On Sunday night, an asteroid with a core containing platinum said to be worth $5 trillion passed within 1.5 million miles of Earth, as researchers drooled over the possibility of one day mining space for valuable minerals, according to Forbes. The first detailed images of Asteroid 2011 UW158 were released last week by Puerto Rico’s …
A day after New Horizons first successful flyby, images have returned to us revealing ice mountains up to 11,000 ft high on Pluto’s surface. Absence of craters means that the surface is relatively young, no more than 100 million years old. Other images taken include this high res image of Charon, Pluto’s largest moon. According to NBCNews: The scientists …
Wanna see something cool? Head on over to NASA TV, you’ll see the last two daily briefings from the New Horizons/Pluto Missions. What will we see? The atmosphere (pardon the pun) is abuzz with excitement. There are even cool campaigns such as the “find your pluto time ” tool on Nasa’s website. https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/plutotime/ Using this …