New Horizons proved an outstanding discovery vehicle despite its modest nature, yielding many fascinating findings about Pluto and its moons: Alice was used to study Pluto’s atmosphere while LORRI captured images of its surface as well as three smaller moons named Styx, Nix, and Kerberos. Now, scientists from New Horizons team and beyond are opening…
Children often ask why the sky is blue, making it one of the most challenging questions to answer without sounding too technical or scientific. Answer lies within how light travels through our atmosphere. When sunlight enters Earth’s atmosphere, its beams get scattered by gas molecules; longer wavelengths, such as red and orange hues pass more…
Spaceflight Simulator is a game that allows you to engineer, plan and complete missions. You can build your own rockets, launch them and land them on all the planets in the Solar system. Each destination is modeled accurately in terms of gravity pull and atmospheric conditions. The large solar panel formerly generated electricity and was…
