Latest Articles on Space
-NASA is “flooded” with Asteroid Exploration ideas.
Over 400 proposals have sent into NASA for an asteroid-retrieval mission that may happen in the future. The agency will review the ideas then release the best proposals that they may use for future projects in September. NASA says these proposals, mostly coming from private companies and other agencies, will hold the key to future exploration of asteroids in the solar system. One proposal as (as seen in the image above) shows a solar powered space craft moving an asteroid away from Earth so it can be explored or even mined. In the future, asteroids will be mined due to some of the precious elements they may hold. In fact, a company is already pursuing this idea.
-The idea of exploring Jupiter’s moon, Europa.
Experts say that Europa has salt water seas under a large thick ice could harbor life. Flybys and remote sensing can help scientists better understand this moon. In 2022 European Space Agency’s JUICE spacecraft will launch. It will arrive in 2030, and make a flyby by Europa twice. The idea of a rover and manned mission has also been discussed. Sending a rover or even a manned mission to Europa would create challenges. Europa has no atmosphere so sending a rover to ice layer and eventually under into the sea below would create great challenges. The idea of a man mission has been thrown around (to Jupiter and it’s moons) but of course the idea of sending people that far into deep space is decades away.
Latest Articles on Technology
-Sony and Panasonic promise a 300 gigabyte disc by 2015.
Sony and Panasonic are pushing towards building the most powerful discs to date and plan to release theirs by 2015. Other rival companies will follow suit. Expect the new era of discs within the next two years.
-Laser experiments could lead to faster computer chips.
A change in a computer chip could lead to a creation of a smaller, faster, and more powerful computer. Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory reported that magnetite, a naturally magnetic mineral was found to have the fastest-possible electrical switching time. Published in the Nature Materials magazine, the team that is running experiments on this idea say there is still more work to do, but progress is being made.
-Biometric scanner code spotted in latest iOS 7 beta.
The word “biometric” has been spotted in the latest iOS 7 update suggesting that fingerprint identification technology is in the works to be in the next version of Apple’s iPhone. This could open up new paths to new innovations for the average person. It’ll be interesting to see what developers could create with this new technology.
Credit to Space.com and Nbcnews.com for the images.
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