Science, History, and Fiction in Everyday Life
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 mankind, that’s Mars. Impossible not to think here about cultural references – music, fiction and even science,…
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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 missions and amazing discoveries in recent years. Today, reading this week’s edition of New Scientist, I am definitively…
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“The sun is always just about to rise. Mercury rotates so slowly that you can walk fast enough over its rocky surface to stay ahead of the dawn. (…) Mercury’s ancient face is so battered and irregular that the planet’s terminator,…
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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 and objects. Its new target is (most likely) KBO2014-MU69, which the spacecraft is expected to reach…
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This is the second post of the series “how your sky looks when observed from another planet”. I have already briefly spoken about the Moon (here). Today’s post is about the Earth’s twin, Venus. For a start, let’s assume for…
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One thing I always wondered is how the sky looks when observed from another planet; and as a matter of fact, only in few cases we know how it does for real, even though simulations give us a fair idea….
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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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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 ETNOs (Extreme Trans-Neptunian Objects), there was some evidence of unknown gravitational pull affecting their orbit. More…
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One of the most valuable results New Horizons was able to deliver in its historic Pluto’s flyby was more information and precious imagery of its moon system -which is far more interesting than anybody had imagined. A lot has been…
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If there is a famous image for Jupiter, it’s for sure the one of its Great Read Spot, which is a giant, spinning, fast travelling storm in Jupiter’s atmosphere – a sort of huge hurricane, about twice the size of Earth…
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