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At 77 he remains jovial and talkative. We take advantage of his time at the NASA exhibition, the adventure of space, which can be visited at the Casa de Campo in Madrid until June 15, 2012 to chat with him and discover what he feels when he looks at the Moon from his window, why they walk so strange and curious by the lunar surface and what were his best and worst memories of the mission that took him to our natural satellite.

Data from NASA's Cassini mission reveal that Saturn's moon Phoebe has more planet-like features than previously thought. Using data from different instruments and a computer model of the satellite's chemistry, geophysics and geology, scientists have concluded that it was what is called a planetesimal. The findings are published in the April issue of Icarus magazine.

NASA has successfully launched five rockets in five minutes within the Anomalous Transport Rocket (Atrex) experiment with which the US space agency intends to track the high-altitude winds of the Earth, about 60 or 65 kilometers from the planet's surface. .

Mario Pérez, an astrophysicist with the NASA Scientific Program, takes his iPhone out of his pocket and checks application 1 that shows in real time the number of extrasolar planets identified. "We use this app here to keep up to date on the discoveries made by both ground-based telescopes and the only two space probes dedicated to looking for exoplanets -Kepler and Corot-. You have to keep up to date, because the findings literally increase from week to week ". This Chilean is in charge of the various NASA missions in charge of discovering exoplanets, those that are outside the Solar System.

Jupiter, the limits of the Solar System and Venus are the destinations of three ambitious NASA missions. The first two are already underway, and the third, pending approval. Adriana Ocampo pilots them like a space heroine. Born in Colombia and raised in Buenos Aires, this planetary geologist has been working for NASA in the United States for almost 40 years.

Clouds on Earth have been slightly lower (1% on average) throughout the first decade of this century, a new study based on data from NASA satellites reveals. The results could have implications for the global climate.

NASA has made available to the scientific community a map of the height of forests around the world with a spatial resolution of about one kilometer. The image will be a very useful tool to study the effects of climate change on forests and calculate the total carbon accumulated in vegetation globally.

NASA's Chandra X-ray Space Telescope has recorded the strongest winds ever recorded in space around a binary system containing a massive stellar black hole called IGR J17091-3624 that has a mass around ten times greater. to our Sun. The "whirlwind" moves at 20 million kilometers per hour, that is, 3% of the speed of light.