All_About_Space_-_Issue_94_2020

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Welcome Ourcontributorsinclude...

TheEuropean

SpaceAgency

hasrecently

announced

a brand-new

ambitious

missiontoaninterstellarobject,

makingitswaythroughourSolar

System.TheycallittheComet

Interceptor.Thisissuewechatto

thescientistsbehindthemission

onwhatwecanexpectwhenthe

missionlaunchesin2028.

Granted,that'squitea whileaway

yet,buttheexcitementofa mission

that'ssettoechotheachievements

ofmechanicalduoRosettaand

Philae,whichcompletedonetricky

manoeuvreafteranotherinorderto

successfullyvisitandstudyComet

67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenkoup

closein2014,isprevalent– whatwill

wefindwhenwevisitaninterstellar

world?CometInterceptorcouldbe

thespacecrafttorevealthesecrets

GemmaLavender

Editor-in-Chief

Keepuptodate

LeeCavendish

StaffWriter

OurviewsoftheRed

Planethavechanged

dramaticallyinrecent

years.Leepresentsthe

newdiscoveriesthat

haveturnedourtheories

ontheirhead

Alberto

Dominguez

Astrophysicist

Albertoprovides

a five-minute

masterclasson

Einstein'sequation

linkingmassandenergy,

thecentury-oldE=mc

GilesSparrow

Spacesciencewriter

Astronomer

TychoBrahedied

undersuspicious

circumstances– this

issue,historiansbelieve

thatthey'vefinally

solvedthecase

JamesRomero

Spacesciencewriter

OurMoonis much

morealivethanwe

originallythought.

Jamesrevealsthewater

andvolcanicactivity

foundbyNASAand

ISROspacecraft

Facebook

/A l l A b o ut S p a c e M a g a z i n e

Tw i t t e r

@spaceanswers

Online

http://www.spaceanswers.com

oftheSolarSystem'soriginonce

andforall.Turntopage 16 for

spacesciencereporterJonathan

O'Callaghan'sfullreport.

Alsothisissue,weuncoverwho

reallykilled16th-centuryastronomer

TychoBrahe– didnaturalcauses

claimhislifeorwasitsomething

muchmoresinister?Historianshave

placedassociateandfellowobserver

JohannesKeplerfirmlyintheframe–

butthereareothersuspects,asyou'll

discoveroveronpage38.

We'vealsoteamedupwithHaynes

ManualsandSpaceRocksthis

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