Confirmation of loss of contact with Voyager 2, currently approximately 21 billion kilometers from Earth. On July 21, commands sent from Earth to Voyager 2 accidentally caused Voyager’s High Gain Antenna to point 2 degrees away from Earth. Therefore Voyager cannot currently receive messages from Earth or send messages in the direction of Earth. A…
The Manhattan Project nicknamed the Trinity Test was the most top secret nuclear test conducted by the United States. The movie Oppenheimer was released about it.Only a handful of people knew about it…after the test America dropped the nuclear bomb on Japan. But after this trinity test there was another group in this world who…
As far as we know, the universe is made up of fundamental particles like electrons and quarks. Everything we see in the universe, including ourselves, is the result of interactions between these particles. Fundamental forces mean interactions of elementary particles. Four fundamental forces have been identified. They are gravitational force, electromagnetic force, weak nuclear force…
Scientists have discovered the world’s most powerful pulsar star. The pulsar, named VT 1137-0337, was discovered in a star cluster 395 million light-years from Earth. The radiation from this pulsar star is strong enough to push nearby particles to the speed of light. The pulsar was discovered by the Very Large Array Sky Survey telescope…
Wernher von Braun A German, he was the forerunner of rocket/(v2) research in Nazi Germany. Later, he migrated to the United States and became the Head of Rocket and Space Technology there. Rather than an aerospace engineer, he is called a space architect because the Saturn V rocket that brought man to the moon is…
Winter brings big changes to Mars. Snow on Mars is not like snow on Earth. There are two forms of snow on Mars. Dry ice is a combination of water ice and carbon dioxide. The former will disperse before reaching the Martian surface. But dry ice can also reach the Martian surface. NASA has released…
Can anyone believe this is Niagara Falls? This is the sight of the world’s largest waterfall frozen in extreme cold. It is a wonderful sight to see the water falling into the waterfall as it turns into icicles. Pictures showing the severity of the extreme cold in Niagara have come out from here. Niagara Falls…
Published by Lockheed Martin, maker of the Orion Capsule. Orion spacecraft captures live view of Earth and moon (video)
The type of map shown below, or the method of showing the earth as a whole, is called Cylindrical projection. This is the map we usually see. Here, the surface of the earth is wrapped around an imaginary cylinder and then spread out to make it look like a flat earth. At that time, the…
The European Space Agency’s spacecraft that carried Philae, the first spacecraft to land on a comet. On March 2, 2004, Rosetta was launched by an Ariane 5 rocket from Kourou, French Guiana, on a 10-year mission to comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Rosetta’s 654-million-km journey entered orbit around the comet on August 6, 2014, and then landed the…
Percy returned to Mars in July 2020. After nearly a year of exploration, yesterday (21 Dec 2022) Percy began one of his main missions, sample deposition. Many holes were dug on the surface of Mars and soil, rock dust, etc. were collected from them in small titanium tubes, sealed and deposited in various places on…
