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Spaceport America

noEnigmaMonday, October 08, 2012

Spaceport America is the first spaceport in the world built-from-the-ground-up to host private enterprise, intended to be the launch-pa...

Finding a new Planet, Earthlike.

noEnigmaSunday, August 19, 2012

Finding the New Earth join astronomers in a race to find a planet that can sustain life. Amid all the space in the universe, is there an...

Mars One

noEnigmaFriday, June 15, 2012

Mars One will establish the first human settlement on Mars in 2023. A habitable settlement will be waiting for the settlers when they lan...

La Tierra como nunca has visto antes...

noEnigmaFriday, June 01, 2012

Lo que vemos en esta espectacular pieza lanzada por el científico y fotógrafo Alex Rivest son una variedad de tonalidades y colores cread...

A Orientação pelas Estrelas ( Hemisfério Sul )

noEnigmaFriday, May 11, 2012

Se estivermos no Hemisfério Sul (Brasil, Argentina, Austrália e sul da África), devemos localizar e ficar de frente para um ponto no céu...

ATREX Launch

noEnigmaSunday, March 18, 2012

In March, NASA will launch five such rockets in approximately five minutes to study these high-altitude winds and their intimate connecti...

Hubble

noEnigmaWednesday, January 11, 2012

Hubble O telescópio que nos abriu os olhos para os segredos do universo, que aumentou o nosso conhecimento em relação ao destino das g...

New planet like Earth, Kepler 22b

noEnigmaMonday, December 05, 2011

Discovered by the Kepler space mission, the new planet, dubbed Kepler-22b, is the first world smaller than Neptune to be found in middle ...

ERS-2, a história de um satélite

noEnigmaFriday, September 23, 2011

Na vida tudo tem um fim. E nem os satélites escapam a este axioma. O ERS-2 ( European Remote Sensing - 2 ), terminou a sua vida operac...

Asteroid Attack

noEnigmaMonday, September 19, 2011

( Via The Guardian ) British space engineers will unveil designs today for a satellite that would rendezvous with and track Apophis, an ...

Mysteries of the Moon

noEnigmaFriday, August 19, 2011

The gravitational attraction of the Sun on the Earth's oceans is almost half that of the Moon, and their gravitational interplay is ...

Nasa Discovery, water may exist on Mars

noEnigmaThursday, August 04, 2011

This series of images shows warm-season features that might be evidence of salty liquid water active on Mars today. Evidence for that...

Biggest Things in Space

noEnigmaSaturday, July 23, 2011

We cannot compare anything on earth to the largest things known in space. The Lymann Alpha blob is a bubble-like structure containing...

Unveiling the Universe

noEnigmaThursday, July 21, 2011

The Herschel Space Telescope. Over 1.5 million kilometres from earth the Herschel Space Telescope has been observing the universe for ...

Massive Solar Eruption

noEnigmaSaturday, July 16, 2011

Solar Eruption On June 7, 2011 the Sun unleashed an M-2 (medium-sized) solar flare with a spectacular coronal mass ejection (CME). ...

First Orbit

noEnigmaThursday, June 02, 2011

A real time recreation of Yuri Gagarin's pioneering first orbit, shot entirely in space from on board the International Space Station. T...

The Speed of light

noEnigmaThursday, May 05, 2011

The speed of light, usually denoted by c, is a physical constant important in many areas of physics. Its value in vacuo (in a vacuum...

Voyager, the adventure continues

noEnigmaSaturday, April 30, 2011

More than 30 years after they left Earth, NASA's twin Voyager probes are now at the edge of the solar system. Not only that, they...

Another Earth

noEnigmaSaturday, April 16, 2011

Imagine if all of a sudden things in space shifted slightly and we discovered another planet that was just like ours. How would we re...

Mars, The New Evidence

noEnigmaSunday, April 10, 2011

Would that incremental approach make sense (technical, economic, political) as it did for the Apollo program to the Moon? Would the f...