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Asteroids Away

April 21, 2013 – 9:59 am

Several years ago a NASA spacecraft passed the planet Mercury. A transmitted photo clearly revealed the effect of meteor strikes on the surface. Their impacts of Earth were not so apparent from the Space Shuttle, unless you know where to look like in the Yucatan or polar areas, but most astronomers are more concerned with […]

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Stars And Stars Above

April 19, 2013 – 11:54 am

To celebrate its 23rd anniversary, Space Hubble Telescope released a new spectacular image of the Horsehead Nebula, the dark nebula located in the Orion constellation. The large cloud of hydrogen laced with dust is approximately 1500 light years from Earth and its ‘height’ is about 5 light-years. The molecular cloud, known as a stellar nursery, […]

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Still Lifes On Other Planets

October 21, 2012 – 11:05 am

NASA released photos from their Rover vehicle this last week and I was stuck how much the sere close-up resembled Yves Klein’s BLUE SPONGE. Obviously it was another case of art imitating still life on another planet. There will be many more in the centuries to come. If we are going to the stars. And […]

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Curiosity On Mars

August 15, 2012 – 12:49 pm

Last week NASA landed the planet rover CURIOSITY on Mars. The nuclear-powered vehicle suffered little damage to its recording and testing devices, however the scientists at the NASA Jet Propulsion Lab have set the CURIOSITY on ‘dream’ mode during a four-day upload of software for its initial exploration of the Gala Crater. The mission system […]

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The Mission Ahead

August 9, 2012 – 7:55 am

Cape Kennedy was the epicenter of America’s Space Race with the USSR. The triumphs of Alan Shephard piloting a Mercury-Redstone 15 on a sub-orbital voyage and Apollo 11 moon landing originated on its launch pads as well as the tragedies of the Challenger and Columbia. NASA shut down the space shuttles last year and last […]

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