In 1969, more than 500 million Americans watched on TV as Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first men to set foot on the moon. Although Richard Nixon was President at that time, Lyndon Baines Johnson had advanced space exploration with great effort during his term in office. LBJ made significant investments in NASA […]
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Imagine yourself inside a spaceship accelerating with an intense burst of rocket fire before feeling weightlessness as its engine shuts off and your ship coasts onward. Ordinary people might one day experience space tourism thanks to several companies working on it – just be prepared for a hefty bill when doing so! Space Shuttle Orbiters
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South Africa is home to some of the largest land mammals on earth, the highest commercial bungee jump and one of the world’s most luxurious trains: Rovos Rail. Furthermore, South Africa features one of the longest wine routes and is the main producer of Rooibos tea. South Africa would fit snugly between Chile and Argentina
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Mercury was known to play tricks on his fellow Olympian gods, such as often playing tricks with them. To protect himself he often carried around a winged helmet created for him by Vulcan and accompanied by either a caduceus (staff with two snakes entwined into its coils), or his symbolic animal–cockerels or rams representing fertility.
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Sky blue is a light shade of blue that closely resembles that of an open sky, often used in graphic design to convey trustworthiness and stability. Furthermore, this hue can help improve cognitive skills making it suitable for educational materials as well as mood boards. Mars appears more subdued due to sunlight passing through more
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Why the sky is blue is one of the great perennial questions posed by children aged five or under, never ceasing to fascinate. Sunlight is composed of all wavelengths evenly, but on its path towards Earth’s atmosphere it becomes scattered, with blue wavelengths being dispersed more readily than other ones. Sunlight On a sunny day,
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Voyager 2’s cameras captured images and sensors gathered data as it passed over Neptune’s cold blue clouds tonight as part of its final journey across our Solar System. Neptune boasts 14 moons, such as Triton. Geysers of nitrogen erupt from its surface indicating that Triton may have originated as a free-roaming dwarf planet. Voyager 2
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Looking up at the night sky or at pictures of space can make you believe it is all black – so why is the sky blue? Answering that question involves understanding how light interacts with particles in the atmosphere. Air molecules are smaller than visible light wavelengths, so they scatter it more intensely via Rayleigh
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In contrast to earlier amphitheatres which dug into hillsides for support, the Colosseum was freestanding. Comprised of three stories surrounding an arena and eighty arches on each story; its bottom floor featured Doric and Ionic columns while its second-floor floors had Corinthian ones for additional support. Builders created the Colosseum on top of what had
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