Problems with an engine of Artemis 1. Parmitano, historical mission. It begins with a stumbling block, the path that should bring humanity back to the moon almost 50 years after the last Apollo mission. Unexpected technical problems with a rocket engine forced NASA to postpone the launch of the highly anticipated Artemis 1 mission, the unmanned … Read more
It will take place on 27 September at 01.14 Italian times, at 24 thousand kilometers per hour. The impact of NASA’s Dart mission, the first of its kind, with the asteroid Dimorphos is only a month away: on 27 September, at 1.14 am Italian time, it will crash into the asteroid at about 24 thousand … Read more
The launch is scheduled for August 29th. Concern about the weather. The countdown has begun for Artemis 1, the unmanned mission symbol of the return to the Moon. The counter was triggered in the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, where the launch is scheduled at 2.33 pm Italian on 29 August. Opening the way to … Read more
The new map of water on Mars is ready, shedding new light on the past of the red planet: water has in fact shaped its geology in a much more important and extensive way than previously thought. This is confirmed by two studies published in the journal Icarus and led by the French University of Paris-Saclay and the Japanese Space Agency (Jaxa). The results also … Read more
Final preparations for the launch of Artemis 1, the first mission of the space program that aims to bring man back to the moon. In view of the start of the countdown from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, procedures have begun to close the Orion capsule, integrated on top of the gigantic 98-meter Space Launch System … Read more
Using electrons as projectiles to produce oxygen on Mars in higher quantities than those obtained in April 2021 with the Moxie experiment (Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment), aboard NASA’s Perseverance rover. This is demonstrated by the technique tested on Earth and based on the use of plasma, which is the state of matter that contains electrically … Read more
Surprising details of Jupiter emerge from the new ultra-sharp images captured by the James Webb space telescope of NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA), and Canadian (CSA): in the ‘foreground’ of the giant planet. The images were captured on July 27th thanks to the three infrared filters of the Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) and were then … Read more
More and more leading names in the tech world are investing in the sector in the hope of obtaining clean and unlimited energy The gas price crisis and the specter of an interruption in supplies from Russia have prompted the European Union to pay much more attention than usual to energy security, and consequently to re-evaluate … Read more
strangest phobias: -Specific fears are irrational and related to objects, situations, activities, animals, or people. Some are common, such as fear of spiders or snakes, others truly absurd.Here are some of them Fear , stress and anxiety are common emotions in anyone’s life. If they occur in everyday contexts, in the presence of harmless objects and situations, and with paralyzing intensity, however, … Read more
The houses of the future? yes, you heard it right. Myco-architecture exploits the mycelium, i.e. the roots of porcini & co, to create natural and sustainable materials for floors and walls Living in a mushroom house is no longer a Smurf thing. Myco-architecture, which deals with developing materials using mycelium (the root network of mushrooms), is already a reality. And … Read more