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A gorgeous visualization of the seasonal changes in land cover throughout the northern hemisphere via John Nelson (hat tip, io9.com) Here’s a view looking at one year of seasonal transformations on Earth. Made possible by the tremendous folks of the NASA Visible…
Best Spots to View a Cape Canaveral Launch Viewing a space rocket launch is a sight never to be forgotten any human should watch at least once in their lifetimes. The launch pads of Cape Canaveral Air Force Station are located next…
? Google and NASA’s Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab – YouTube. What is Quantum Computing? According to this Google Video Clip, it is computing that relies on the idea that there are multiple universes in which things can exist simultaneously, thus, we can…
Neil Armstrong died on August 25 of heart failure following surgery. A former military pilot, he landed the moon landing module with only 16 seconds of fuel left. A Purdue undergraduate student (as was the last man on the moon, ) and…
Mars Rover Curiosity has landed at 4.59S / 137.44 E coordinates, in Gale crater, not far from a ridge, on a smooth flat plain. It landed just like it was expected within an elipsis just a few kilometers wide. This photograph released…
Although Greenland, just like most of the northern hemisphere has been under a succession of record breaking head domes, the recently reported news that most of the Greenland ice sheet is melting needs to be taken with a grain of salt. The NASA data…
Little did @stefmara Twitter user and Neil Monday know that their pictures and videos of the space shuttle Discovery launch from Kennedy Space center, which they captured on their Iphones while flying from Orlando, will make world wide news. Here it’s one…
Of the many billions of stars that surround us, only some are orbited by planets. Of those that have planets, only some can support life. Of those planets that can support life, only some are close enough to their star not to…
Image by NASA Goddard Photo and Video via Flickr The end of a planet captured by Hubble… The hottest known planet in the Milky Way galaxy may also be its shortest-lived world. The doomed planet is being eaten by its parent star,…
The New York Times returns to the site of the first future commercial spaceport and finds a project that is very much alive despite economic woes throughout the world: Past a ranch that used to be a stage stop on an ancient…