Tag: Mars
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Space Features of the Week (4 June)
It’s again the moment for a summary of the space news worth discussing this week (and in the past few). This time there are a…
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Oceans of life? The Solar System and beyond
I have recently seen a lot of articles discussing the so-called ocean worlds – that is, all planets and celestial objects that are not…
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Images of space – what’s available online
There’s nothing better for space lovers that seeking (and finding) beautiful images of near and far space objects, some of them in amazing resolutions.…
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Space Features of the Week (27 November)
A lot of interesting things in the news this week. Even though some are not per se “new”, I found them quite captivating both…
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Space Features of the Week (26 October)
We have been somehow spoiled in the last years by a few amazing achievements, but let’s not forget that space remains as extreme a…
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Mars-bound – See you on the Red Planet
According to some recent news, it seems that pretty much everybody is on its way to Mars. You doubt? Have a look at the list…
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The Last Days on Mars (2013). A review.
The Last Days on Mars, otherwise said, Zombies meet Aliens in The Martian’s setting – without all the quality and the thrill. This is,…
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We love Mars – future home in space
If there’s a place that has been constantly in the mind of all space lovers in terms of a future home in space of…
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SF Classics – The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
The Sirens of Titan (1959) by Kurt Vonnegut is a SF novel portraying a Martian invasion of Earth. Its main theme is free will, and…
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Water on Mars, what’s the big deal?
… I mean, it’s not like there’s no H2O anywhere in the Solar System apart from our planet. We know for a fact that…
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Jupiter, Destroyer of Worlds
There have been in these last weeks many news discussing aspects of the biggest gas giant of the Solar System, and one of them has caught my…
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Living in the Solar System, a colonist’s guide
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…
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Writing about space and physics for other blogs / 4
Latest articles published on Serious Wonder, all of them devoted to space missions, present or future. UNDER THE KRAKEN SEA – A NASA SUBMARINE…
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Book Review: The Martian – Andy Weir
Reviewing The Martian is not an easy task, for a series of reasons. The most important is that there has been a lot of hype around…
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Solid Bodies in the Solar System – a great map
That xkcd is an amazing website, you already know (and if you don’t, go and have a look at it now! You won’t regret it).…
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2014: a year of (awesome) space missions
2014 will be a year to remember for space missions. No matter what achievements are awaiting us in the future (hopefully plenty), the last 12…
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Wanderers. Why Erik Wernquist’s short movie is so amazing
If you were dreaming about the day we are going to leave and explore the Solar System, take space elevators down to Mars and…
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Writing about space and physics for other blogs / 3
The usual update about my latest published articles on other blogs/magazines – these ones on from Serious Wonder. This time I have only included the…
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The visitor from the Oort Cloud
This Sunday Earthians will witness something truly unique, estimated to happen maybe once every million years: a comet the size of a small mountain will…
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Amazing videos about space
Thanks to internet you have now access to a quantity of high-quality materials about space and stars simply unbelievable. You have only to browse…
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Writing about space for other blogs / 2
My latest published articles on Serious Wonder. Incidentally, there are also a few more on space and SF posted by other contributors – I do recommend having…
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SF Classics – The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
” The Martian Chronicles” by Ray Bradbury is a 1950 science fiction short story collection that follows a future history structure and tells the…
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SF Classics – Stranger in a Strange Land, by Robert A. Heinlein
Written in 1961, it narrates the story of Valentine Michael Smith, a human born on Mars, raised among Martians and shipped back to…
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The Crystal Crypt, by Philip K. Dick
I have read a fascinating short story last night, a classic of Philip K. Dick, The Crystal Crypt. I had some far-away memories, since…