Science
29 April: asteroid 52768 expected to pass through the Earth
As announced by NASA, on April 29th an asteroid the size of Everest will pass about 6 million kilometers from Earth: it will be visible even to the naked eye.
Giovanni Sapere
nasa
Chemistry & Metallurgy
DASS patents a method to exploit resources on Mars
The project registred by the Aerospace District of Sardinia allows to use the components present in the soil and air of Mars to build and generate edible biomass After China, Europe, Japan, Russia and the USA, India has also approved the granting of the patent on the process to ensure the survival…
Mario Vincenzo La Rocca
Science
NASA: “Asteroid will pass close to Earth on April 29th and be visible to the naked eye.”
NASA has announced that on April 29th an asteroid the size of Everest will pass about 6 million kilometers from Earth: it will be visible to the naked eye from the balcony of the house.
Giovanni Sapere
IT
Coronavirus: Nasa provides supercomputer SGI Altix
NASA has made available to researchers the SGI Altix supercomputer “Kalpana”: it will be used to study, analyze and process the data collected on the Coronavirus.
Giovanni Sapere
News
$160,000 cash prize awarded by Nasa Tournament Lab in the tiny bot challenge
$160,000 cash prize awarded by Nasa Tournament Lab in the tiny bot challenge. NASA’s new lunar exploration program is the Artemis Program.
Giovanni Sapere
News
Mission accomplished for Luca Parmitano: he has returned to Earth
Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano returned to Earth after 201 days spent on the ISS, the International Space Station that orbits at an altitude of 498 kilometers.
Giovanni Sapere
Science
Dragon 2 passes the last flight test: space gets closer!
The final test of the Crew Dragon spacecraft, the “space taxi” of the SpaceX agency of Elon Musk, has been successfully completed.
Giovanni Sapere
Eureka!
Bridgette Veneris: at the age of 10 invents a smart and eco-friendly dispenser for plasters
At just 10 years of age and after defeating leukemia, Australian Bridgette Veneris invented a smart and eco-friendly dispenser that facilitates the application of plasters.
Giovanni Sapere
Electricity
Data connection Earth – Moon: NASA and MIT at work
NASA and MIT are experimenting with a connection between the Earth and the Moon to transmit data at a rate of almost 20 megabits per second.
Giovanni Sapere
News
New discovery of NASA in space: look at the images
Published a photo on the NASA website showing the image of a cosmic grouping with characteristics and shapes completely irregular from those observed so far
Giovanni Sapere
Motors
The first flight of Stratolaunch, the largest aircraft-carrier in the world
Created by Scaled Composites, it will be used to release artificial satellites into the stratosphere, one step from space
Giovanni Sapere
News
April 17, 2014, Nasa announces the discovery of the exoplanet Kepler186f
Imagine luxurious forests, rivers of fresh water, immense seas. And maybe life. No, we are not talking about the Earth, but of a distant cousin: Kepler 186f, the first exoplanet in the habitable zone of a star discovered exactly 5 years ago, on April 17, 2014.
Giovanni Sapere
News
Published the first “photo” of a black hole: Einstein was right
It was theorised, it was imagined, and even that insane visionary of Christopher Nolan had decided to reproduce it as faithfully as possible-always according to the thesis of the astrophysicists-in his “Interstellar”. But a black hole had never been able to get a real picture of it. From 15 hours,…
Giovanni Sapere
News
RoboSimian: The help comes from artificial arms
Performing emergency operations in the event of accidents or catastrophes is always a big problem, as has been shown following the Fukushima nuclear disaster, for example.
Giovanni Sapere
News
Methane on Mars, the confirmation of an all-Italian team
It’s official: One day our cars could be powered by non-terrestrial methane. Yes, because the news of the last days coming from an Italian working group is precisely this: the presence of methane on Mars.
Giovanni Sapere