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Tuesday, March 5, 2013

Cold bed in the Sun


Observations with the infrared Herschel Space Telescope discovered the star Alpha Centauri A strange "cold bed", exactly the same as that of our sun.

Our star is composed of six layers: the core, where fusion reactions occur, areas of radioactive transfer, convective zone, photosphere, chromospheres and corona. 

Sunday, March 3, 2013

Restoration Curiosity rovers


Last Thursday (February 28) fails, in which the rover operators were forced to switch from the main system to a back-in and break up research Curiosity.

On Saturday, the rover out of the "safe mode” and on Sunday again mobilized antenna with high gain. One of the options for further work, the operator in question Curiosity, 

Wednesday, February 20, 2013

The Depths of ocean Europe


 Found proof that the ocean in Europe, Jupiter, and a captive under a layer of ice has an exit to the surface.

The mission of Galileo (1989-2003) bring a lot of scientist’s important data about Jupiter and its moons, but the on-board infrared spectrometer probe was not able to identify all the parts needed to refine the mineral composition of the surface of Europe. Now, using a spectrometer OSIRIS (Keck Observatory, Hawaii), the researchers have made an interesting discovery.