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  • FAST: The World’s Largest Telescope | China Icons (2016)

    FAST: The World’s Largest Telescope | China Icons (2016)

    June 1, 2023 at 1:48 pm / Cosmological, Video

    Large scale project management is in the tradition of China. Construction of impressively large Junk ships in dry dock environment, the terra cotta army with uniquely sculpted soldiers and the Grand Canal is just a few examples among many. Large projects also require risk management skills enabling adapting to inevitable series of changes as the timeline advances. Yet, here we see another recent marvel proudly created by the Chinese. The Five-Hundred-Metre Aperture Spherical Telescope, known as FAST had been constructed […]

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  • Updates from NASA’s Curiosity Rover [Mars Science Laboratory]

    Updates from NASA’s Curiosity Rover [Mars Science Laboratory]

    April 15, 2023 at 11:38 pm / Cosmological, Global Patterns, NatureDocumentaries.org, Video

    Geological evolution of the Earth and Mars have started from very similar origins but yet the two planets have followed quite different trajectories. Geology of our planet has shaped the evolution of life (and vice versa). Understanding Mars will also help understand our own planet. For this reason, Nature Documentaries will be paying attention to this ambitious Mars rover project. Jet Propulsion Laboratory has been holding regular detailed update sessions. You can follow some of these updates below starting from […]

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  • NASA TV live

    NASA TV live

    December 26, 2021 at 8:47 am / Cosmological, Global Patterns, Human Nature, Video

    Ever since the successful landing of Mars rover Curiosity in August 6th of 2012, NASA TV broadcasts have experienced a big surge in viewers. Since then many other successful missions and interesting Earth-based as well as cosmic phenomena have been transmitted to curious masses of viewers all over the world. NASA TV has a rich body of programming including recording and analysis of significant global events such as the Chelyabinsk airburst event. There are regular broadcasts from the International Space […]

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  • Mars on Earth – The Guardian (2015)

    Mars on Earth – The Guardian (2015)

    May 16, 2020 at 9:07 pm / Cosmological, Human Nature, Video

    As the Mars Curiosity Rover is scouring the planet surface and expanding our knowledge NASA is working on ways to help prepare future colonists using an experimental enclosure called Hi-SEAS which stands for the Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation. Hi-SEAS is an exploration of Human nature. How will a small group of space travelers cooperate and solve problems external and internal inside a confined habitat? A return mission to the red planet will be long. It will take about […]

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  • Annotated Features of Moon Surface – Kaguya/JAXA

    Annotated Features of Moon Surface – Kaguya/JAXA

    July 23, 2019 at 11:32 am / Cosmological, Video

    Some astrobiologists consider that having a satellite as big as The Moon could be one of the prerequisites of life on a planet. Satellites with sufficient mass can exert a stabilizing effect on the rotation axis of its planet preventing erratic wobbles like a top loosing its speed. In fact, our Earth experiences such wobbles known as the Milankovich Cycles but thanks to our moon the effects are dampened. 2019 marked the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing […]

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  • OSIRIS-REx Mission to Asteroid Bennu – NASA (2018)

    OSIRIS-REx Mission to Asteroid Bennu – NASA (2018)

    December 7, 2018 at 6:21 pm / Cosmological, Global Patterns, Video

    How did our Sun, the Earth, and the planets form and evolve? Asteroids and comets are the early building blocks of the solar system. They even may hold clues to how life has started on our and perhaps in other planets. The asteroid Bennu contains information going back to four and a half billion years. Visitation and sample collection from asteroid Bennu will be very informative. Here you can watch a concatenation of four videos produced by the NASA Goddard […]

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  • Charting the Galaxy – from HIPPARCOS to Gaia – ESA

    Charting the Galaxy – from HIPPARCOS to Gaia – ESA

    January 15, 2018 at 2:36 pm / Cosmological, Video

    Gaia is an astrometry mission that is built as a continuation of the hugely successful HiPParCoS telescope: the High Precision Parallax Collecting Satellite (HiPParCoS). Since 2013, Gaia has been generating the largest, most precise three-dimensional map of our Galaxy by surveying more than a thousand million stars. Gaia monitors every target star about 70 times over a five-year period recording their positions, distances, movements, and changes in brightness. It is expected to discover hundreds of thousands of new celestial objects, […]

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  • Space Engine Universe Simulator

    Space Engine Universe Simulator

    January 15, 2018 at 12:23 pm / Cosmological, Video

    Space Engine is one impressive project all started by codes written by a single person Vladimir Romanyuk and it is all free! Space Engine is a purely exploratory environment. Almost all objects are real and astronomically mapped using scientific resources such as the HIPPARCOS Project of European Space Agency (ESA) which has now upgraded into the Gaia galaxy mapping mission, the historic 1888 compilation called the New General Catalog/Index Catalog (NGC/IC) of J.L.E. Dreyer, the Messier Objects, the International Astronomical […]

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