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Pebbles on Mars

The recent Martian Perseverance mission has rekindled interest in the search for traces of the presence of water on Mars. However already with the Curiosity mission, landed on the red planet il 6 August 2012, Interesting discoveries have been made on the possible presence of ancient waterways that, more than 3 billions of years ago, they would have plowed the surface of the planet. Along the exploratory journey made in the Gale crater, located below the Martian equator and originated around 3,6 billions of years ago, the Curiosity rover has identified and photographed several rocks with an interesting structure. These are sedimentary rocks composed of [...]

Don't panic: the random motion of Tesla in space

Minerva2018-03-05T12:03:28+01:006 March 2018|Categories: No Category|Tags: Bowie, Space exploration, Falcon Heavy, Fall us, Mars, Rein, Roadster, SpaceX, Tamayo, Tesla, Polygonal, Of Brown|

Elon Musk's recent stunt to launch a red Tesla Roadster towards Mars, complete with a pilot in an astronaut suit in the driver's seat, brought to light a technological theme initially developed in the 1960s, during the Apollo missions. We are talking about super-heavy launchers, i.e. those rockets that allow you to carry at least 50 tons of weight in low Earth orbit (between 160 and 2000 km of altitude). In astronautics they are called vectors (or launchers) those designed missiles, and used, to send a certain “payload” into space. Depending on the payload (payload in inglese) [...]