Category: Solar system

Chinese space station construction: First stage passengers return in capsule …

October 2, 2021

Three astronauts return on Friday after completing China’s longest space mission. The astronauts spent 90 days on the Tianhi module on China’s space station, 380 km from Earth.On June 17, Nei Heisheng, Liu Booming and Tang Honbo went aboard the Shenzhou-12 spacecraft. They returned at 1.30pm on Friday in a capsule in the Gobi Desert…

$ 146 million to develop a Moon Landing Module !!

October 2, 2021

NASA plans to release such a large amount to SpaceX, Blue Origin, and three other companies. These companies have been given 15 months to operate. Dynamics is expected to make the largest payment of $ 40.8 million. Blue Origin will receive $ 25.6 million and SpaceX $ 9.4 million.

POINT NEMO – Earth Cemetery of Space Vehicles

October 2, 2021

Point Nemo, also known as the “Space Cemetery Cemetery”, is an uninhabited area in the South Pacific Ocean. It is a region of the South Pacific Ocean east of New Zealand. It is located at a distance of about 2,400 km (1,500 miles) between Easter Island, Pitcairn Island and Antarctica.Therefore, the humans closest to Point…

Unknown object on the surface of Jupiter

September 30, 2021

It was discovered by Brazilian scientist Jose Luis Pereira during a routine investigation of Jupiter. An object crashes into Jupiter. No such incident has been reported so far. This was observed by Pereira using a QHY5III462C camera with a Newtonian 275mm F5.3 telescope at the Sao Caitano do Sul in Sao Paulo, Brazil. It was…

MSR Program – Mars Sample Return Program

September 30, 2021

NASA’s Perseverance rover successfully landed on the surface of Mars in February 2021.The main purpose of Perseverance is to collect soil and rock samples from the surface of Mars and deliver them to Earth. If things go as planned by NASA and the European Space Agency, these samples will reach Earth by 2031. This project…

Lakes on the Titan

September 29, 2021

This infrared color image shows a special reflection of the hydrocarbon lake Kivu Lacus on Saturn’s moon Titan. Kivu Lacus is the smallest lake on Titan – about 77.5 km wide, located very close to the north pole of Titan.This image was taken on July 24, 2012 by Cassini Flyby, also known as the Cassini…

CUTE in search of secrets of planets hotter than the sun

September 29, 2021

The Colorado Ultra Violet Transit Experiment (CUTE) Cube Satellite launches to learn more about planets that are warmer than the Sun. Cute will collect information on the hottest planet ever discovered, including KELT-9b. The Atlas V rocket was launched from California on September 27 with Lantasat. Kevin France, a researcher at the Laboratory for Atmospheric…

Wonders of the Solar System Planets

September 28, 2021

The Ingenuity helicopter is known to have flown to Mars. This is the first time a vehicle has been controlled on a planet other than Earth. At present we do not have aircraft or vehicles capable of flying over other planets. But in the future, that may be the case. So if you fly in…

Apophis is coming ..

September 27, 2021

A piece of rock with a diameter of only 370 meters is in a light collision probability course with our Earth. It will reach its closest orbit to Earth in 2029. This time the probability of a fall is low but again it will return to 2068. The Subaru (Japanese) Telescope made a worrying discovery….