~ Introduction ~ Everyday we come across mirrors or similar reflective surfaces and we take it for granted because we are used to seeing them. But why are some surfaces reflective and others not? Could

More dust on Mars! This time it is not about the current storm of global scale (check out my previous posts for that one), but about a local one, from April this year which has been active near the north

This little animation shows that neither NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter can see what's under the dust storms on Mars. Its camera called Mars Color Imager (MARCI) has been recording the whole planet

About Curiosity As it is well known, Curiosity is a car-sized rover designed to explore Gale Crater on Mars as part of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission (MSL). It landed on Aeolis Palus in Gale Crater

Now for something different! A slightly forgotten mission and a somewhat hushed space body! In a picture that has been taken by NASA's Down Probe from about 450 km in height, we see perforated terrain

On 6 June at 11:12 GMT, ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst, NASA astronaut Serena Auñón-Chancellor and Roscosmos commander Sergei Prokopyev launched into space in the Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft from Baikonur cosmodrome

Hello everyone! I just wanted to share a quick introduction about me here on Steemit :) I'm still very new to Steemit but also very excited about it because I feel that it is the perfect place to share

Link to livestream A Russian Soyuz rocket will launch the next crew to the International Space Station starting in about 6 minutes ! Don't miss it !

Source Six years ago two of the experiments at CERN independently detected and observed the Higgs boson - the last missing elementary particle of the Standard Model. The next step was to determine the

The International Space Station (ISS) is the largest human-made body currently in orbit around Earth. Launched in 1998, it orbits the Earth at ~ 400km above the surface which means that one full orbit

Hello everyone ! Just wanted to share these two photos from my latest visit to Split, Croatia. I really enjoy the Mediterranean nature and I hope you do too. 😁

Hello everyone ! I just wanted to share with you these pictures from the beaufitul Čiovo, Croatia... This landscape is typical for Dalmatia and the Mediterranean in general. This small path leads into

Jupiter's Swirling Clouds The JunoCam instrument on board of the Juno spacecraft took photos of Jupiter's south pole and its chaotic clouds on April 1st during the closest approach - 24,749 kilometers

A spiral disguised As said in the original source, this beautiful galaxy resembles a "wizard's staff set aglow". The spiral galaxy NGC 1032 is located some hundred million light years away and

Hello everyone ! I wanted to share a few pictures from one of my recent hikes near Rijeka, Croatia. Rijeka is located in beautiful Istria and is the third largest city in Croatia. It is famous for frequent