Kate is a graduate of Texas A&M University with a Bachelor's degree and is currently working on getting her Master's degree at Southern New Hampshire University. She loves to read and learn about all things space, a fanatic of NASA and the latest space science news. She currently lives in Texas with her two pit bulls, Lennox and Bentley.
The Mars rover Opportunity has reached a milestone. February 15, 2018, marked 5,000 sols (Martian days) that Opportunity has been on Mars when its original mission…
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The Pons serves a specific function in the brain; it sorts and relays messages between different sections of the brain. Specifically, the Pons relays messages…
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Horace Mann invented school and what is today the United States’ modern school system. Horace was born in 1796 in Massachusetts and became the Secretary…
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Sharks do not have bones; instead, they have cartilage that makes up their skeleton. Sharks make some bone material for their teeth and fin spines…
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Bodies of water come in different shapes and sizes from small ponds to rivers and expansive oceans. Each body of water contains a different ecosystem…
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Back in 2000, NASA launched a satellite, the Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration satellite (called IMAGE) and after 5 years NASA lost contact with the satellite. The satellite’s…
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The planets in order from the sun are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and finally the dwarf planet Pluto. Most people have at…
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Back in December of 2017, President Trump signed a directive which essentially told NASA to focus more on getting back to the Moon rather than…
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The next Mars lander, InSight, is currently preparing for its upcoming launch in May by deploying its solar panels inside Lockheed Martin’s lab in Colorado. With…
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Frogs eat other animals as they are carnivores. This includes eating everything from insects, grasshoppers, worms, snails, and other bugs for small frogs to eating…
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White squirrels, sometimes misidentified as albino squirrels are more commonplace in Asia but they do appear in certain geographic regions of North America. Sometimes albino…
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