Node 3, nicknamed Tranquility, and the Cupola module will be launched next Sunday from NASA's Kennedy Space Center (Florida) bound for the International Space Station (ISS). Cupola is a robotic control station with seven windows offering an "unprecedented" 360-degree view of the exterior of the ISS.
The Hubble Space Telescope has managed to capture spectacular images of Pluto, the dwarf planet - which lost its status as a classic planet in 2006 - with three predominant colors: white, orange and black. The photos show that it is not a simple ball of ice and rock, but a frozen and dynamic world that undergoes seasonal changes that are manifested in the tonality and brightness of its surface.
NASA will launch next week an observatory whose objective will be to transmit every 10 seconds a photograph of the Sun with a definition and color comparable to an IMAX film. The SDO telescope will thus help to unravel the main mysteries of our star and to forecast the intensity of the next solar cycles.
The first images of the asteroid 2867 Steins obtained by the Rosetta probe show that it is diamond-shaped. Researchers from the international team suggest that it has been sunlight that has "carved" this "diamond", through what is called the YORP effect, which consists of an alteration of the rotation of the asteroid on its own axis caused by radiation from the Sun.
A team of scientists led by Ellen Stofan, from Proxemy Research (Washingont, USA), is ready to propose to NASA a mission to explore Lake Ligeia Mare and Lake Kraken Mare of northern Titan, one of the moons. of Saturn, by boat. If the mission succeeds, they will be the first lakes to be explored outside of Earth.
NASA has just launched its WISE observatory, which in the coming months will blink every 11 seconds capturing images of the Universe in infrared light. Look for cool stars, very bright galaxies, asteroids, and comets.
On December 10, 1999, an Ariane 5 rocket took off from Kourou, French Guinea, carrying the 10-meter long XMM-Newton satellite. After several days of maneuvering, it reached its destination, an orbit one third of the way that separates us from the Moon.
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