Mystery Of Voyager Spacecraft
Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009 Posted in Nasa, News, Planets, Space | No Comments »With a new 3D-model for energy simulation scientists from Bochum and Huntsville, USA, are studying the 'physical mystery' of the Voyager spacecraft. Over 30 years ago the spacecraft detected particles in solar wind which were 'hotter' than they should have ...
The source of the meteorites
Sunday, July 13th, 2008 Posted in News, Planets, Space, Stuff | 2 Comments »They were ejected from their asteroidal “parent body” after a collision, were injected into a new orbit, and they finally felt onto the Earth. Meteorites are a major tool for knowing the history of the solar system because their composition ...
Asteroid Impacts On Earth
Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 Posted in News, Planets, Space, Stuff | No Comments »A century ago this week, an event in far-off Siberia rang a cosmic wake-up call for Earth. That explosive event over remote Tunguska is generally viewed by scientists as a large space rock that pierced through the atmosphere of Siberia, ...
Volcanic Activity on Mercury
Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 Posted in News, Planets, Space, Stuff | No Comments »In 1975, the Mariner 10 spacecraft returned intriguing images that showed smooth plains covering large swaths of Mercury's surface. But scientists could not determine whether the plains had been created by volcanic activity or by material ejected from below the ...
