Category: Science
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CASSINI’S FINAL PLUNGE!
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft will make its mission-ending dive into the atmosphere of Saturn in 9 days. It will bravely make it’s plunge on September 15th.
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40th Anniversary of Voyager
NASA On September 5, 1977, Voyager 1 was launched on a mission to explore where nothing had flown before. First on its journey were Jupiter and Saturn and it is currently exploring interstellar space. Its twin spacecraft, Voyager 2, visited Uranus and Neptune and is now in the outermost layer of the heliosphere, called…
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Alien Seekers Report Repeated Radio Bursts
Breakthrough Listen – a global astronomical initiative to find signs of intelligent life in the universe, launched in 2015 by Internet investor Yuri Milner and cosmologist Stephen Hawking used the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia to observe the bursts from the mysterious distant object known as FRB 121102.
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Water on TRAPPIST 1 Planets?
Planets in the TRAPPIST-1 system An international team of astronomers used the Hubble Space Telescope to estimate whether there might be water on the seven earth-sized planets orbiting the nearby dwarf star TRAPPIST-1. The results suggest that the outer planets of the system might still harbor substantial amounts of water. This includes the three planets…
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Cassini: A Saturn Odyssey
Team members reflect on what has made the NASA/ESA Cassini mission such an epic journey — the extraordinary spacecraft, tremendous science and historic international collaboration. This video uses a combination of animation and actual imagery returned over the course of the mission.
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Meet Richard, a NASA Solar System Ambassador
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Richard Stember is a NASA Solar System Ambassador volunteer who shares his passion for space with the public. Is this something that would interest you? You can apply to be an ambassador, too! For more information about NASA’s Solar System Ambassadors program, visit https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/ssa/home… .
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Most Deadly and Devastating Hurricane Forecast to Strike U.S. in Over a Decade: Red Cross Mounting Massive Relief Effort
Red Cross Offers Critical Flood Safety Steps as Storm Nears Land; Urges Gulf Coast Residents to Heed Evacuation Orders
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Hanergy and Audi Sign MOU on Strategic Cooperation in Thin Film Solar Cell Technology
Hanergy Thin Film Power Group Limited today announced that its wholly-owned US subsidiary Alta Devices has signed with AUDI AG a Memorandum of Understanding on Strategic Cooperation in Thin Film Solar Cell Technology. Two parties will jointly undertake the “Audi/Hanergy Thin Film Solar Cell Research and Development project”.
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THE ECLIPSE IS TODAY!
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THE LARGEST DEAD ZONE
Did you know that there are oxygen depleted waters in the Gulf of Mexico? Scientist have tracked this dead zone for 32 years. The one that’s occurring this year is the biggest yet.