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…
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…
It will be like a LIVELY LUNAR COLONY The richest citizens in the world spend between $ 200,000 and $ 250,000 per ticket to secure a seat on Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic flights. SpaceX’s most recent civilian flight was a nine-digit flight. But a design company is offering a short lunar trip…
NASA’s SpaceXCrew 1 mission holds the record for the longest spaceflight. The NASA team, led by Michael Hopkins, spent 64 days growing the two species of plants. This is the longest period to date. Extra dwarf and mustard Amstra varieties of Chinese cabbage were cultivated in space. NASA had earlier released details of their space…
Images taken by NASA’s Juno Orbiter from 8000 km above clearly show the shadow of Io, a satellite above Jupiter. The shadow of IO, about the same size as our moon, is only a small shadow above the globular giant Jupiter. This is an event similar to our solar eclipse. The eclipse is a small…
A giant asteroid the size of a 32-story building passed close to Earth last week. None of the world’s leading astronomical, astronomical, and astronomical observatories, including NASA, have been able to detect it. It could not be detected by intense sunlight. The asteroid passed half the distance between the Earth and the Moon above ground…
In the late 1800s, animosity between Edison, a spokesman for direct current (DC), and the George Westinghouse-Tesla alliance in favor of alternating current (AC) became known as the ‘current war’. . Edison’s company argued that DC was good for commercial use. Westinghouse, on the other hand, spread the word that AC was good. However, in…
The Buran Project was introduced by the Soviet Union in 1980 in response to the US space program. The Soviet Union spent about 20 billion rubles (275 million) on it. Construction of the Buran spacecraft began in 1980, and by 1984 the first full scale orbiter had been released. The Buran spacecraft was launched in…
On Valentine’s Day, February 14, 1990, Voyager 1 took a selfie with his camera back to Earth. This selfie should be remembered from the endless loneliness, 600 crore kilometers away from the earth. Our earth is smaller than a pixel in the image. When viewed from such a distance, the Earth appears as a tiny…
