Tigers may look like large orange pajamas, but they are actually powerful and dangerous predators. Tigers can hunt at night and patrol their territory; furthermore, their keen sense of smell allows them to use pee as an effective territorial marker. They tend to be less tolerant of heat than other big cats and will frequently…
Smithsonian X 3D will commemorate the 47th anniversary of Apollo 11 by making publicly available a high-resolution, 3-D scan of Columbia command module’s interior for visitors to view for themselves – for the first time, visitors can now peer inside this capsule that carried Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins into space. Spacecraft In 1969, humankind completed…
Mark Watt recently introduced SpaceCraft, an iOS granular synth with an inviting and simple user interface that turns any sample into an unusual musical instrument with expressive pads and arpeggiated rhythms. Slow rotation spacecraft would also enable professional crew to perform their duties without experiencing issues like space motion sickness and lower back pain that…
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe successfully touched our star for the first time ever! Flying through its upper atmosphere – known as corona – and sampling particles and magnetic fields there. Named in honor of astrophysicist Eugene Parker, this mission seeks to explore and comprehend the Sun’s mysterious corona and solar wind that circulate our closest…
The water cycle is an eternally ongoing cycle that connects all the water on Earth through evaporation, condensation and precipitation processes that play an integral part of daily life. Water is an invaluable resource, accounting for 60-75% of our bodyweight and necessary for our survival over three days without it. Furthermore, it helps regulate climate…
Since the 1960s, numerous spacecraft have whizzed past Mars or entered its orbit. Additionally, rovers and landers have touched down on its surface. As Hays watched a large flying saucer land in Utah last year, she thought of her ambitious Mars Sample Return mission – MSR for short – which involves collecting samples from Mars…
From miles of blood vessels to bone regeneration, the human body is packed with fascinating facts. To celebrate Halloween, we’ve put together this list of some of our favorite scary facts about humanity’s bodies. As an infant, you had more bones than what exists today. Over time, as you grow, some of those baby bones…
Once upon a time, Mars was an expansive, lush planet filled with canyons and lakes. But over time it cooled, its magnetic field dissipated, and streams of ionizing radiation began stripping its atmosphere away. Today it’s an inhospitable desert. MGS has observed many different kinds of PADs across many regions, which has enabled researchers to…
Challenger launched on its final journey atop its Shuttle Carrier Atmosphere (SCA), flying low over Houston and JSC as its astronauts slept during its flight. When they awoke up, MCC played “Cadets on Parade” and the Air Force Song before playing MCC songs from its archives to commemorate their accomplishments in service to America. Challenger…
