New Info: Mars Rock Mystery
It’s a bit of a detective story. NASA’s Opportunity Mars rover imagery shows a rock materializing in a spot where it wasn’t seen in earlier imagery. How’d it get there? Mars Exploration Rover (MER) scientists have dubbed the object “Pinnacle Island.” One view is that...NASA Spacecraft Dodge Chinese Debris
It was seven years ago this month that China purposely destroyed its own Fengyun-1C meteorological-monitoring spacecraft via a Chinese anti-satellite (ASAT) weapon. That January 11, 2007 event represents the worst single debris contamination of low Earth orbit. NASA’s...Video: International Space Exploration Forum Focuses on Global Cooperation
The United States hosted the International Space Exploration Forum (ISEF), the first-ever ministerial-level meeting to build support for global cooperation in space exploration, at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C. on January 9, 2014. ISEF brought...Eyes to the Skies! Starkey the Space Elf
Check out your “app”titude this holiday! Orbit Logic has announced that their SpyMeSat iPhone app is now keeping track of Santa’s helper – Starkey the Space Elf – who travels through space helping Santa make sure children are on their best behavior! The SpyMeSat app...Mars One Details 2018 Plan
Mars One — a not-for-profit foundation established to plant a permanent human settlement on Mars — has secured lead suppliers for its first mission to Mars. The mission, slated for a 2018 launch, will include a robotic lander and a communications...Zap Patrol on Mars
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has surpassed 100,000 zaps of its ChemCam laser instrument. ChemCam zaps rocks with a high-powered laser to determine their composition and carries a camera that can survey the Martian landscape. The ChemCam concept was developed at Los...New Agreement on Asteroid Detection
NASA and Planetary Resources Inc., of Bellevue, Wash., are partnering to develop crowd-sourced software solutions to enhance detection of near-Earth objects using agency-funded data. The agreement is NASA’s first partnership associated with the agency’s...Close Encounters: Spacecraft Orbiting Mercury Spots Two Comets
NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft is orbiting Mercury and has been able to snag images of two comets: 2P/Encke and C/2012 S1 (ISON. Later this month, both of these comets will be substantially brighter and much closer to Mercury and the Sun. MESSENGER has been poised for...Mars Moon, Phobos, May Hold Red Planet Materials
A new study has calculated how the Martian moon, Phobos, may be peppered with material from Mars itself. Therefore, a planned Russian mission to return a sample from the Martian moon Phobos will likely be a twofer. Work by James Head, professor of geological sciences...Space Talk
Take a look at Jupiter đź‘€
This view, observed by NASA’s Juno spacecraft, is impossible to see from Earth, even with a telescope. Since Jupiter’s orbit is outside of Earth’s, we only see the side fully illuminated by the Sun. Spacecraft like Juno allow us to see it in a new
Colors of the aurora: Red, green, purple… black? 🤔
Mysterious “black auroras” are real, and they’re not like the northern and southern lights you’ve seen before. Inside these dark spots, strange physics is at work — and a NASA rocket just launched from Alaska to reveal it. 🚀
NASA teams successfully fueled the Artemis II rocket during tonight’s prelaunch test for the lunar mission.
Our Artemis experts will answer questions about the important milestone and next steps during a briefing tomorrow at 11am ET (1600 UTC). https://go.nasa.gov/4aLGctK
NASA teams successfully fueled the Artemis II rocket during tonight’s prelaunch test for the lunar mission.
Our Artemis experts will answer questions about the important milestone and next steps during a briefing tomorrow at 11am ET (1600 UTC). https://go.nasa.gov/4aLGctK