Earlier this year, pundits were calling Vladimir Putin a strategic genius for his bloodless seizure of the Crimea and bloody destabilization of the Ukraine. Today, with oil prices dropping and the Russian economy collapsing under the weight of lower commodity prices and financial sanctions, Mr. Putin doesn’t appear so smart. More and more it looks […]
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Echoes from the past, active moon volcanoes from the time of the dinosaurs
Recent observations prove that volcanoes were still active on satellite images around 100 million years ago. Since the 1970s and the American Apollo lunar missions, we know that satellites were still shaking regularly. Small formations were discovered in flyovers manned by Apollo 15. Such formations have been since interpreted as the trace of a small […]
Mission Mars – Mission Improbable ?
A manned spaceflight to the planet Mars would have to overcome many obstacles- apart from the financial costs. The cosmic radiation that would penetrate the astronauts cannot be shielded off sufficiently.It might cause cancer and/or weaken the immune system. The weightlessness would weaken the bodies´ bones, including the bone marrow which produces the blood cells, […]
NASA finds ‘Hand of God’ in space
An image dubbed as the “Hand of God” generated by a telescope overseen by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has captured the imagination of astronomers and space explorers. The captured image is actually a cloud of material ejected by an exploded star. Reportedly, NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) recently captured the image, […]