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Risk of Gravity disaster in space
A disconnected bus-sized satellite from 2012 could explode and release a catastrophic waste cloud in Gravity.
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Space science
A mysterious missing American spacecraft
Experts of the US Aerospace Agency were confused after a ship suddenly stopped contacting the control center.
Space science
Satellite Envisat officially retired
The European Aeronautics Agency (ESA) on May 9 officially announced the end of Envisat's mission, the world's largest environmental monitoring satellite, lost contact la…
Space science
Capture the world's largest satellite image missing
The European Space Agency (ESA) said that on April 15, the French Pleiades observing satellite captured the image of Envisat's largest observation satellite, lost contac…
Space science
The world's largest earth observation satellite is missing
The European Space Agency (ESA) announced yesterday that it had lost contact with Envisat, the largest earth-tracking satellite in human history. Envisat operators did n…
Space science
Amino acids help to understand the origin of life
NASA scientists discovered amino acids - the basic material of life - in a meteorite falling into Sudan in 2008.
Scientific application
Vietnam has the first ENVISAT satellite image receiving station in Asia
Vietnam satellite image receiving station officially operated in the morning of July 9, 2009. Vietnam is the first country in Asia to have an ENVISAT satellite image rec…
Environment
Aral Lake is shrinking rapidly
Aral used to be the fourth largest lake in the world, but it quickly shrunk over the last 50 years since water supply rivers were converted to irrigation projects for ag…
Environment
A new ocean is forming
Scientists predict that within a few million years a gap of about 60km in the Afar valley (belonging to Ethiopia and Eritrea) could become a new ocean in Africa.
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Spot the enchanting Earth from space satellites
The images recorded by Envisat satellite give us a new perspective on this planet.
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The 7 largest objects people ever launched into space
The International Space Station, the Saturn V rocket, the Hubble space telescope are three of the largest human objects ever launched into space.