Daily Archives: May 18, 2012

All systems are go for Saturday’s historic SpaceX launch

Posted on May 18, 2012 by Deskarati

It’s official. According to Elon Musk, CEO of private space-transport company SpaceX, NASA has given the final go-ahead on a launch that, if successful, will mark the dawn of a new era in spaceflight: the era of commercial spacecraft. Liftoff … Continue reading →

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Praseodymium

Posted on May 18, 2012 by Deskarati

Praseodymium  is a chemical element that has the symbol Pr and atomic number 59. Praseodymium is a soft, silvery, malleable and ductile metal in the lanthanide group. It is too reactive to be found in native form, and when artificially prepared, it slowly develops a green oxide coating. The element was … Continue reading →

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Plutonium signature found after 50 years

Posted on May 18, 2012 by Deskarati

After fifty years of trying by various researchers, a group made up of teams from Los Alamos National Libratory in the US and the Atomic Energy Agency in Japan, have succeeded in spotting the signature of plutonium-239 with magnetic resonance … Continue reading →

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How it feels to orbit planet Earth?

Posted on May 18, 2012 by Deskarati

A timelapse of Planet Earth from Electro-L, a geostationary satellite orbiting 40000km above the Earth. The satellite creates a 121 megapixel image every 30 minutes with four visible and infrared light wavelengths. The infrared light appears green in these images, … Continue reading →

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