People believe many things which are actually not true, and some of them are even ridiculous. Here are the top ten misconceptions about Earth.
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Category Archives: Space Exploration
Top 10 Most Beautiful Earth Images Taken From the International Space Station in 2016
Here are the top ten most beautiful (well, IMHO, of course) photos taken by the astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) in 2016.
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SpaceX unveils the Interplanetary Transport System (a spaceship and rocket to colonize Mars) – video
Elon Musk, the founder, CEO, and Lead Designer of the private space travel company SpaceX announced that “they are planning to get humans to Mars in six years”. In order to achieve this goal, Musk revealed the Interplanetary Transport System, which aims to reach Mars with a human crew for the first time in history.
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Scale of the Solar System (and the first flybys of planets)
Previously I posted two articles titled “If The Moon Were Only 1 Pixel – A Tediously Accurate Map Of The Solar System“, and “A Scale Model of Solar System Drawn in the Desert and the Result is Stunning“. Since the human brain cannot deal with the really large numbers, these articles provide an amazing way to understand how big actually our Solar System is.
Now, I decided to put the Solar System into scale as an infographic. You can see a scaled Solar System below, the planets’ distances from the Sun, and the first flybys over them. Plus some statistics about the planets and our home planet, the Earth.
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Amazing Earth photos from ISS
The Expedition 49* (the 49th expedition to the International Space Station) crew members (Anatoli Ivanishin, Kathleen Rubins and Takuya Onishi) has taken amazing photos of Earth. Four of them has been published on ISS facebook page. They are really, really beautiful and awe-inspiring!
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A Year of Earth From a Million Miles Away
A year after returning it’s first image, NASA’s EPIC camera, a four megapixel CCD camera and telescope attached the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) shows us an entire year of Earth from almost one million miles away. The result is the amazing video below.
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GoPro footage of a rocket launching into space
On November 6th, 2015, UP Aerospace Inc. launched the 20-foot (6 meter) tall SL-10 rocket (a small sounding rocket) into near-space. The mission was to deploy the Maraia Capsule testing the aerodynamics and stability of the payload on re-entry to the atmosphere. The rocket reached an altitude of 396,000 feet (120,700 meters) and speeds up to Mach 5.5 (3800 mph or 6115 km/h) at engine burnout. The event was recorded with an attached GoPro. The action camera has recorded amazing images of Earth and the space.
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SpaceX Falcon 9 lands on a barge (and the Science Fiction saw the future again!)
April 8, 2016 was a historical day which marking a new milestone on humanity’s space adventure: after delivering CRS-8 cargo on its way to the International Space Station, SpaceX Falcon 9 Flight 23, the third flight of the full-thrust version landed vertically on the drone ship Of Course I Still Love You over the Atlantic ocean, 300 km from the Florida coastline, achieving a long-sought-after milestone for the SpaceX reusability development program.
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Edgar Mitchell, the sixth man to walk on the moon, died aged 85
Edgar Mitchell, the American naval officer and aviator, test pilot, aeronautical engineer and NASA astronaut and the sixth man to walk on the Moon, died on February 4, 2016 aged 85.
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Top Ten Most Beautiful Earth Images Taken From the International Space Station in 2015
The astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) occasionally take photos of Earth. Some of them are really cool. Here are the top ten most beautiful (well, IMHO, of course) earth images taken from the ISS in 2015.
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