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Last week, NASA’s Cassini Mission came to an end when the spacecraft crashed into the planet Saturn. This was, of course, a planned event: a [...]
September 20, 2017
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This is a follow-up to my recent post about NASA’s next flagship-class mission. There seemed to be a lot of interest in the comments about a [...]
July 31, 2017
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Let’s imagine you’re NASA. You have two big flagship-class missions coming up: one to search for life on Mars (launcing in 2020) and another [...]
July 19, 2017
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Welcome to a very special holiday edition of Sciency Words! Today’s science or science-related term is: FROST LINE When a new star is forming, [...]
December 23, 2016
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In his book All These Worlds Are Yours: The Scientific Search for Alien Life, author Jon Willis gives you $4 billion. How many authors do that? [...]
October 11, 2016
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The first Monday of the month is Molecular Monday, the day I write about my least favorite subject from school: chemistry. I’d planned to write [...]
October 3, 2016
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Welcome to Molecular Monday! On the first Monday of the month, we take a closer look at the atoms and molecules that make up our physical [...]
September 5, 2016
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My trip to Titan is almost over. Soon, I’ll have to find some other planet or moon to blog from. But before I leave, there’s one last thing I [...]
August 31, 2016
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I’ve made a friend on Titan: a giant, multi-tentacled monster that swims around in Titan’s lakes of liquid methane. Today, my new friend [...]
August 24, 2016
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I’ve been exploring the surface of Titan for several weeks now. During my time here, I have not discovered alien life, but alien life sure has [...]
August 22, 2016
