In less than three years, astronauts will return to the moon for the first time since the Apollo era. As part of the Artemis program, the purpose is not just to find and collect specimens on a mission crewed to the moon’s surface. At this time, there is also the …
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It is the largest and strangest of all the formations on Earth: huge, mysterious blobs of ga ense stone hidden deep in the lower parts of our planet’s mantle. These include two large populations called the Large Low-Shear-Vagilance Provinces (LLSVPs) – one buried under Africa and the other under the …
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Scientists have started plans for re-population, starting with the Semen Bank – on the moon. In what they call the “modern global insurance policy”, mechanical engineers have proposed that humans establish a repository of sperm and ova-reproductive cells from the earth’s 7.7 million species. And the proposed bank, or “ship”, …
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Twelve American men have gone to the moon. The last Apollo astronaut left his footprint there in December 1972. Now, half a century later, NASA is planning to send people back to the moon. The new program after Apollo’s legendary twin sister is called Artemis, and its goal is the …
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Earth’s second moon will approach Earth before going into space next week, never to be seen again. “Which other moon,” you ask? Astronomers call it 2020 SO – a small object that orbited Earth between our planet and the Moon in September 2020. Temporary satellites like these are known as …
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