Science, History, and Fiction in Everyday Life
Vesta is a well-known place in terms of space exploration, but one people don’t necessarily know a lot about, let alone understand why NASA should even send a mission there. So, I’ve decided to write a quick post to tell…
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Dawn’s mission to Ceres has certainly been one of the highlights of 2015 space missions, exploring a new world in the Asteroid Belt and sending over to Earth a trove of data and imagery, some of them truly stunning. While…
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2015 is an amazing year for space missions (not that 2014 has been a bad one) – plenty of them under way and expectations are high for the results they are going to deliver. New Horizons: if 2014 has been the…
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If you have always wondered, like me, how would it be in practice living on another world, you can’t possibly miss the series recently prepared by Karl Tate for Space.Com, which is simply amazing. So far, Karl has published infographics for…
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Today March, 6 NASA’s Dawn has finally completed its historic mission and entered Ceres’ orbit after 7.5 year of travel. The first space mission to have reached not one but two previously unexplored (dwarf) planets/asteroids, Dawn has previously studied Ceres’ twin Vesta in…
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