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Smithsonian’s Folklife Festival Celebrates NASA’s 50 Years
Moon buggies, stardust and space food are a few of the things visitors will learn about at the “NASA: 50 Years and Beyond” program during this summer’s Smithsonian Folklife Festival. The program will showcase the… Continue reading
New observations from Phoenix provide the most magnified view ever seen of Martian soil, showing particles clumping together even at the smallest visible scale.
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Astronaut Mike Fossum continues his duties during this the second of the STS-124mission’s three scheduled spacewalk. During the seven-hour, 11-minute spacewalk, Fossum and fellow astronaut Ron Garan installed television cameras on the front and rear of the Kibo… Continue reading
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The Robotic Arm on the Phoenix Mars Lander took a second scoop full of soil and revealed whitish material at the bottom of the dig area. Scientists are debating whether this is a salt layer or the top… Continue reading
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Space shuttle Discovery performed a slow back flip and then docked at the international space station on Monday, delivering a mammoth lab and two new occupants: a NASA astronaut and Buzz Lightyear… Continue reading
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Time travel, death stars and invisibility cloaks - writer and noted scientist, Michio Kaku, believes they could all be possible in the not to distant future.
To the skeptics he points out that aeroplanes, lasers, televisions and atomic bombs were all considered impossible by scientists in the past.
On Wednesday’s Riz Khan we speak with noted scientist Michio Kaku author of Physics of the Impossible.
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This raw, or unprocessed, image was taken by Phoenix on its second sol, or Mars day, May 27, 2008.
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Joint NASA-French Satellite to Track Trends in Sea Level, Climate
PASADENA, Calif. – A satellite that will help scientists better monitor and understand rises in global sea level, study the world’s ocean circulation and its links to Earth’s climate, and improve weather and climate forecasts is undergoing final preparations for a June 15 launch from California’s Vandenberg Air Force Base.
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NASA Satellite Finds Interior of Mars Is Colder
May 15, 2008
New observations from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter indicate that the crust and upper mantle of Mars are stiffer and colder than previously thought.The findings suggest any liquid water that might exist below the planet’s surface, and any possible organisms living in that water, would be located deeper than scientists had suspected.”We found that the rocky surface of Mars is not… Continue reading
HISTORY OF ASTRONOMY
BY
GEORGE FORBES,
M.A., F.R.S., M. INST. C. E.,
(FORMERLY PROFESSOR OF NATURAL PHILOSOPHY, ANDERSON’S
COLLEGE, GLASGOW)
AUTHOR OF “THE TRANSIT OF VENUS,” RENDU’S
“THEORY OF THE GLACIERS OF SAVOY,” ETC., ETC.
CONTENTS
PREFACE
BOOK I. THE GEOMETRICAL PERIOD
1. PRIMITIVE ASTRONOMY AND ASTROLOGY
2. ANCIENT ASTRONOMY—CHINESE
AND CHALDÆANS
3. ANCIENT GREEK ASTRONOMY
4. THE REIGN OF EPICYCLES—FROM PTOLEMY TO COPERNICUS
BOOK II. THE DYNAMICAL PERIOD
5. DISCOVERY OF THE TRUE SOLAR SYSTEM—TYCHO BRAHE—KEPLER
6. GALILEO AND
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Crashes on the Moon
Luna 5 was an unmanned Soviet spacecraft designed to continue investigations of a lunar soft landing. On May 10, the spacecraft began spinning around its main axis due to a problem in… Continue reading
