saturn
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Saturn’s Moon Enceladus Is Belching Up a Key Life Ingredient
Scientists have found traces of phosphorus, a fundamental ingredient for life, in ice grains spewed into space by Enceladus, one of Saturn’s moons.
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Remembering Saturn V, the Rocket That Took Us to the Moon
“We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard,” President John Kennedy said famously in a 1962 speech. A bold goal, and a goal that required NASA to develop a rocket capable of the task.
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Scientists Debunk Myth That Noise From NASA’s Powerful Saturn V Rocket Melted Concrete
On November 9, 1967, a 110.64 m-tall Saturn V rocket launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Centre, generating 7.5 million pounds of thrust. The blast created by the Apollo 4 liftoff was among the loudest noises ever produced by our species, scientists calculated at the time. In fact, the roar was so loud that it sparked…
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Ripples in Saturn’s Rings Reveal Planet’s Core Is Big and Jiggly
A team of astrophysicists looking at data from the Cassini spacecraft’s tour of Saturn have estimated a new size for the planet’s core. Studying gravitational effects on the icy rings, the team determined that Saturn’s core is a combination of ice, rock, hydrogen, and helium about 50 times as massive as Earth, making it much…