NASA Selects Two Missions to Explore the Early Solar System NASA has selected two missions that have the potential to open new windows on one of the earliest eras in the history of our solar system – a time less than 10 million years after the birth of our sun. The missions, known as Lucy
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Titan in front of Saturn! Titan is Saturn’s largest moon. This is a true color image from the Cassini spacecraftSome say this moon is more livable than Mars because it’s atmosphere is thicker to protect from space radiation coming down to the surface. It also has liquid methane/ethane lakes!! ⛵️ but Image Credit: NASA
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Astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Peggy Whitson are getting ready for a pair of spacewalks scheduled for this Friday at 7 a.m. EST to upgrade the station’s power system. Whitson is pictured during her last spacewalk which took place in January 2008.
Originally posted by @nasa Earth is a beautiful blue from space! From the International Space Station (@iss) astronaut Shane Kimbrough (@astro_kimbrough) posted this image and wrote, ‘Wishing everyone on Earth a Happy New Year from 250 miles above our planet!’ Image Credit: NASA
According to Einstein’s theory of general relativity, time depends on how fast you go when you’re at extreme speeds (close to light). If person A were to fall into a black hole while person B were to watch, from person B’s perspective, person A’s clock will be ticking much slower. However, from person A’s perspective
Not too sure which year this was taken in, but I found it on Pinterest this morning, and I found it to be rather interesting. It is a picture of astronaut Ed White holding a a very old model of the lunar module that was being proposed at that time. If you look closely at