Nice astronomy blog in Spanish - Los Viajeros estelares

Monday, July 07, 2008

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While doing a search for something else today I happened upon quite a nice blog in Spanish and entirely devoted to astronomy called Los Viajeros Estelares (The Stellar Travelers). The author seems to write a single post every day, and they're quite detailed. The post today for example is about the new findings announced about Mercury:

Pequeño y perdido dentro del resplandor del Sol, el mas interior de todos los planetas ha sido uno de los grandes olvidados de la exploracion espacial, dada las dificultades para estudiarlo y la existencia de otras prioridades para las agencias espaciales, como pueden ser la Luna o Marte...solo una sonda, la Mariner 10, lo habia visitado, y de eso ya hacia 34 años. Un panorama de cierta indiferencia hacia este lugar singular que esta empezando a cambiar con la llegada de la norteamericana MESSENGER.

"Small and lost inside the splendour of the Sun, the most inner of all the planets has been one of the most forgotten in space exploration, given the difficulties in studying it and the existence of other priorities for space agencies, such as the Moon or Mars...only one craft, Mariner 10, has visited it, and it's been 34 years since then. A panorama(?) of certain indifference towards this unique place that is beginning to change with the arrival of the North American MESSENGER."

If you can't read Spanish you can also see it automatically translated here.

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