Category: Space
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Introducing a new era of spacesuits for NASA’s Lunar return
NASA has unveiled a new spacesuit specifically designed for the upcoming lunar mission, aimed at accommodating female astronauts more effectively. The spacesuit, known as the Axiom Extravehicular Mobility Unit (AxEMU), is set to debut in the Artemis III mission in 2025. The new design expects to address the 2019 all-female spacewalk issue of ill-fitting spacesuits.…
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Explore the incredible crater of Australia’s Gosses Bluff
Gosses Bluff is an eroded crater remnant in central Australia formed from an asteroid or comet collision during the earliest Cretaceous period, 142 million years ago. The 3-mile wide crater was originally believed to be 12 miles in diameter before natural erosion took its course. The aboriginal Western Arrernte were the first to recognize the…
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Meet the first flower grown entirely in space, a zinnia flower
“The earth laughs in flowers,” wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson in Nature and Selected Essays. We, humans, spend our entire lives blistering through space on a giant rock we call Earth with flowers in abundance. It is fascinating to know that we too can pollinate the cosmos. NASA astronaut and American engineer Scott Kelly captured the…
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What cities look like at night without electricity
In his series Villes éteintes (Darkened Cities), French photographer Thierry Cohen imagines the world’s biggest cities at night without urban light. Cohen uses a special exposure technique called day for night which enables him to capture the cities in the daytime but increases darkness levels. Then, he combines the city skylines into the backdrop of…
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Mysterious metal monolith found in remote Utah desert
As if 2020 couldn’t get any weirder, the Utah Department of Public Safety stumbled upon a mysterious shiny monolith among red rocks in the remote Utah desert. The crew spotted the “unusual object” during a routine flyover to survey the area for bighorn sheep. In a public statement issued on Tuesday, Utah officials announced that they’re keeping…