Back in 2000 in the canadian province of British Columbia has landed a unique meteorite. Scientists believe that the cosmic body that passed a greater distance, was once part of the Kuiper belt (the asteroid belt, located near the orbit of Neptune). In 2000 in Canada was a meteorite, the …
Read More »SolarCity after the merger with Tesla intends to produce solar panels of a new type
August 11, NEW YORK Correspondent. TASS, Ivan sawyers As told Elon Musk we are talking about the beginning of the production of roofs, the entire surface which will be a continuous solar battery EPA/JIM HOLLANDER NEW YORK, August 11. /Offset. TASS Ivan sawyers/. Us energy company SolarCity after its acquisition …
Read More »NASA will search for exoplanets near Solar system
Because the bulk of the search for exoplanets is to remote from us worlds, space Agency NASA has approved a new space mission Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) to search for exoplanets that are relatively close to our house. The mission is expected to start in 2017-2018. The main …
Read More »Solar Impulse 2 completes a trip around the world
The plane on solar batteries Solar Impulse 2 has started the last flight in his trip around the world. Taking off from Cairo, he is expected in 48 hours I will land in Abu Dhabi, where to start and where to end with “around the world”. Flying around the globe …
Read More »A unique project of the city, powered by solar energy. Photo
The city will be in the vicinity of Melbourne. More recently it became known that Australia will begin construction of the world’s first city of Tesla. Organic produce that amount of energy, which will be sufficient to meet the needs of the entire infrastructure of the city. “City Tesla (Tesla …
Read More »Take me to mercury: it looks like dawn of the planets of the Solar system. Photo
The sun is lovely and on other planets. The sun, without which we cannot imagine life on our planet. We all love to remember gorgeous sunsets and sunrises, from which it was impossible to put down. But can we imagine what it looks like a heavenly body on other planets? …
Read More »Astronomers have discovered more than 100 planets outside the Solar system
Of the 104 new exoplanets that are open with the help of the Kepler telescope, 2 may have conditions hospitable to life. Space telescope Kepler was able to find 197 new candidate exoplanet in the framework of the mission K2. An international team of astronomers has confirmed that 104 of …
Read More »Scientists have discovered a new dwarf planet in the Solar system
New dwarf planet in 2015 RR245 makes a full revolution around the Sun in about 700 years. An international group of scientists has discovered a new dwarf planet located beyond the orbit of Neptune. The international astronomical Union (IAU) named the planet RR245 2015. This is a temporary name until …
Read More »In the United States will experience roads with solar electric panels
The Department of transportation of Missouri, the United States is going to install a test road section, which will consist of solar panels. The test road is set on the famous route 66. The main goal of this project is to learn whether the technology of generating electricity from solar …
Read More »Astronomers have discovered the formation of the Solar system
Astronomers were able to solve the riddle of the origin of the Solar system. Scientists said that the birth of the Solar system and its planets was followed by a clash of icy planetary “embryos” and a molten rocky bodies. this fact indicates the presence of magnetized rocks in meteorites. …
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