‘Space Exploration’ Category

Rosetta on its way to a comet: Fly-By

Esa’s cool project Rosetta will be landing on a comet and orbiting it in 2014. The comet, called 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (these Russians…) will be gradually getting closer to the sun. The spacecraft will study the composition of the comet’s tail, and will land a little module called Philae on the the comet’s surface. Communicating by radio […]

Posted by Astronomy on November 14th, 2007

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The Space Shuttle’s Best

The pictures you can see now, I think, shows the human race at the top of its knowledge and intelligence, even though we’re less than nothing compared to the universe as a whole. As a human being (no I’m not a pigeon), I feel pretty impressed when I view these space shuttle pics, and you […]

Posted by Astronomy on November 9th, 2007

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Cassini Mission… Already 10 Years

Cassini celebrated its 10th year in space on Monday 15th of October 2007. This mission is often thought as being revolutionary because of all it’s different discoveries concerning Saturn and its moons. It also, if you will recall, the little probe Huyghens which landed on Saturn’s largest moon in 2005.
The Probes rode off into space […]

Posted by Astronomy on October 14th, 2007

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