Tune in to ‘dinks and donks,’ Marsquakes, and other abnormal voices from the Red Planet

The NASA Insight lander on the Martian surface is furnished with a ultrasensitive seismometer to identify and record vibrations, from marsquakes to delicate breezes to other unidentified vibrations. Tune in underneath. From Space.com: In the event that we were on Mars with our ears to the ground, our ears wouldn’t be delicate enough to recognize…

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Apollo 11 countdown began 50 years back today

The countdown for the Apollo 11 launch started 50 years back today at the Kennedy Space Center, six days before the space astronauts and their Saturn V rocket would take off for the moon. “This is the big one we’ve been working on for eight or nine years,” Launch Director Rocco A. Petrone said told…

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