Possibilities of Life on Io and Europa Jupiter ’s moons have always been a slight mystery to the people of Earth; lately it has become an even bigger topic of interest. Ever since we sent a probe to Jupiter and it explored the moons‚ Io and Europa. Both of these moons have possible means for life. These two moons were discovered on January 10‚ 1610 by Galileo Galilei. One night when he was star gazing‚ he looked at Jupiter and saw four little stars around it. These little stars turned out
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is really as it seems to us and all things are subjective to the observer. Everything is relative to each person from the viewpoint. Comparative readings‚ of two almost unimaginably accurate precision atomic clocks located on fast moving spacecraft and airplanes and on earth‚ have detected this strange skewing of time and proved Einstein’s theory of relativity to be fact. Stop all the clocks in the universe and movement will continue unaffected. Stop all movement and the illusion we
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was seven men on the Mercury spacecraft. The first thing that John Glenn did that went down into history was‚ he was the first American to ever orbit the Earth. At that time two Americans had already been sent into space but none of them had orbited the Earth. The “Mercury Seven” launched on February 20‚ 1962. John Glenn renamed the group of astronauts to “Friendship 7”. They orbited the Earth 3 times. It took them about five hours‚ and it proved that the spacecraft was successful‚ and it helped
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Space Radiation Too Deadly For Mars Mission by Charles Q. Choi‚ Special to SPACE.com Date: 31 March 2008 Time: 10:00 AM ET Dangerous levels of radiation in space could bar astronauts from a mission to Mars and limit prolonged activity on the moon‚ experts now caution.However‚ more research could reveal ways to handle the risks that radiation poses to space missions.The magnetic field of Earth protects humanity from radiation in space that can damage or kill cells. Once beyond this shield‚ people
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"The Mission" New Horizons: Shedding Light on Frontier Worlds. The John Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/mission.html (2001‚ 2003-Oct-28) This is a link off the NASA webpage. It is the lab that is designing the spacecraft. 6. Pictures on pg 3- from Jewitt‚ David‚ "Kuiper Belt." www.ifa.hawaii.edu/faculty/jewitt/kb.html 7. Pictures on pg 4- from Jewitt‚ David‚ "Kuiper Belt." www.ifa.hawaii.edu/faculty/jewitt/kb.html
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cases of salmonella dropped rapidly (Dunbar). NASA inspired innovations and philosophies that may have never been established if not for the influence of the Space Age. On July 20‚ 1969‚ America achieved its long sought victory of landing a manned spacecraft on the moon (“Time Line”). “Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first men to walk on the moon while crewmate Michael Collins orbits around the moon alone.” (“Time Line”). This final victory allowed the United States to overall win and end
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unidentified flying objects (UFOs) are alien spacecrafts. (Williams) Many people who see these flying objects are interviewed or their experience is reported. These objects are very high-tech and unique shapes‚ such as spheres‚ triangles‚ and many are said to be moving at ridiculous speeds. Also‚ many of these objects were caught on camera but many believe that those images are fake or man-made. Some of these pictures were taken and many did not see the spacecraft until they developed their pictures
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The Roman empire developed much later than the Greek empire thus the Romans copied almost everything that the Greeks had developed over time‚ such as art‚ literature and Gods. However the Romans did give some of their Gods different names and duties than those of the Greek Gods. There are other differences‚ which is shown between the Greek Goddess Artemis and the Roman Goddess Diana. These two Goddesses are very similar‚ however some differences are apparent. The Greek Goddess Artemis is compared
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Apollo Moon Landing While the controversy regarding the Apollo 11 Moon landing of 1969‚ isn’t as a discussed a topic‚ like child abuse‚ it is an important part of American history and is vital‚ concerning achievements in space exploration. Many people are skeptical of the moon landings validity‚ but the facts point to only one conclusion‚ the Apollo Moon Landing was real. The common theory is that the moon landing was filmed on some secret Hollywood sound stage. Now‚ here are some of the reasons
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ACHIEVEMENTS OF INDIA IN SPACE RESEARCH (1960-1970) The Indian space program began establishing itself with the launch of sounding rockets‚ which was complimented by India’s geographical proximity to the equator. These were launched from the newly-established ThumbaEquatorial Rocket Launching Station (TERLS) ‚ built near Thiruvananthapuram in southern Kerala. Initially‚ American sounding rockets like the Nike-Apache‚ and French sounding rockets like the Centaure‚ were fired and used for studying
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