National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Mars’ beautiful “blue sunset”

Curiosity Mars rover is currently exploring Gale crater on Mars, since 2012. The NASA space vehicle recently sent over some amazingly beautiful pictures of a “blue sunset” from the planet.

 

The photos were received on the 15th of April and depict the sun being lost over the horizon of the red planet.

 

Bulgarian Scientists Develop First Space Greenhouse on Earth

Scientists from Bulgaria, which is the third country in the world in the production of space food after Russia and the USA, have developed the first space greenhouse on Earth.

The aim of this programme is the production of space food, which does not differ from the genuine taste of food, private NOVA TV station reports.

Two solar eruptions caused geomagnetic storm

As was announced by US National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), two solar eruptions occurred on Sunday causing a strong geomagnetic storm on Tuesday’s earth atmosphere that could disrupt electricity and telecommunications networks.

However, according to the announcement, no problems have been reported so far.

Astronauts return to Earth on Russian Soyuz spaceship

Two Russian cosmonauts and an American astronaut on Thursday returned to Earth aboard a Soyuz space capsule after spending six months at the International Space Station.
      
Yelena Serova -- the first female Russian cosmonaut to have spent time on the ISS -- landed along with Alexander Samokutyaev and Barry Wilmore in snowy Kazakhstan just after sunrise.
      

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