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Moon countdown: Hours until 1st NASA probe arrives
LOS ANGELES (AP) — NASA is counting down the seconds until its twin spacecraft bound for the moon make back-to-back arrivals over the New Year’s weekend.
The washing machine-size probes have been cruising independently toward their destination since launching in September aboard the same rocket on a mission to measure lunar gravity.
Approaching the moon from the south pole, the Grail...
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maiamorgan asked: You are posting some of the awesomeness of the universe. Everything is beautiful and nothing hurts! ♥
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NewsFlash: NASA's Twin Spacecraft 24 Hrs from...
NASA’s Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL)-A spacecraft is within 24 hours of its insertion burn that will place it into lunar orbit. At the time the spacecraft crossed the milestone at 1:21 p.m. PST today (4:21 p.m. EST), the spacecraft was 30,758 miles (49,500 kilometers) from the moon.
Continue reading “NewsFlash: NASA’s Twin Spacecraft 24 Hrs from Lunar...
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Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I’m just someone who is in love with the universe. And as Carl Sagan said, “when...
– Neil DeGrasse Tyson
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The same thing will happen with a wormhole, only with radiation instead of...
– Stephen Hawking (Into The Universe Ep. 2: Time Travel)
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Science increases our power in proportion as it lowers our pride.
– Claude Bernard (1813-1878)
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2011 Review: The Year In Physics
15:00 30 December 2011 by Maggie McKee and Celeste Biever
No year in recent memory has had as much jaw-dropping physics news as 2011. From neutrinos that might move faster than light to hints of the Higgs boson, the last undiscovered particle in the standard model, physics stories stole the limelight this year. We’ve chosen 10 stories we felt were...
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