Science, History, and Fiction in Everyday Life
… If you have thought we were done with Pluto (who dares still calling it a dwarf, planet or anything?), well, get ready. NASA has just revealed another stunning detail sent over by New Horizons in its historical flyby of July,…
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… 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 a few gas giants’ satellites store substantial quantities of it – think of Europa, for example….
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It seems surprises are not over yet – at least judging from what the newly-downloaded data from New Horizons showed to NASA scientists. Together with the highest resolution pictures sent so far and a trove of spectral data and compositional…
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Dust has not yet settled on Pluto’s amazing Flyby that New Horizons got more job to do. Or so it seems. In a way, it’s logical. The probe is the fastest spacecraft ever launched and one of the most sophisticated…
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Not satisfied with having already uploaded an amazing series of recording about space events and planetary radio emissions, and even created a radio (Third Rock), now NASA had made available something really unique: the compilation Golden Record: Greetings to the…
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This is the periodic update about articles I have contributed in these last months to other blogs. Compared to last year I have been rather slow, and this is due to the fact that other writing got in the way…
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I can’t almost believe Pluto Day has arrived. While I’m writing this New Horizons, after a trip of nine years, is at T-3, 94,670 miles / 152356.6km away from performing the most awaited flyby of this start of the century,…
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Yes, you read it correctly. With New Horizon’s historical mission, the first era of planetary exploration – where we have explored all planets of our solar system – comes to an end. But this is also a new beginning. From…
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Eris is the name of the Greek goddess of chaos and discord, famous for being the one who caused the Trojan War by throwing the a golden apple with the inscription “To the fairest” during the wedding of Peleus and Thetis,…
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One of the most exciting features of New Horizons, on its way for the expected Pluto’s flyby next month, is the amazing pictures the tiny spacecraft has been able to take and send back to us. Since it came out last December from…
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