As part of NASA's exploration agenda, the 'Tropi' project -- if successful -- will provide as a food source and as oxygen producers on long-range trips to Mars.
Archive - June 2006
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A huge asteroid is hurtling toward Earth! But, there is a hope as astronomers expect it to miss the planet narrowly. The space rock -- discovered in December 2004 -- is called 2004 XP14. It will pass the earth by a little more than the average distance.
Discovery is ready to take off for the first space shuttle flight in nearly a year. But, the clouds in the forecast raised doubts if it can lift-off the launch pad this weekend.
The clouds capable of producing lightning provide a 60 percent chance of...
Some asteroids are dangerous for the earth. It can damage a city by a single strike. A new telescope has been designed for spotting such potentially dangerous asteroids. Already taken its first test images, the telescope will be able to find space...
At least 14 American crew members have developed kidney stones in the last 5 years! While in space, the zero-gravity environment lead the astronauts to losing bone calcium and muscle strength. And, this calcium can end up in their kidneys, risking them.
It whirls in the atmosphere above Venus' South Pole - it is an amazingly bizarre double vortex, found by a new mission to the planet. Thanks to the unmanned Venus Express spacecraft for spotting this amazing phenomenon in the planet.
Winds of...
Humans can even aspire to grow crops and manage a garden in space! Can we grow food in microgravity? To satiate this intrusiveness, the space shuttle Discovery scheduled to launch July 1, will carry the research of Miami University professor John Kiss..
Food and equipments have reached the International Space Station successfully. According to the Russian space agency, an unmanned Russian Progress M-57 cargo vessel that was carrying two and a half tonnes of food, water, fuel and scientific...
The Hubble Space Telescope is aging with its reputed history of producing unparalleled views of distant galaxies and infant stars. With its increasing years of service, one of the main cameras has stopped working.
One of the three cameras in Advanced.
After 1978, when Pluto is discovered to be accompanied by its moon Charon, it is in May 2005, astronomers discovered two more moons of the planet, which is about two to three times as far from the ninth planet in the solar system as its large moon....
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