NASA’s Success Opportunity, a rover that has been exploring Mars from January 2004 until June 2018, approximately a total of 14 years. The golf cart sized rover had made some of the biggest discoveries in science as well as influential information to our world. She lived up to the title of being the longest running…
We all know that in our math and physics classes 3.14 is a sufficient substitute for pi. But how much error does this method produce? What does NASA use for their calculations? According to the chief engineer for NASA’s Dawn Mission Marc Rayman, pi to the fifteenth decimal place is sufficient enough for all calculations…
For thousands of years, mankind has stared up into the heavens and seen the stars. Now the dream of reaching them has never been closer. To say that we should halt our operations here, when we have so much more potential, would be preposterous. The space program has achieved things that we had never seen…
Think of a time when you had the chance to realize a long-standing dream but the odds were stacked against you: this was the case for Canadian neurologist and astronaut, Roberta Bondar. Her childhood dream to be an astronaut was fulfilled in January 1992, where Bondar and six other members left Earth on NASA’s space shuttle Discovery.…
1. World’s most expensive hyphen: NASA In 1962, NASA prepared to launch the Mariner 1, America’s first interplanetary probe. The mission was meant to get a close up image of Venus. The absence of a single hyphen in the coding of this probe made the mission blast off – into pieces. The dashed mistake cost…
After disappointing many people by disclaiming Pluto as a real planet, NASA discovered a new possible planet, referred to as Planet 9. Although there has been no visible encounters with the 9th Planet, scientists say that there’s approximately a 65% chance that this planet truly exists. Planet 9 is believed to be 5,000 times larger…
In July 2015, the New Horizons Mission passed by Pluto to explore the dwarf planet and its five moons. Much too long neglected and often belittled upon, here are some of the defining moments that embody a new dawn for Pluto: 1. I’m bigger than you think 2. I have a “young surface” of mountains:…
Many of us have heard about the new phenomenon of 3D printing, which extends to plastics, guns, and even human organs. But NASA has taken the challenge and believes they can 3D print food. Not only do they believe they can reach their goal, but they believe they will be able to 3D print food…
NASA recently released an article, detailing how conditions on Mars were once suitable for ancient life, and still may be, to some extent. You can find the article here. Essentially, the article talks about how samples collected from NASA’s Curiosity rover show sulphur, nitrogen, hydrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, and carbon, which are some key ingredients for…
Travelling closer to the earth than numerous satellites and any other asteroids of the same size, Asteroid 2012 DA14 safely passed by the earth on February 15 without any point of contact. Despite, the early and accurate prediction of NASA scientists regarding the lack of threat that 2012 DA14 posted, the event still served…
With Neil Armstrong’s recent passing and the United States Presidential election happening soon, more and more people have become focused on space and the portion of the American budget NASA will receive in the future. Though NASA’s budget has been rumored to be getting decreased, what will the future be for humans and space exploration? Before the…
In the hype of the Olympics, it seems we have all neglected the monumental achievement of mankind; the Curiosity Mars Rover has landed! The Curiosity, equipped with billion dollar technology.
In 1997, Cassini was launched into far ends of the universe to discover distant planets, like Saturn. No one knew if it will work the way it was intended. The fuel, signal control, interference from other celestial bodies… there are so many things that could have gone wrong. Cassini reached Saturn in 2002 and it has…
NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) had recently finished mapping the surface of our moon. With its wide angled camera, over 4,000 images were taken over the course of a month in seven different wavelengths in different resolutions. Scientists then took the images and put them together like a puzzle and created the following map: This map uncovers…
Yes, that’s right, it’s possible that our NASA scientists have discovered a ninth planet in our solar system. It has been named “Tyche” pronounced tay-kee. The name was found from the Greek goddess of fortune, chance, providence and fate. Tyche was said to be the daughter of “Oceanus” and “Tethys” with an evil sister named “Nemesis” for her…