Earth in the third dimension

The German satellite TanDEM-X was launch into orbit on a mission to map more accurate to be made available to the surface of the Earth. The satellite will fly radar technology with identical platform called TerraSAR-X launched in 2007. Both measured variations in the height of the globe with an accuracy of better than two meters.

Its digital elevation model will have many uses, from helping military jets fly ultra low height to show where rescue workers was worse the damage caused by an earthquake.

Significance makes Earth look like a potato

A satellite is record variations in Earth's significance gives us a different view of our planet from space looks like a potato. And yet, the information provided by this model is the sharpest view we have of how gravity varies across the Earth. The device was released by the team working on the European satellite GOCE.

Are a new type of planets and dark alone?

U.S. astronomers discovered what they explain as a new class of planets: 10 dark bodies floating lonely far from any host star. The discovery was detected in the center of the Milky Way. The scientists, who published the findings in the journal Nature, believe these planets, which are the size of Jupiter, were expelled from their original planetary systems.

According to Professor David Bennett, professor of astrophysics and cosmology at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana,

Mars is still an "embryo" of planet

The planet Mars twisted in record time and reached its current size in just three million years, much faster than scientists thought. That rate of formation of the Red Planet could explain that its mass is one tenth of that of the Earth. The study supports a theory more than two decades, according to which the planet remained small because it avoided collisions with what would become the "planetary construction materials", ie other objects in space. The finding is published in the journal Nature.

In the early days of the solar system before the planets were formed, a cloud of gas and dust surrounding the Sun Scientists believe that the planets arose from the accumulation of this material driven by electrostatic energy.

The mysterious birthday Neptune

Neptune is approximately 4400 million kilometers away from Earth. Neptune is about to celebrate its first birthday. On July 12 will be a year-Neptunian-terrestrial or 164.79 years since its discovery on September 24, 1846. But why do we know so little about the distant planet?

At approximately 4400 million kilometers from Earth lies Neptune, the first planet in the solar system to be discovered deliberately. After classification of the planet Uranus in 1780, astronomers have been puzzled by his strange orbit. Scientists concluded that either Isaac Newton's laws had a fundamental flaw or something else-another-planet Uranus was pulling its expected orbit. And so began the search for the eighth planet.

Hubble finds out fourth moon of Pluto

 The Hubble Space Telescope exposed a fourth moon orbiting the planet Pluto, as NASA said.

The Hubble was looking rings around the planet, located in the outer edge of our solar system, when he came across P4, the temporary name has received newfound moon.

Mercury shows best kept secrets

Mercury place in foreign hidden craters, volcanic nature has an powerful, large amount of sulfur and convulses with energy blasts. These are the first findings of the data obtained by NASA's Messenger probe.

After nearly three months orbiting Mercury, this device has sent to Earth new data-with some surprises, on the composition of the Solar System planet closest to the Sun. The probe entered orbit around Mercury on March 18 and thus became the first spacecraft to achieve.