The navigation cameras of 'Curiosity' have already been activated, after its landing on Mars last Monday, and have provided a great self-portrait of the spacecraft and a 360-degree panorama (above) where the new home of the explorer is shown in the Gale crater.
In the Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy is a star-forming region that has puzzled astronomers around the world for years. It is called the Tarantula Nebula and it is an object so luminous that, if it were at the same distance from Earth as the Orion Nebula, it would even cast shadows on our planet. This luminosity is due to the presence of four supermassive stars of enormous dimensions that were discovered in 2010 by a team of researchers.
This year, the Perseid Meteor Shower, also known as "Saint Lawrence's Tears", will be at its peak during the day, but can be seen quite intensely on the nights of Saturday 11 and Sunday 12 August. The summer meteor shower occurs when, each year around this time, our planet crosses the orbit of Comet Swift-Tuttle.
Elephants are one of the loudest animals on the planet. However, oddly enough, most of the sounds they emit are not perceptible by the human ear, since they are infrasound. These 'silent' messages allow them to maintain contact over distances of up to 10 kilometers and are used to mate, guide the group or search for the young. An international team of scientists has discovered the mechanism by which elephants are capable of producing infrasound.
The first color image of the Martian landscape sent by the Curiosity rover from the red planet was taken yesterday, hours after landing, by the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) instrument. The NASA team in charge of the mission calls this day (August 6, 2012) Sun 1, which is the first Martian day of operations.
In the human species not only children play, but also adults do, something that does not happen in most mammals. According to researchers from Penn State University (USA), this behavior could have an evolutionary explanation, since "the ability of a male to play would indicate to the female that he is not aggressive and that he will not harm his offspring", explains Garry Chick , co-author of the work.
Curiosity, the rover for the red planet also known as the Mars Science Lab (MSL), has just arrived at its destination. We put together some curious figures from this new Martian rover that will provide us with important data about Mars.
The Curiosity rover, the most advanced rover that NASA has sent to Mars so far, has successfully completed its landing on the surface of the red planet, where it arrived at 05.31 GMT (07.31 Spanish time), that is, a little more late than planned. The journey has lasted 36 weeks, and has traveled a distance of 248 million kilometers.
Danni Büchner is invited to Sam Dylan's Halloween party. But the "Goodbye Germany" emigrant has no desire for many other party guests. And find clear words.
