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Google and NASA teaming up to create a quantum computing lab
Quantum computing seems to be the way of the future, but right now, only a few people have access to the technology. And that’s why Google is teaming up with NASA to create a quantum computing lab, giving scientists, students and engineers the opportunity to see what they can do with it.
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posted 16 May, 2013
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NASA gets geekily creative with pop-culture-inspired expedition posters.
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posted 16 April, 2013
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NASA’s new TESS satellite is a mean little exoplanet discovering machine
The Kepler Space Telescope has been a rock star when it comes to discovering exoplanets, but NASA has an even better exoplanet discovering machine in the works named TESS, or Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, built entirely around the mission of trying to discover even more planets across the universe.
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posted 10 April, 2013
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Website of the day: Distractions in Space
Distractions in Space has a good collection of transcripts of conversations between astronauts and ground control from various Apollo missions, including this one about a turd floating through the cabin during Apollo 10.
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posted 04 April, 2013
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Jeff Bezos recovers an Apollo rocket from the bottom of the Atlantic
Amazon founder and space travel startup entrepreneur Jeff Bezos recently completed a fishing expedition in the Atlantic, where he managed to pull up an old, rusty rocket that had been sitting on the seafloor since 1969, when they were jettisoned from the rocket that took Neil Armstrong and co to the moon.
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posted 20 March, 2013
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NASA confirms that ancient microbial life once might have flourished on Mars
After analyzation of a sample of soil underneath the red dust of Mars, scientists at NASA have confirmed that parts of the red planet might once have been home to all kinds of microbial life in the shallow streams of Mars a long, long, long time ago. The sample is gray clay from what used to be a stream bed, and it’s chock full of all kinds of chemicals from a freshwater environment.
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posted 12 March, 2013
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NASA releases the first video from the depths of buried Antarctic lake
Last month, NASA showed the first photo from its expedition to the submerged Lake Whillans under the ice of Antarctica, and now here’s the video. The robot that went down into the lake is a small thing, about the size of a baseball bat, but it did what it was supposed to do and gave the world the first look at this weird, hidden world.
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posted 02 March, 2013
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Neil DeGrasse Tyson uses a coffee cup to talk about NASA’s plan to deal with killer asteroids
Don’t worry guys, NDT has this shit.
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posted 25 February, 2013
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NASA’s detailed simulation of the lunar phases
This visualization shows the moon’s phase and libration throughout the year 2013, at hourly intervals. Each frame represents one hour. In addition, this visualization also shows other relevant information, including moon orbit position, subearth and subsolar points, distance from the Earth
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posted 24 February, 2013
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What the hell is this weird, shiny object on the surface of Mars?
Curiosity has been living up to its name up there on the red planet, using its eyes and claws to look at Mars in ways we’ve never seen before. And it’s found some unusual stuff, like this metallic looking shiny object poking out of the dirt. ALIENS!
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posted 13 February, 2013
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Curiosity rover successfully drills into Martian virgin bedrock
In another outer space tech first, this past week, the Curiosity rover became the first manmade object to drill into the surface of another world when it drilled out a 2.5” deep circle of exposed bedrock on the Martian surface.
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posted 10 February, 2013
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Curiosity rover gets ready to drill down into the surface of Mars
Now that Curiosity has seen a couple sights and thoroughly tested out much of its equipment, it’s time to get down to serious business. And that serious business is drilling down into the surface of Mars to see what’s under the hood. And since this will be the first time we’ve ever actually drilled down into a rock on the surface of any planet, this could be a really big deal.
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posted 16 January, 2013
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NASA’s Curiosity rover uses its brush to wipe a section of the Martian surface clean of dust
In order to try and get a certain amount of Martian soil samples as dust free as possible, Curiosity is equipped with a wire brush that scrubs red dust from rocks to get a better look at what’s underneath. A couple days ago, Curiosity tried its brush for the first time on a section of flat rock, and this is what that rock looks like under the red Martian soil.
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posted 08 January, 2013
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HD stabilized video of the lunar rover from Apollo 16 in 1972
Using a HD transfer of the original Apollo 16 moon rover footage from 16mm film, it was cleaned up and stabilized. It’s almost like you’re right there, except with less real moon dust.
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posted 07 January, 2013
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Old video switching equipment turns a bunkbed into an awesome spaceship
One of the most awesome dads of the year took an old video switching board from a local TV station, slapped some old NASA stickers on it and turned his son’s bunk bed into an awesome fucking spaceship.
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posted 29 December, 2012
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