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... a portion of the Deep Impact spacecraft actually collided with a comet—a planned collision. The rest of the spacecraft passed a few miles away from the comet's nucleus.
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Answer provided by Alan Hale, Ph.D. & Capt. USN (Ret.) William Readdy
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... looks like our Moon. Venus is always cloud-covered. Mars mostly looks like a red desert. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune are giant gas planets. Pluto may be a large ball of ice.
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Answer provided by Ed Frederick, Ph.D.
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... to have supplemental oxygen above a pressure altitude of 14,000 feet. The Air Force will require that you give blood if you have a decompression above an altitude of 25,000 feet. This is the maximum altitude to fly ...
... going around and around the Earth in low Earth orbit (LEO) in a space station for several months at a time. The next big journey, after the return to the Moon, will be to Mars.
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Answer provided by Derek Webber
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White light is a combination of all the wavelengths emitted by the Sun in the visible spectrum. When we see a material that is black, it is absorbing most of the light hitting its surface so it appears black to our eyes. You might think of black in space as an area of space which is ...
... is very little chance of getting lost in space. There are numerous satellites, telescopes, and other instruments to monitor and track where vehicles are.
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Answer provided by Futron Corporation
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... and some are very far away, from a few light years to many thousands of light years. The star Proxima Centauri, the closest star outside of our solar system, is a little over four light years away.
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Answer provided by Dirk Terrell, Ph.D.
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... to orbit and to maintain a space orbit. There is a range of speeds at which the different satellites travel. Because of the laws of physics, the faster we travel the higher up in space we are. So if we want to put a satellite in a ...
... miles and is the furthest man-made object from Earth. The longest manned space journey was carried out by the Apollo astronauts traveling to the Moon. Apollo 15 was the longest manned space journey, with a total trip ... cosmonaut Commander Sergei Krikalev is the winner, with 803 days total so far
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Answer provided by Hazel McAndrews
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The surface is pretty strange. We know from analyzing the infrared light reflected from Pluto that its surface is a mixture of a lot of different sorts of ice (ordinary water ice, plus frozen nitrogen, methane, and ... a lot about Pluto, but the spacecraft won't be able to stop and bring a piece of the planet home. It will be a long time before we are able to do that. Fortunately there's a lot we ...
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