1. Elysium Mons Location: Mars Height: 14.1km Elysium Mons was also discovered by the orbiting Mariner 9 but in 1972. It stands in the surrounding lava plains in Mars’ eastern hemisphere and has a diameter at...
Category - Discovery
The Large Magellanic Cloud is about 40,000 light-years closer than the Small Magellanic Cloud and more than 2 million light-years closer than the Andromeda galaxy. The Magellanic Clouds were visible to early peoples in the...
The Orion Nebula, or M42, is visible from most parts of the world from November to February, which is when the constellation of Orion (pictured) is in the night sky. While most nebulae (clouds of interstellar gas and dust) are...
The Milky Way got its name from the way it looks from the ground: like a streak of spilt milk across the sky. That hazy white band is made up of stars, dust and gas. It looks like a flat stripe because we are viewing it from...
Some of the earliest astronomers in recorded history proposed that we live in a geocentric universe in which Earth lies at the center of everything. According to them, the sun rotated around us, which caused sunrises and sunsets...
Humanity is set on the idea of visiting Mars in person, but there’s the pesky problem of hazardous radiation during long-duration spaceflights to get there. Scientists have raised concerns about brain damage...
NASA’s Perseverance Rover and its little helicopter Ingenuity landed together inside Mars on 18 Feb at Jezero Crater. On 1st Jun, the robotic duo completes 100 Martian days or 100 sols. (1 sol is slightly longer than...
1. Olympus Mons Olympus Mons is the one of the biggest volcano in the solar system. “It is about the same size as the state of Arizona, and located in the Tharsis volcanic region in Mars”, According to NASA. It’s nearly...