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400,171 kilometers (and counting)

400,171 kilometers (and counting)

ONS News•yesterday, 22:31•Amended today, 00:22 At a distance of 400,171 kilometers from Earth, the Orion lunar capsule set a new record: never has a spacecraft designed for manned flight reached so far into space. NASA announced tonight that the milestone was reached shortly after Orion launched into wide lunar orbit. The old record was held by the Apollo 13 mission, …

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This is how rare the Ford Scorpio has become

This is how rare the Ford Scorpio has become

What is a Ford Scorpion? It was the biggest Ford passenger car from Ford Europe (American Fords were bigger of course) that you could get in the Netherlands from 1985 to 1998. A model above the mid-size Sierra, then from the Mondeo and the successor to the Granada. The first Ford Scorpio, designed by Uwe Bahnsen. Hard to imagine now, …

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The Orion spacecraft takes very clear photos of the moon | Technology

The Orion spacecraft takes very clear photos of the moon |  Technology

The first space mission of Artemis I provided impressive images of the lunar surface. NASA released the Pictures who were shot down by the Orion spacecraft. The spacecraft, which launched last week, arrived on the moon on Monday. Orion passed the celestial body at an altitude of 130 kilometers. During the flyby, Orion captured a large number of sharp black-and-white …

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5x hair colors that work well for people with fine hair

5x hair colors that work well for people with fine hair

You do not choose the structure of your hair yourself, unfortunately for some. One is born with a big bush, the other has to be content with a few straight locks along the face. But also for this latter group of thin-haired people, there are plenty of options to do something different with your hair. For example, you can try …

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Wild rabbits must restore the population in the dunes of North Holland

Wild rabbits must restore the population in the dunes of North Holland

NH News In cooperation with NH News ONS News•today, 11:37•Amended today, 15:08 Wild rabbits will soon be released into the dunes of Castricum. The foresters of the nature manager PWN hope to restore the population with this. A series of viruses have caused significant rabbit deaths over the past few decades. As a result, the animals have now almost disappeared …

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Sharing a laptop? WhatsApp Web is working on password protection for chats | Technology

Sharing a laptop?  WhatsApp Web is working on password protection for chats |  Technology

WhatsApp Web users will soon be able to provide additional security for the app. The messaging service will give them the option to protect their chats with a password, reports the generally well-known WABetaInfo Monday. iOS and Android users have long had the choice of securing messaging through facial recognition or fingerprint scanning. This is in addition to locking the …

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Apps of the week: Google consolidates your health data | Technology

Apps of the week: Google consolidates your health data |  Technology

20 nov 2022 om 04:58 Spotify now works better on your Apple Watch, and Google aggregates your health data on Android. These are the apps of the week. Spotify For Apple Watch users, Spotify has received a major update. The extra screen real estate of the latest Apple Watch models is now better utilized, so you don’t need to use …

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You’ve never seen Venus so beautiful, but what are these red clouds hiding?

You've never seen Venus so beautiful, but what are these red clouds hiding?

In 1974, NASA’s Mariner 10 space probe visited the planet Venus. The famous photos of the time were reworked in 2020. Mariner 10 flew less than 6,000 kilometers past Earth’s neighbor in early February 1974. Astronomers were surprised to see several visible details in the dense cloud cover. Based on these details, they were able to determine that cloud cover …

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Astronomers a little shaken by the very first image of James Webb

Astronomers a little shaken by the very first image of James Webb

The famous photo shows some of the first galaxies that formed shortly after the Big Bang. And they are very different from expectations… A few days after the official start of the long-awaited mission of James Webb, the telescope treated us a nice color photo. This deep-field image shows thousands of galaxies, including very young ones that were previously out …

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Meteorite on UK driveway gives clue to how water got to Earth | Science

Meteorite on UK driveway gives clue to how water got to Earth |  Science

A meteorite that hit a UK driveway offers strong clues to the origin of life on Earth. Space rock contains water, which is very similar to the water on our planet. Water was crucial for the emergence of life on Earth. But scientists don’t yet know how this water got here. A widely held theory is that asteroids outside our …

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