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NASA has sent robotic probes to other planets in our solar system, and helped astronomers gaze into the depths of the universe. Beyond all that, NASA also has used its satellites and scientists to help us to
And a Japanese 16 has made a plan for constructing buildings on bridges over Tokyo Bay. There are some people who think we will go back to living in 17. But the caves of the future will be quite 18 the caves of the Stone Age. Computers will control light and climate. Farms and ...
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Image courtesy NASA Today's technology also makes it possible for cartographers to make detailed maps of places they have never been. The field of remote sensing, or aerial and satellite photography, has given cartographers a vast amount of new information about the Earth. Remote sensing isn'...
They're removed and disposed of once the spacecraft has landed. The liquid waste is sent into space. How The International Space Station Handles Waste On the International Space Station, liquid wastes are recycled through a special water treatment plant and turned back into drinking water. ...
So Einstein helped the "Star Trek" writers manipulate space in a science fictional universe, but is it actually possible to build a spaceship that could propel people across vast galaxies in a relatively short period of time? Physicist Miguel Alcubierre has suggested the use of so-called "exotic...
Parker Solar Probe.Photo Illustration/NASA The importance of the Parker Solar Probe's heat shield The probe has been heralded by NASA as an engineering marvel. Itsheat shieldhas been designed to withstand temperatures of about 2,500 degrees Fahrenheit while facing the sun at its closest approach...
Now you may be wondering what any of this device has to do with Earth and its axis. The connection between the two can be found in the concept of gyroscopic stability. The planet acts as a colossal gyroscope because it rotates around its axis. This rotation gives Earth a property known ...
The approval of NASA, the aerospace community, and finally, the Smithsonian Institution lentStar Trekan unlikely cachet that has helped the franchise to—to borrow a phrase—live long and prosper. After other, higher-rated television shows of the same era were forgotten,Star Trekfound new life....