Science, History, and Fiction in Everyday Life
After having published a list of Wonders of the Solar System, it seems just right setting up an entry in the Media Gallery with some of them – namely, moons. NASA is obviously the richest repository, and most of the…
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There are not a lot of things in space cooler than planets, and Saturn can rightly claim the crown for the coolest one (I personally prefer Uranus, but I’m a minority opinion). And since Cassini reached Saturn’s orbit in 2004, we’ve been…
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We all know by now that, differently from what SF movies led us to believe, you can’t hear a sound in space. Therefore no spectacular Star Wars kind of explosions, which rather respond to the Rule of Cool than to astrophysics….
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From Nasa’s Cassini mission, voila’ the Exagon, Saturn’s glittering North Pole…