Astronomy

September 27, 2018

SpaceX Aims to Start a Self-Sustaining City on Mars in 2022

Elon Musk's SpaceX recently announced that Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa will take a private passenger flight around the moon in 2023. Thanks to this trip, the company will be able to continue development on the BFR (Big Falcon Rocket), which will help with satellites, space station missions, and interplanetary transport. “Interplanetary” means that things are about to get interesting—all plans are leading up to the development of a self-sustaining civilization on Mars.

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November 7, 2017

100-Megapixel Photo Lets You Observe Rich Details of Craters on the Moon

Most of us spend a good portion of our lives thinking you can only get a good look at the moon through a high-powered telescope, but technology continues to prove us wrong, as NASA places stunning images from its Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter for the public to view and process. Orbiting Earth's moon since 2009, there's plenty of material to dig through and when Seán Doran (a master of processing raw NASA images)

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