Category: Space
Phobos program was an unmanned space mission consisting of two probes launched by the Soviet Union to study Mars and its moons Phobos and Deimos. Only one of the probes made it to Mars, and just days before…
This very fluid-looking collection of barchans is accompanied by a wind-blown ridge in the Hellespontus region of Mars but… Barchan dunes betray the prevailing wind direction. In this case, the prevailing wind is traveling from bottom right to top left;…
Bright Lights Strange lights and moving shadows have been seen on the moon by astronomers so often that NASA has even published a catalog of them. From the year 1540 to 1967, NASA lists over 570 strange moon events in…
NASA images – can that really be a pyramid ? The shadow stretches far to the left giving an incredible sense of dimension and shape to the Pyramid. A stunning simple image that seems to portray an anomalous…
April 12, 1961, is a day that went down in history. Soviet Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin left the atmosphere of the Earth and broke the barrier into outer space. His entire journey was only 108 minutes long, but Gagarin’s feat was…
How did the moon get magnetic rocks? One of the Moon’s most enduring mysteries is the lack of its magnetic field—which proved to be a real problem when the moon rocks the Astronauts brought back in the 1960s and 1970s…
When NASA launched their IMAGE satellite back in 2000, they were expecting the $150 million craft to have a long career of service as it photographed and studied the Earth’s surrounding magnetosphere. But that career was cut short in 2005,…
The Hubble space telescope has unravelled the mystery of a strange asteroid which had also been classified as a comet – and which had puzzled astronomers. Hubble was used to image the asteroid, designated 2006 VW139, in September 2016 –…
we’ve found more and more planets outside the solar system in recent years — more than 2,000 candidates in all — a strange new class of world has emerged. These are ones that appear to be flying all alone in…
The strange ring, which has been branded an eroded rock formation by sceptics, was found in NASA images taken by the Curiosity Rover droid which is exploring the Martian surface taking samples and pictures. When scaled correctly, the mysterious stone…
There might be alien life in our own solar system, NASA has announced. All of the necessary things to support life have been found on one of the moons that orbits Saturn. Enceladus has chemicals that when found on Earth…
ALIEN life in our solar system is one step closer to being discovered as NASA scientists discovered “warm” oceans on a moon of Saturn. NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has revealed evidence of heat close to the surface of the moon Enceladus.…
