Looking at my site, I’ve come to notice that news concerning the Red Planet has been a bit sparse of late. Lucky for me, I had several interesting stories sitting in my inbox which were just waiting to be read, and more than a few had to do with Earth’s closest neighbor. And as we […]
Bad News From Space!
Between the Mars rovers, deep space probes, and long-term plans to mine asteroids and colonize Earth’s neighbors, there’s just no shortage of news from space these days. Unfortunately, not all of it is good. For instance, NASA recently announced that the Kepler space telescope, which was launched back in 2009 for the purpose of identifying […]
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Big News in Quantum Computing!
For many years, scientists have looked at the field of quantum machinery as the next big wave in computing. Whereas conventional computing involves sending information via a series of particles (electrons), quantum computing relies on the process of beaming the states of these particles from one location to the next. This process, which occurs faster […]
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News From Space: Opportunity Hits New Record!
With the Curiosity Rover blazing a trail across Mars to find evidence of what the planet once looked like, people often forget about it’s venerable predecessor – the Opportunity Rover. Luckily, Opportunity recently broke a record that put it back in the public eye and into the history books. After nine years into what was […]
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Preventing the Apocalypse: NASA’s Asteroid Lasso Mission
Shortly after that large meteor hit Russia, President Obama and NASA administrator Charles Bolden both announced that work would begin on a series of asteroid tracking technologies that would ensure that more severe Earth collisions would be prevented. Earlier this month, Bolden spoke at the Mars Summit in Washington, D.C. and said that a robotic […]
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Neil Armstrong’s EKG Available for Auction
The video of Neil Armstrong taking man’s first step onto the Moon is perhaps the most iconic pieces of footage humanity has ever produced. To Armstrong, seeing the Earth shining back at him must have been the most gorgeous, awe-inspiring sight ever. But to the crews manning Mission Control, Armstrong’s electrocardiogram reading was what they […]
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News From Space: SpaceShipTwo Completes First Test Flight!
Well, technically this news come from the lower atmosphere, but seeing as how the ultimate purpose is to get into space, I think it qualifies. Earlier this week, Virgin Galactic made history when it’s aerospace carrier, SpaceShipTwo, conducted its first powered test flight and broke the sound barrier. As the latest in a long series […]
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Zodiac
Zodiacal light, the kind that takes millions of years to come What revelations will it share, which are already so old? The edge of the universe, the boundary of creation Pulsing with the same power that once beget it all. How can it be, when a billion are swirled into one, And a billion more […]
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Yellowknife
The blue disc burned in the night sky as it neared the horizon. The father it sank, the more the dust that hung low and hugged the surface appeared to mottle and disturb its shimmering pattern. It was the strangest thing, thought Frank Meier. On a world as red as blood and rust, the skies […]
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