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BOLD NEW MISSIONS PLANNED FOR JUPITER AND SATURN Print E-mail
jueves, 05 marzo 2009
NASA and the ESA wants to send two new missions, first to Jupiter, then Saturn.
 
NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) are working their way through its proposed mandar ambitious missions to explore Jupiter, Saturn, and many moons are around both planets, as the two space agencies announced Wednesday.
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EMISSIONS OF METHANE ON MARS SUGGEST THAT THE PLANET IS ALIVE. Print E-mail
jueves, 05 marzo 2009
Today Mars is a desert world, cold and desolate, seemingly devoid of any life, at least on the surface. Even worse than that, it seems that Mars has been cold and dry for billions of years, with an atmosphere so thin that liquid water quickly evaporates from the surface and ultraviolet radiation from the sun cooked the ground.

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DAWN SPACE PROBE LAUNCHED Print E-mail
martes, 25 septiembre 2007
To decode the mysteries of the birth of the Solar System, NASA launched the probe Dawn this afternoon to begin their research into 2 of the largest asteroids orbiting the sun.
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THE BIGGER PLANET Print E-mail
domingo, 23 septiembre 2007
A team of astronomers has discovered in recent weeks in another planet of the solar system more radio and less densely all whose mass and radius are known surpassing almost 2 times the size of Jupiter. THREE-4 is the name given by the group of scientists and because it is the fourth planet detected by the network of telescopes 10 cms THREE (Transatlantic exoplanet Survey).
 

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QUADRUPLE GALAXY MERGER Print E-mail
domingo, 23 septiembre 2007
Four galaxies are colliding, divided by the Spitzer Space Telescope of NASA and the MMT and WIYN telescopes, will join each other in the future in a unique and monstrous galaxy 10 times the mass of our own, the Milky Way. This rare sighting provides an unusual and valuable window into how they form the most massive galaxies in the universe.

 
 
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KAGUYA SATELLITE LAUNCHED TO THE MOON Print E-mail
lunes, 17 septiembre 2007
Japan he joined the select group of countries with USA, Russia and the European component has launched a satellite into space over the lunar orbit. The launch occurred on September 15 on the island of Tanegashima, where the Japanese Space Center, west of Japan.

 

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VENUS EXPRESS Print E-mail
miércoles, 05 septiembre 2007
The European Venus Express probe has exceeded the 500 days around the planet Earth brother. According to the drivers, the vehicle is in perfect condition and operating normally. Meanwhile, scientists continue to analyze the data sent by the ship, information not surprising. Have accumulated large amounts of images, spectra and data of temperature, pressure and chemical composition of the atmosphere transmitted during the last 500 days and had already published some initial findings, but the real results have not yet appeared in scientific journals.
 
 
LIQUID WATER INSIDE CHARON Print E-mail
lunes, 27 agosto 2007
Geisers cast icy material upward through cracks in the crust, could be the explanation for the presence of water ice crystals on the surface of Charon, the tiny satellite of Pluto companion.
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GOOGLE EARTH FROM THE UNIVERSE Print E-mail
viernes, 24 agosto 2007
Google has added an attractive feature to its Google Earth program. Now, this not only look to the Earth, but also to the Cosmos.

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COSMOLOGICAL SIMULATION Print E-mail
sábado, 18 agosto 2007
A research team led by Carnegie Mellon University, which includes specialists from the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Germany and the Center for Astrophysics (CFA) recently developed a model for the simulation of cosmic evolution that verifies the current knowledge on relations between black holes and the galaxies they reside.

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POSSIBLE COLLABORATION BETWEEN USA AND UNITED KINGDOM ON THE MOON Print E-mail
viernes, 17 agosto 2007
The United States and United Kingdom could collaborate on a future lunar mission since the auto company Surrey Satellite Technology (SSTL) has received a contract to conduct a preliminary study of nine months.

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