Delivering a speech on the occasion of Space Physics Laboratory Day on Monday on the topic “Searches for life outside Continue reading
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Falcon 9 launch created a hole in the Ionosphere
Several layers make up the Earth’s atmosphere. When rockets are launched into space, these have some impact on the atmosphere. It is similar to how airplanes have chemtrails. Continue reading
NASA’s new spacesuit has a toilet in it
People still make jokes about the “Russian Space Pen,” but there’s one thing no one jokes about in the space program: going to the bathroom. In a zero-gravity environment, human waste becomes a sanitation and engineering nightmare. This is why the spacesuits NASA is creating for the Orion spacecraft will hearken back to the Apollo suits of the 1970s – they’ll have built-in toilets. Continue reading
ANDROMEDA galaxy was formed in recent star crash says study
The Milky Way’s neighbouring galaxy, Andromeda, was formed in a colossal crash between two smaller star systems no more than three billion years ago when Earth already existed, researchers said Wednesday. Continue reading
OSIRIS-REx captures earth moon image from 63 million km away
As part of an engineering test, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft captured this image of the Earth and Moon using its NavCam1 imager on January 17 from Continue reading
Asteroid passes close to earth
A recently discovered asteroid zipped within 39,000 miles (64,000 km) of Earth on Friday, the second space rock to pass within the orbit of the moon during the week, according to NASA scientists. Continue reading
NASA snaps farthest ever image by a spacecraft
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has set a new record by capturing the farthest images from Earth by a spacecraft, surpassing the Voyager 1’s record of capturing an image when it was 6.06 billion km away from Earth. Continue reading
Ozone hole not recovering on populated areas
The ozone layer that protects people from the sun’s ultraviolet radiation is not recovering over most highly populated regions, scientists warned on T Continue reading