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On the afternoon of 4th March 1966, a squadron of jet fighters hovered over Aizawl and dropped bombs leaving a number of houses in flames...
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The Romans knew of seven bright objects in the sky: the Sun, the Moon, and the five brightest planets. They named them after their most...
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Confirming what the Beatles always knew, astronomers have actually found a diamond in the sky - directly above Australia. It is t...
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Thanks to an orbiting astronaut, we now know the answer, and it is even stranger than you might expect . Astronauts say the unique smell...
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Turkmenistan's aptly named Door to Hell, a 230-foot-wide crater in the middle of the desert near the village of Deweze . In 1971, a...
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The March 11,2011 magnitude 9.0 earthquake in Japan may have shorten...
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Saturn is sometimes called the ”Jewel of the Solar System” because its ring system looks like a crown. The rings are well known, but o...
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What happened to SS Ourang Medan or “Man from Medan” in Malaysia is perhaps one of the most fascinating and mind-boggling mysteries that ...
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There are nearly 38,000 of man made objects orbiting the earth since the launch of sputnik in 1957, such as parts of...
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Saturn floats. As big as the planet Saturn is, if you were to put it in the universe's biggest glass of water, it would float. This i...
Overview
- Curiosity is just the name of the rover; the overall mission is referred to as the Mars Science Laboratory or MSL
- Of the previous 39 missions to Mars, including orbiters and landers, only 15 have been successful
- All six successful landers have been NASA missions, though a Soviet lander did broadcast for 14 minutes before contact was lost
- The Mars Science Laboratory mission cost $2.5 billion which is about $1 billion over budget
Specifications of the rover
- The Curiosity rover weighs 900 kilograms
- When on Mars it will be able to move at 30 meters per hour depending on the terrain
- Curiosity has 17 cameras and 10 other scientific instruments
- These include a mobile organic chemistry lab and a laser that can vaporise rocks
- The rover is powered by a radioisotope thermoelectric generator and lithium-ion batteries
The Mission
- The main mission is expected to last for one Martian year or about 98 weeks
The MSL mission has four scientific goals:
- Determine whether Mars could ever have supported life
- Study the climate of Mars
- Study the geology of Mars
- Plan for a human mission to Mars
Ocean waters do hold gold – nearly 20 million tons of it. However, if you were hoping make your fortune mining the sea, consider this: Gold in the ocean is so dilute that its concentration is on the order of parts per trillion. Each liter of seawater contains, on average, about 13 billionths of a gram of gold.
There are nearly 38,000 of man made objects orbiting the earth since the launch of sputnik in 1957, such as parts of old space rockets sent up by Russia, China, Europe and the USA etc, lots of military and civilian satellites used for communication, navigation, research and reconnaissance, space probes sent to explore planets like Mars, the Hubble Space Telescope used to look deep into space and the International Space Station.
A team at Boston Children’s Hospital have invented a micro-particle that can be injected into your bloodstream to oxygenate your blood – without any help being required from your lungs.
The particles are able to keep a patient alive for up to 30 minutes after respiratory failure – which is normally enough time to prevent a heart attack or brain damage due to oxygen deprivation.
Thanks to an orbiting astronaut, we now know the answer, and it is even stranger than you might expect
.Astronauts say the unique smell aboard the International Space Station is reminiscent of two things - meat and metal.
It has been described as like 'seared steak', 'hot metal' and welding fumes'.
Astronaut's have largely agreed on the scent.
Three-time spacewalker Thomas Jones said returning to the ISS, 'carries a distinct odor of ozone, a faint acrid smell.' and is 'sulfurous'.
The March 11,2011 magnitude 9.0 earthquake in Japan may have shortened the length of each Earth day and shifted its axis. But don't worry—you won't notice the difference.
The calculations also show the Japan quake should have shifted the position of Earth's figure axis (the axis about which Earth's mass is balanced) by about 17 centimeters (6.5 inches), towards 133 degrees east longitude. Earth's figure axis should not be confused with its north-south axis; they are offset by about 10 meters (about 33 feet). This shift in Earth's figure axis will cause Earth to wobble a bit differently as it rotates, but it will not cause a shift of Earth's axis in space—only external forces such as the gravitational attraction of the sun, moon and planets can do that.
Shortened days on Earth by 1.8 microseconds
Jupiter has no surface for a spacecraft to land on because it is made mostly from helium gas and hydrogen. The massive pull of Jupiter’s gravity squeezes the hydrogen so hard that it is liquid.
Jupiter is about 90% hydrogen and 10% helium with traces of methane, water, ammonia and "rock". This is very close to the composition of the primordial Solar Nebula from which the entire solar system was formed