In 2005, the Hayabusa spacecraft developed by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) landed on Itokawa, a small near-Earth asteroid named after the famous Japanese rocket scientist Hideo Itokawa. The aim of the unmanned ...
Space Exploration
Mar 8, 2017
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Asteroids were once viewed as the vermin of the sky, disrupting astronomical observations by leaving streaks on long-exposure photographic plates used to take pictures of the stars. How times have changed. These remnants ...
Space Exploration
Jun 2, 2016
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As the west coast of Britain emerges from yet another battering – this time caused by the "remnants" of the United States' Winter Storm Jonas blizzards – new research has been published which reveals the extent to which ...
Earth Sciences
Jan 29, 2016
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Boulders can be effective barriers to protect embassies and other buildings from large vehicle impacts, and a simple model is sufficient to select the right size boulder for the job, according to a team of Penn State researchers.
Engineering
Jan 5, 2015
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Breaking up may be hard to do, but these two lunar boulders seem to have succeeded extremely well! Imaged by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) in October of 2009, this crumbled couple was recently identified ...
Space Exploration
Feb 28, 2012
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Workers digging an underground garage for a new hotel in Everett, Washington, recently struck something big about 30 feet below the surface.
Earth Sciences
Nov 20, 2014
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