Tag: Space exploration
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Meet Enceladus – and the (alien) life in the Solar System
I have already written about Enceladus in the past – a frozen world orbiting Saturn and one of the most likely to support life…
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Space Features of the Week (20 January)
Here my periodic summary of some of the space news worth discussing this week. As usual, I have provided a link and included my comments,…
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Eerie Jupiter – from Juno with love.
That NASA’s Juno spacecraft was going to deliver amazing science we already knew. And when, in June 24, Juno crossed the boundary of Jupiter’s…
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Space Features of the Week (16 October)
Mainly for reasons of (lack of) time, I have decided to start a periodical feature on this blog devoted to space news. There are…
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Bye Bye, Rosetta – How to crash on a comet
All good things end sooner or later, and Rosetta’s mission – an absolute first in space exploration (read the story and the success here)…
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See you on Proxima B? Habitable exoplanets in our backyard
It is quite recent news that we might have discovered an exoplanet suitable for life orbiting the closest star to the Sun – exciting, isn’t…
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Stranded in LA – California Science Center
Worldcons recently seem ill-fated to me; this is the second year in a row that I can’t make it. This time, I even flew…
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Guest Post – The Moon Village and the Space Economy
(This is the English version of the article “Il Villaggio Lunare parlerà “europeo”? [Will the Moon Village speak “European”?] by Fausto Mescolini, first published in Italian on Il…
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Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson
Aurora (2015) by Kim Stanley Robinson is centred on a generation ship en route to a Tau Ceti’s Earth-like exoplanet to begin a colony.…
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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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Waiting for Juno
Next week, July, 4th, the spacecraft Juno will finally enter Jupiter’s orbits after five years in space. Juno’s objectives for this mission are to…
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Skies from other planets – The peaks of eternal light
In the day of the Summer Solstice – the longest day of the year – I thought appropriate talking about the famous peaks of…
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(More) Space Art from NASA
I have already written about the beautiful artwork produced by NASA over the years, so I won’t go through any lengthy explanation – this…
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Exoplanet Update – Where are we now?
Four days ago, NASA made an amazing announcement – the biggest discovery of exoplanets to date. According to their figures, which added 1,284 planets…
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News from Saturn – Getting ready for Cassini’s plunge
It is not a real news that the glorious Cassini’s mission will come to an end in April 2017, when the spaceship will plunge…
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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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NASA wonders (almost) in the making
That NASA is getting back to its past splendours is a suspicion I harbour since a while, considering the increasing number of the Agency’s…
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Sun parties on Mercury
“The sun is always just about to rise. Mercury rotates so slowly that you can walk fast enough over its rocky surface to stay…
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New Horizons reaches the Kuiper Belt’s inner edge
After its historical fly-by of Pluto last year, New Horizons is now well on its way to explore more of the Kuiper Belt’s area…
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Under a Venusian sky
This is the second post of the series “how your sky looks when observed from another planet”. I have already briefly spoken about the…
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Skygazing in the Solar System – what does it look like?
One thing I always wondered is how the sky looks when observed from another planet; and as a matter of fact, only in few…
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Dawn’s best imagery
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…
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Planet 9, X, and counting…
For a bizarre coincidence, I’ve written about the fabled (and infamous) Planet X just this time last year, mentioning that, from the analysis of some…