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MAVEN resumes scientific research and operations
(ORDO NEWS) — NASA‘s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission returned to normal scientific activity on May 28, 2022 after exiting a long safe mode. In February, the spacecraft experienced problems with its inertial measurement units (IMUs). MAVEN launched in November 2013 and went into orbit around Mars in September 2014. The purpose of the mission is to study the planet’s upper atmosphere, ionosphere, and interactions with the Sun…
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Scientific research as an art. Or vice versa!
(ORDO NEWS) — Both science and art are human attempts to understand and describe the world around us. However, for those who do not exercise regularly in either, it often seems that these areas have very little in common. Naked Science decided to ask if this is so. Art and science have always coexisted together, often indistinguishably from each other, in time and space (think of Leonardo da Vinci, for…
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Planet X – is there any scientific evidence
(ORDO NEWS) — In 1976, in his book The 12th Planet, author Zecharia Sitchin put forward the controversial hypothesis that modern humans did not evolve naturally, but were genetically engineered by a race of anthropomorphic beings whose home is another planet in our solar system that has yet to be open. Mr. Sitchin, or rather the ancient Sumerians (since he always insisted that his writings were based on Sumerian stories),…
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Difference between the blue shades of Uranus and Neptune received a scientific explanation
(ORDO NEWS) — A team of researchers have found a possible explanation for the difference between the blue hues of Uranus and Neptune. Planets such as Mars and Jupiter have recently attracted a lot of attention from the astronomical community, but the other two planets have remained undeservedly forgotten – data on Uranus and Neptune are very limited, since special probes were not sent to study them. Currently, the only…
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Japan’s supercomputer crashed 77 terabytes of scientific data
(ORDO NEWS) — Research files of scientists from Kyoto University disappeared due to an error in the backup system of the Hewlett-Packard supercomputer. An error in the backup system resulted in the loss of 77 terabytes of data from a supercomputer installed at Kyoto University in Japan. This was reported by the Internet publication in the field of information security Bleeping Computer. The incident occurred in mid-December, but information about…
