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Jul 28, 2018
LIVE: NASA — National Aeronautics and Space Administration live stream of the total lunar eclipse
Posted by Alberto Lao in category: space
Jul 28, 2018
Lunar Eclipse: July 28 ‘blood moon’
Posted by Michael Lance in categories: biotech/medical, space
Watch on Rappler the longest total lunar eclipse of the century, and Mars will be right next to the eclipsing moon http://www.rappler.com/science-nature/earth-space/208321-how…nce-nature
Jul 27, 2018
Hayabusa2 descends from Home Position to take its first close look at Ryugu
Posted by Alberto Lao in category: space
Harvesting plants in microgravity with resident farmer, astronaut Ricky Arnold, studying tiny organisms and their big role in astronaut health and uncovering how the crew catches 💤’s aboard the International Space Station. For all this and more, watch the latest episode of NASA’s Space to Ground:
Jul 27, 2018
Capture an asteroid, bring it back to Earth?
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in category: space
BEIJING — Next time when your kids ask you to bring them a star from the sky, you don’t have to shrug and walk away. Tell them to wait, instead.
A group of Chinese scientists are mulling a bold idea to capture a small near-Earth asteroid, which might be a potential threat, and bring it back to Earth to exploit its resources.
“Sounds like science-fiction, but I believe it can be realized,” said Li Mingtao, a researcher at the National Space Science Center under the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
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Jul 27, 2018
COSMOS: POSSIBLE WORLDS | Official Trailer | FOX BROADCASTING
Posted by Derick Lee in categories: futurism, space
Watch the official trailer for Cosmos: Possible Worlds.
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Jul 26, 2018
Watch Astronauts Trip And Fall On The Moon From The Apollo Missions
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: space
Jul 26, 2018
Liquid Water on Mars! Really for Real This Time (Probably)
Posted by Alberto Lao in category: space
A radar instrument on one of the oldest operational Mars orbiters has discovered possible evidence of present-day liquid water on Mars.
Liquid water on Mars? Again? Yes, again. The announcement came at a press briefing held by the Italian Space Agency in Rome, concerning a paper published today in Science.
How is today’s water-on-Mars hoopla different from all of the past announcements? In brief: the evidence is from a new instrument, examining a new location on Mars, and it’s the first place we’ve seen evidence for a present-day body of water that is liquid and stays liquid. For years.
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