by rmil2k | Nov 3, 2023 | News
The Andromeda Galaxy, a key object in the discovery of the nature of the universe. Credit: Tony Hallas Our species has been around on the planet for approximately 200,000 years. That’s some 8,000 generations, quite a long while any way you slice it. And certainly our...
by rmil2k | Nov 3, 2023 | News
In about one year from now, the European Space Agency will launch its Hera mission. Its destination is the asteroid Didymos, and it’ll be the second human spacecraft to visit the 390-meter chunk of rock. NASA’s DART mission crashed a kinetic impactor into Didymos’...
by rmil2k | Nov 3, 2023 | News
The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over Venezuela’s Lake Maracaibo, the largest natural body of water in South America.Zoom in to explore this image at its full 10 m resolution or click on the circles to learn more.The vase-shaped Lake Maracaibo extends about...
by rmil2k | Nov 3, 2023 | News
For the record, Ken Mattingly never did get the German measles.The former NASA astronaut, who in 1970 was pulled from the Apollo 13 crew due to being exposed to the Rubella virus, died on Tuesday (Oct. 31) at the age of 87. Mattingly’s death was confirmed by...
by rmil2k | Nov 2, 2023 | News
A computer-generated image of the metal-rich Psyche asteroid. Credit: NASA. The cars, cellphones, computers and televisions that people in the U.S. use every day require metals like copper, cobalt and platinum to build. Demand from the electronics industry for these...
