Showing posts with label Space. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Space. Show all posts

06 March 2020

NASA Has Released Its Highest Resolution Panorama Of Mars

NASA's Curiosity rover has captured its highest-resolution panorama yet of the Martian surface. Composed of more than 1,000 images taken during the 2019 Thanksgiving holiday and carefully assembled over the ensuing months, the composite contains 1.8 billion pixels of Martian landscape.

18 January 2020

SpaceX Is Blowing Up A Perfectly Good Rocket On Sunday


SpaceX will launch its Crew Dragon in-flight abort test flight to Sunday, Jan. 19, at 8 a.m. EST (1300 GMT) and then blow it up.  This is a just a test to see to see if it can carry a crew to safety in the event of an accent or emergency.  There will be no Crew aboard during the test on Sunday.

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SpaceX designed Crew Dragon to be one of the safest human spaceflight systems ever built. To date,the companyhas completed more than 700 tests of Crew Dragon’s SuperDraco engines, which will power the spacecraft away from Falcon 9and carry crew to safety at any point during ascent or in the unlikely event ofan emergency on the launch pad. In May 2015, SpaceX completed a pad abort demonstration of Crew Dragon.

Watch The Launch https://www.space.com/17933-nasa-television-webcasts-live-space-tv.html and the Webcast from SpaceX https://www.spacex.com/webcast

25 April 2018

Uranus smells like rotten eggs, according to scientists using Hawaii telescope

Uranus smells like rotten eggs, according to scientists using Hawaii telescope: Uranus smells like...

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27 February 2018

Matt Brown, former scientific editor and writer, debunks some of...



Matt Brown, former scientific editor and writer, debunks some of the most common misconceptions about the final frontier.



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