- Venus Approaching The Sun
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For the second and last time this century, the planet Venus will pass over the visible disk of our Sun for observers located in the Americas (in the evening of June 5th) and western Europe (in the morning of June 6th). The event has a noteworthy scientifi ...
Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jun 5 2012 - 9:23am - 0 attachments
- Interplanetary Colonization: I Don't Think So
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Periodically it seems that the subject comes up regarding human colonization of space and then all manner of problems and difficulties are discussed with various people taking their respective sides on the physics that's possible and what isn't. Howeve ...
Article - Gerhard Adam - Apr 6 2012 - 4:51pm - 0 attachments
- Oxygen Detected On Saturn's Moon, Dione
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... on a moon with sub-surface water, such as Jupiter's moon Europa, molecular oxygen could combine with carbon in subsurface lakes to form the building blocks of life. Future missions to Europa could help unravel questions about that moon's habitability. Two ...
Article - News Staff - Mar 5 2012 - 5:45pm - 0 attachments
- Why Life Is Left-Handed: Amino Acids From Space, Says Astrobiologist
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... of Mars, or in potential oceans under the icy crust of Europa and Enceladus, or on Titan." The research was funded by the NASA ...
Article - News Staff - Mar 17 2009 - 9:15pm - 0 attachments
- MEDIEVAL MEDICINE
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... Sourcebook La Medicina Medievale (Europa) [in Italian] - Accademia Jaufre' Rudel (IT) ...
Article - Camillo Di Cicco - Mar 6 2010 - 12:44pm - 0 attachments
- Continental Drift - What Earth Will Look Like In 120 Million Years
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It wasn't always the case that people believed in continental drift, German geologist and meteorologist Alfred Wegener's(1) theory that parts of the Earth's crust slowly drift atop a liquid core. He believed 200 million years ago there was once a giga ...
Article - News Staff - Jan 25 2009 - 12:32pm - 0 attachments
- Let's Clear Up A Few Things About Geomagnetism
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... but it needn't be the only way. The fields of Europa and Callisto are produced by induction within Jupiter's magnetic field. ...
Article - Oliver Knevitt - Jun 23 2011 - 5:10am - 0 attachments
- Extraterrestrials: A Dime A Dozen
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Last Monday Stephen Hawking gave a lecture at the George Washington University for the 50th anniversary of NASA. There he discussed the chance of a contact between our civilization and an extraterrestrial one. And he warned about the risks we may be f ...
Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Apr 26 2010 - 11:07am - 0 attachments
- What A Difference An Editor Makes
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... rotazione della Terra e viene rilevato, unico in Europa, nei laboratori del Gran Sasso presso L'Aquila a circa 800 chilometri ...
Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Mar 29 2011 - 4:19am - 0 attachments
- NASA's to-do list is a decade long
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... igneous ones), an in-depth exploration of Jupiter's moon Europa (apparently Voyager and Galileo were slackers and left too many ...
Blog Post - Becky Jungbauer - Mar 8 2011 - 8:59am - 0 attachments