Friday, August 31, 2012

Curiosity Mission in Pictures, Part 1: The Build

NASA's new rover "Curiosity" will take Mars exploration to an entirely new level of discovery, with state of the art advanced payload of scientific equipment to even a whole new landing tactics, crawling the red planet surface searching for potential habitat of "life" and the ability of the planet to have human beings living on the surface, there is no doubt the car sized rover promises a strong push to humanity's expectations.


Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Mars dust twister cleaning surface

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which has been circling the Red Planet since 2006, captured some martian spring cleaning February 16 in the Amazonis Planitia region on the northern part of the planet.


Rectangular Galaxies, a new type or just an optical illusion

Is there new types of galaxies that's not discovered yet? of course there are, the universe is a massive playground, but what about this one. According to a May 10 paper in The Astrophysical Journal, astronomers have found a "rectangular-looking" galaxy some 68 million light-years away in Eridanus the River.