Sten Odenwald, Author at RocketSTEM

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Sten Odenwald

Dr. Sten Odenwald is an astronomer and educator at the National Institute of Aerospace. He also runs an online resource called The Astronomy Cafe (www.astronomycafe.net).

Radioisotope generators are the ‘nuclear batteries’ that power faraway spacecraft

Voyager 1 thrusters, inoperable for 21 years, fixed from 15 billion miles away

Scientists discover ancient buried beach on Mars

Mars may have once had a carbon cycle more favorable for life

Pearl Young overcame barriers and ‘raised hell’ at NASA

New theory explains how water first arrived on Earth

Why meteorites have less water than the asteroid bits returned by space probes

Extraordinary evidence needed to claim discovery of extraterrestrial life

Potential sign of life found on a distant planet and why many are still skeptical

Gaia telescope ends mission to create 3D map of Milky Way

Sten Odenwald

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