Europe’s Rosetta spacecraft and the Philae lander were built and launched by the European Space Agency. Both of them have the task of studying the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (67P) and on November 12, 2014 the Philae managed to achieve a first in the history of mankind: it landed on a comet. Europe’s Rosetta Spacecraft sent back information about the surface of the comet and it’s not what … [Read more...]
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Earth Will Beam About 90,000 Messages to Mars
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November 28, 2014 marks the 50th anniversary of NASA’s Mariner IV mission on Mars. Mariner IV was the first spacecraft to show us how Mars planet really looked like. Until Mariner IV’s successful mission, some people believed that the Red Planet was inhabited by H.G. Wells’ Martians. After seven months, the interplanetary probe sent to Earth 21 images of Mars, encoded in binary digits and … [Read more...]