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One beer company sponsored a graduate student's research into brewing beer in space, [2] and in 2017 another planned to sponsor research on the ISS with the aim of serving beer on Mars. [13] Making alcohol in space would be difficult; for example, conventional distillation would be impossible in zero gravity and the volumes of liquid required ...
Red Bull Stratos was a high-altitude skydiving project involving Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner. On 14 October 2012, Baumgartner flew approximately 39 kilometres (24 mi) [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] into the stratosphere over New Mexico , United States, in a helium balloon before free falling in a pressure suit and then parachuting to Earth. [ 4 ]
Artist's depiction of Pioneer 10, the first spacecraft to visit Jupiter. The exploration of Jupiter has been conducted via close observations by automated spacecraft.It began with the arrival of Pioneer 10 into the Jovian system in 1973, and, as of 2024, has continued with eight further spacecraft missions in the vicinity of Jupiter and two more en route.
Now, new pictures taken by the Earth-orbiting Hubble space telescope show Jupiter's red spot is smaller than it has ever been, measuring just under 10,250 miles (16,100 kilometers) in diameter. It ...
The Great Red Spot is a massive vortex within Jupiter’s atmosphere that is about 10,159 miles (16,350 kilometers) wide, which is similar to Earth’s diameter, according to NASA. The storm ...
The highly visible Great Red Spot on Jupiter could be a heat source, finds a recently published study. Skip to main content. News. 24/7 help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ...
Hubble image of the scar taken on 23 July 2009 during the 2009 Jupiter impact event, showing a blemish of about 8,000 kilometres long. [1] In recorded history, the planet Jupiter has experienced impact events and has been probed and photographed by several spacecraft.
A super Jupiter has been spotted around a neighboring star by the Webb Space Telescope — and it has a super orbit. The planet is roughly the same diameter as Jupiter, but with six times the mass.