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Spectacular Views of Saturn and Titan
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- Published: Sunday, February 08 2015 19:38
popsugar.com - iPhone cameras are good — but they aren't as good as this. NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured this view as it approached Saturn in early 2011. The GIF is so beautiful that it's bubbled back up to the front page of Reddit today!
In November 2014, the spacecraft caught another spectacular moment, this on Saturn's largest moon, Titan, using a visual and infrared mapping spectrometer.
Geopolymers - How the pyramids where built in Egypt
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- Published: Saturday, February 07 2015 03:40
geopolymer.org - Are the pyramids made out of concrete and artificial re-agglomerated limestone? Joseph Davidovits and the Geopolymer Institute crew shows that with only a few people, they are able to rapidly and easily produce several tons of pyramid stone blocks.
Cereously - What is That Mysterious White Spot on Ceres?
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- Published: Tuesday, January 27 2015 06:46
Discovery News - A strange, flickering white blotch found on the dwarf planet Ceres by a NASA spacecraft has scientists scratching their heads.
The white spot on Ceres in a series of new photos taken on Jan. 13 by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, which is rapidly approaching the round dwarf planet in the asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. But when the initial photo release on Monday (Jan. 19), the Dawn scientists gave no indication of what the white dot might be.
Scientist Sees Possible Signs Of Ancient Life On Mars In Rover Photos
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- Published: Monday, January 26 2015 04:24
Huffington Post - Evidence that Mars once harbored alien life continues to mount.
Just weeks after NASA's Curiosity rover detected spikes of methane in the Martian atmosphere--possible evidence of biological activity--a prominent geobiologist says she sees possible signs of past life in photos of the Martian landscape taken by the rover.
Civilization designer Sid Meier announces new Starships strategy game
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- Published: Tuesday, January 20 2015 05:15
theverge.com - Sid Meier is heading back to outer space. Following the release of last year's Civilization: Beyond Earth, the famed designer has announced his Firaxis studio is working on another sci-fi strategy game called Sid Meier's Starships. While Beyond Earth focused on what would happen when humans first left earth and started colonizing planets, Starships is set much farther in the future.
Beagle 2 found 12 years after disappearing on Mars
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- Published: Sunday, January 18 2015 04:55
theverge.com - The Beagle 2 Mars lander, lost more than a decade ago after its launch by the European Space Agency (ESA), has been spotted on the surface of the red planet. New images from the HiRise camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) show that the coffee-table sized lander — which was designed to unfold "like a giant fob watch" — made it safely to the surface of the planet, but did not fully deploy.
Trans-Neptunian objects suggest that there are more planets in the solar system
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- Published: Sunday, January 18 2015 01:31
phys.org - There could be at least two unknown planets hidden well beyond Pluto, whose gravitational influence determines the orbits and strange distribution of objects observed beyond Neptune. This has been revealed by numerical calculations made by researchers at the Complutense University of Madrid and the University of Cambridge. If confirmed, this hypothesis would revolutionise solar system models.
The CPU from the original PlayStation is guiding a probe to Pluto
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- Published: Saturday, January 17 2015 23:43
theverge.com - You probably already know that your smartphone is more powerful than the computers used to land astronauts on the Moon. But did you know that the processor used in the original Sony PlayStation is currently guiding a space probe the size of a grand piano towards Pluto?
Archeologists discover mythical Tomb of Osiris in Egypt
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- Published: Monday, January 05 2015 02:06
SPLOID - Archeologists have discovered an ancient tomb modeled after the mythical Tomb of Osiris as described by Egyptian lore in the necropolis of Sheikh Abd el-Qurna, on the West Bank at Thebes. The complex includes a shaft that connects to multiple chambers, including one with demons holding knives.
NASA’s Dawn Spacecraft Begins Approach to Dwarf Planet Ceres
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- Published: Monday, January 05 2015 01:36
VOA News - NASA’s Dawn spacecraft is getting set for the final segment of its planned ten-year mission after entering the approach phase of its visit to the dwarf planet Ceres.
This dwarf planet, with an average diameter of 950 kilometers, is the largest object in the asteroid belt, a region of space located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter filled with debris of all sizes left over from the creation of the solar system.
Tacoma professor tackles mystery of ancient, Antikythera device
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- Published: Friday, January 02 2015 05:12
Seattle Times - The shoebox-sized chunk of bronze didn’t attract much attention when divers retrieved it from an ancient shipwreck off the Greek island of Antikythera in 1901. Archaeologists on the expedition had their hands full with far more impressive finds, including life-size statues of warriors and horses, delicate glass bowls and scores of ceramic vessels called amphorae.
Comet Henge and the Comet Song - Comet Catcher Rosetta Catches Comet Henge on Comet 67P
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- Published: Sunday, December 14 2014 03:20
CivRadio - Almost immediately, Rosetta started sending back closeup highly detailed photos of Comet 67P. Soon after, space enthusiasts began to see strange and interesting anamolies. But what is strange for a comet? Its hard to say because Rosetta is a historic mission and its images of Comet 67P are the closest, most detailed shots of a comet the world has ever seen.
Monolithomania - The Mars and Phobos Monoliths Revisited
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- Published: Monday, December 01 2014 23:59
CivRadio - Sagan, Kubrick, Aldrin, Oh My! The only thing missing from this story now is Kevin Bacon! What's all the Buzz about!? The Mars and Phobos Monoliths may be old news to some, but for me it was something I hadn't looked into too much until recently. After seeing a bizarre C-SPAN clip featuring Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin talking about a monolith on the moon of Mars, my interest was piqued again.
Archaeologists Discover The World's Largest Ancient Stone Block
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- Published: Saturday, November 29 2014 01:58
Archaeology News Network - In the summer of 2014 the Oriental Department of the German Archaeological Institute conducted excavations in the stone quarry of Baalbek/Ancient Heliopolis, in Lebanon. There lies the monolith “Hajjar al-Hibla” (Stone of the Pregnant Woman). Below the “Hajjar al-Hibla” and directly beside of it, there is another megalithic stone block, even bigger than the first one: it measures .....
Marnomalous - Mars Curiosity Rover - Marnomalies Galore
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- Published: Sunday, November 16 2014 19:41
CivRadio - Mars enthusiasts, truth seekers, Youtubers, and news sites alike continue to point out strange anomalies (or "Marnomalies") seen in the raw images sent back by Curiosity's MastCam. People are seeing more than just piles of rocks when viewing these images. The anomalies being highlighted are as diverse as those pointing them out. The list of things people are seeing include ....
Mystery signal from Rosetta comet confirmed by European Space Agency
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- Published: Wednesday, November 12 2014 07:53
examiner.com - The European Space Agency (ESA) today confirmed that it was receiving a mysterious signal from Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. In a post on its live streaming website, it described the signal as a “mystery song” and uploaded a recording with the caption: “Hear our comet sing.” The confirmation follows months of rumors
The Pharaoh's Pump - How the Great Pyramid was built
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- Published: Tuesday, November 11 2014 07:23
thepump.org - Based on the research of the Pharaoh's Pump Foundation the Great Pyramid was not built using a large ramp. The Great Pyramid was built in a very different manner!
The Original Builders used water locks from the Nile River up to the building site to bring stones on barges up to where the Great Pyramid was built. This system used by the Original Builders is simple but very sophisticated.
