Australia is an exotic land filled with unique wildlife and landmarks, from kangaroos to koalas – you won’t want to leave once you hear these fun facts! Get ready for an incredible journey by packing your bags now. Many visitors travel to Australia for its beaches, summer vibes and mouth-watering food; but did you know […]
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Mark Watt works by day as a Spacecraft Guidance, Navigation and Control Systems Engineer on European Space Agency missions like LISA Pathfinder; but by night he’s created one of the most intuitively creative music applications ever: Spacecraft Granular Synth. Now available as a desktop VST, this instrument features MIDI/MPE support and live sampling for further
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Sky color is determined by gas molecules in our atmosphere, predominantly nitrogen and oxygen molecules, that scatter light in all directions, with blue wavelengths being dispersed more strongly than red ones. Rayleigh scattering is the name given to this process of light dispersion through atmospheric diffusion, making sunlight appear redder nearer the horizon (for example
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NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft was successfully placed into interplanetary transfer orbit using SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. This marks humanity’s inaugural test of planetary defense to see whether intentionally colliding into an asteroid can alter its path. Falcon 9 successfully launched Badr 8, an Arabsat communications satellite based in Saudi Arabia from Cape
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Tigers are creatures with many fascinating facts and features, including using urine to mark their territories and saliva as antiseptic treatment, using facial expressions and scent markings to communicate among themselves and each other. Siberian tigers are one of the world’s largest cat species, yet are endangered. There are ways we can help save them
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Scientists have long searched Mars for signs of liquid water, including signs like mysterious dark streaks on its surface and signs like hydrated minerals that indicate their existence. According to this new study, between 30-99% of Earth’s original water has become trapped within special rocks known as hydrous minerals; any remaining amounts either escaped into
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Butterflies are one of the favorite insects among children, as they’re easy to raise, have an intriguing life cycle and provide endless entertainment in nature. At the outset of their life cycle, butterfly females lay eggs on leaves which are then fertilized by male sperm and become part of the monarch butterfly life cycle. The
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Galileo, named after Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei, taught us much about Jupiter and its moons. Launching into space with a Titan IV rocket, its speed increased when passing Venus and Earth; eventually reaching Jupiter in 1995. Galileo made numerous remarkable discoveries during its two years orbiting Jupiter, including lava flows on Io and evidence for
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On 14 July 2015, New Horizons made an epic journey through Pluto’s system and returned spectacular images showing an icy world with towering water-ice mountains and vast plains of frozen nitrogen. From concept to launch day – and multiple nearly cancelled attempts along the way – took a difficult 17 years. How does it work?
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