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Thursday, October 2, 2014

India took a picture of Mars—and found a picture of India

Indians space odyssey are swooning over the first images of Mars taken from their country’s Mars Orbiter Mission—and some are saying MOM captured not just the Red Planet, but also an image of India.

UPI reports that the shape resembles the sub-continent is a surface discoloration.

Trying to find any shapes in the dust and clouds may be as meaningful as, well, staring at the clouds of earth. 

Thursday, August 8, 2013

Astronomers were able to take a picture of "The Decline in Mordor"

Scientists from the European Space Agency / European Space Agency, ESA / Hubble using / Hubble Space Telescope, HST /, which is currently orbiting the Earth, got a photo and called it "The Decline in Mordor." The picture shows clearly seen darkening cloud, due to which light penetrates the star, which was formed recently.

Curiosity rover paves the path for the first steps of man on Mars

According to scientists, in their first year on Mars, NASA's Mars rover Curiosity made ​​a discovery that should help pave the way for a human mission to the Red Planet, which is planned for the next few decades.

"Solid spacecraft Curiosity, brought to us useful information on the radiation level on the surface of the Red Planet in deep space. 

Live Stream Output Russian cosmonauts into space

On Friday, August 16 and Thursday August 22, NASA TV will broadcast live spacewalk outside the International Space Station, two Russian cosmonauts. Two Russian cosmonaut flight engineers - Fedor and Alexander Jurchihin Misurkin, leave the airlock, "Pierce" at about 10:40 in the morning and come out into open space, 

The three brightest asteroids

In the next few weeks will have to the perfect opportunity to chance the three brightest asteroids in the sky in the middle of stargazing. These cosmic objects are small in size, but quite bright. Not many amateur astronomers could see them move across the sky. But in the next few weeks, all of us will have the great opportunity to see a flight of three asteroids - Flora, Juno and Iris in the night sky.

Wednesday, August 7, 2013

The consequence of the change of magnetic fields on the sun for the solar system

As recently it became known, our Sun will soon change the magnetic poles. But what specific consequences for us is this event?  The process of changing the magnetic poles which are known to occur on the Sun every 11 years will occur in the next 3-4 months.

Although this is not a catastrophic event, the change of the magnetic poles we  feel for yourself. 

Tuesday, August 6, 2013

The Commission's proposal of ESA to reduce dependency on the U.S. space technology

The Commission of the European Space Agency has put forward a proposal to develop their own space technologies to reduce Europe's dependence on space technology and military influence of the United States. 

Agency commission is once again trying to consolidate the overall efforts to develop its own space technology related to global positioning system,