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NASA Is Actually Going To Visit That Insane Metallic World
There’s nothing quite like Psyche anywhere else in our solar system — a small asteroid belt object made entirely of iron-nickel metal. Which is why NASA has decided to send a probe to check out the bizarre beast up close.
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Try Not To Cry While Watching Earth Rise From The Moon In HD
Video: These aren’t renderings, special effects or a scene from No Man’s Sky. This is actual footage of the Earth and the Moon, as seen by Japan’s Kaguya spacecraft in October 2008. Shot with a pair of 2.2 megapixel HDTV sensors, it’s some of the first HD footage of our nearest neighbour that humans ever…
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NASA’s Mission To Jupiter Will Tell Us Earth’s Origin Story
Five hundred and eighty eight million kilometres away sits a cloud of gas so large that it weighs more than Saturn, Uranus and Neptune combined. It’s so powerful that it’s been accused of slinging entire planets into the sun, and so ancient it could hold the key to the origin of Earth.