Tag: Nasa
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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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NASA and ESA capture closest images of the sun ever taken
NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) have snapped the closest pictures ever taken of the sun. The images, taken nearly 48 million miles away from the sun’s surface by the Solar Orbiter probe (launched February 9), reveal countless tiny flares which scientists have called “campfires.” Scientists hope that these never-before seen exterior shots will […]
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Take a look back at NASA’s true-color view of Pluto
On this day in 2015, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft gave us the first look at Pluto’s dynamic planetary body. The flyby images capture a world with ice mountains, nitrogen glaciers, and hauntingly beautiful blues hazes in the dwarf planet’s atmosphere. Writes NASA in its love letter to Pluto, the farthest world in our solar system: […]
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The evolution of the spacesuit
As spacesuit design continues to become thinner, intricate, and more dynamic — there are touchscreen sensitive gloves, an attached helmet and built-in ventilation in the latest uniform — it’s worth looking at how both US and Russian spacesuits have evolved over time. Start by looking at the original suit (the Marshmallow Moon-Suit) designed for the moon mission […]
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Nasa unveils Pumpkin sun just in time for Halloween
Just in time for Halloween, NASA has posted a photo of the sun that looks like a massive flaming jack-o’-lantern. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory shot the photo earlier this month. The fiery slits in the image reveal the most active parts of the sun. Writes NASA: Active regions on the sun combined to look something […]