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Thursday’s CSExtra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. Scientists find evidence for Martian super volcanoes. Cameras on NASA Martian spacecraft capture photos of comet ISON. U. S. Government shutdown may slow planning for NASA’s 2020 Mars rover mission. All NASA deep space missions operating in spite of U. S. government shutdown. The European Space Agency’s ATV-4 lights rocket engines to raise the altitude of the six person International Space Station. Solar eruption earlier this week fuels new auroral displays. NASA and the U. S. government shutdown. A long ago spacewalk by U. S. Gemini astronaut Ed White, the first suited space excursion by an American, still stirs emotions over space exploration. New film Gravity brings excitement, risk of human space exploration to new audiences.
1. From the Los Angeles Times: Scientists document surface evidence of Martian super volcanoes. The deep scar like remnants may go a long way in explaining the red planet’s internal processes and dramatic atmospheric transformations.
A. From Nature via Science News: Mars was reshaped by super volcanic eruptions, researchers report in a new simulation study.
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/353645/description/Supervolcanoes_once_erupted_on_Mars
2. From Universetoday.com: High resolution camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter snaps photos of Comet ISON. ISON does not appear to be that bright as it speeds toward a late November encounter with the sun, the website reports.
http://www.universetoday.com/105223/this-is-comet-ison-seen-from-mars/
3. From Space.com: NASA’s call to the space community for suggestions regarding the 2020 Mars rover mission may have to await the outcome of deliberations on the U. S. government shutdown. An Oct. 8 conference may not be held.
http://www.exploredeepspace.com/23037-nasa-mars-rover-2020-government-shutdown.html
4. From the Planetary Society: All NASA planetary science missions operated by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the Applied Physics Laboratory continue to operate in spite of the U. S. federal government shutdown. The dissemination of mission information, however, has been slowed by the closure. Missions under way stretch from Messenger at Mercury to Voyager, which is now beyond the solar system.
http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2013/10010929-shutdown-jpl-operating.html
5. From Ria Novosti: The European Space Agency’s ATV-4 ignites rocket engines to raise the altitude of the six person International Space Station.
http://en.rian.ru/russia/20131003/183912635/European-Space-Freighter-Raises-ISS-Orbit.html
6. From Space.com: Solar eruption earlier this week sends solar cloud plummeting in to the Earth’s magnetic field, lighting up the northern lights.
http://www.exploredeepspace.com/23050-solar-storm-sun-eruption-hits-earth.html
7. From Spacepolicyonline.com: U. S. government remains shutdown following a meeting of top White House and Congressional personnel on Wednesday. NASA among agencies with most personnel furloughed.
http://www.spacepolicyonline.com/news/government-shutdown-fy2014-day-two
A. From Space News: NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory weathers U. S. government shutdown. JPL is managed for NASA by the California Institute of Technology as a contractor. The relationship permits JPL to remain open to watch over robotic missions though it cannot report their status over social and traditional media channels. JPL’s open status, however, could change in a week if the shutdown continues, according to a spokeswoman.
B. From ABC News.com: NASA copes with government shutdown. Most employees, including astronauts on the ground, are furloughed. A prolonged furlough may delay upcoming missions like MAVEN, the next U. S spacecraft destined for Mars.
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/government-shutdowns-impact-nasa/story?id=20446648
C. From the Orlando Sentinel: NASA side lined by furlough, more than most federal agencies.
D. From National Public Radio: NASA’s social media outreach silenced by government shutdown.
http://www.npr.org/2013/10/02/228502839/the-government-shutdowns-final-frontier-how-nasa-is-dealing
8. From Life.com: NASA Astronaut Ed White’s first U. S. spacewalk went nothing like the disastrous excursion portrayed in the new film Gravity. In July 1965, White’s short spacewalk provided ground work for Apollo astronauts to walk on the moon and future generations of space explorers to assemble the International Space Station. “…all these years later, there’s something about White’s space walk and, especially, about the wonderful color photographs of the endeavor made by Gemini 4 commander James McDivitt that stirs heady emotions in the viewer,” notes the Life retrospective. “There is awe at the unparalleled beauty of the blue Earth so far below, weaving its ancient, elliptical course through the heavens.”
A. From the Las Vegas Weekly: New film Gravity features excitement, risk of human space travel. Production about astronauts stranded by collision with space debris opens Friday.
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