comes close
It can be easy to forget, when looking at maps of the world, that the earth looks completely different. In flattening the curved surface of the earth, cartographers often sacrifice scale for size: Antarctica doesn’t stretch endlessly across the bottom of the earth, and China equals the size of the United States — including Alaska and Hawaii.But the AuthaGraph has tried to get closer to the earth’s curved reality: by angling the continents themselves.Hajime Narukawa at Keio University's Graduate..>> view originalWill NASA's New Asteroid Intruder Alert System Warn Us In Time Of Incoming Danger?
Do you lie awake at night fearing the possibility that life as we know it could suddenly end if Earth is hit by an asteroid or comet? With the intention of preventing that from happening, the good folks at NASA have devised a collision-bound asteroid early detection system. Utilizing constantly fed data supplied by global telescopes, this Near Earth Asteroid Scout computer program, or NEAScout, searches for any growing threat to Earth from an approaching space rock. Earlier this week, when an as..>> view originalNASA is trying to keep part of its giant golden telescope a secret
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center NASA on Wednesday announced a huge milestone in its $8.7 billion James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) mission: the completion of the observatory's gigantic golden mirror. To commemorate the moment, the space agency's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) released a dramatic video about the telescope on YouTube. "The efforts of thousands of people across the United States, Canada, and Europe, for almost two decades achieved this mile..>> view originalSchiaparelli crash site in colour
Composite of the ExoMars Schiaparelli module elements seen by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) on 1 November 2016. Both the main impact site (top) and the region with the parachute and …>> view originalHow much Arctic sea ice are you melting? Scientists have an answer
Climate change may sometimes seem so big and abstract that it can be difficult to grasp the scope of the problem. But now, scientists have found a way to bring the numbers down to Earth: For every metric ton of carbon dioxide released into the air, three square meters of Arctic sea ice disappear. If you do the math, this means the average American is melting roughly 50 square meters of those frozen reserves every year.The findings, published in the journal Science, highlight the direct effect t..>> view originalLOOK: Space Station Could Be Seen From Earth Using New Interactive Map
Nov 04, 2016 06:12 AM EDT As NASA marks its 16 years of humans living and working in the International Space Station (ISS), it is also striving to connect with people back on Earth as the orbiting lab flies overhead. To the naked eye, the ISS is more visible at dawn and dusk and appears as the third brightest object in the sky. From Earth, the space station looks like a fast-moving plane only much higher, traveling thousands of miles an hour faster. NASA's Spot the Station tool allows people ..>> view original
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