How to Put Humans on Mars?: BBC/Imperial College London Explore Challenges
A team of academics from Imperial College London have blueprinted a concept on how best to place a trio of space travelers on the surface of the red planet. The mock mission to Mars is to be showcased on a special five-part program carried by the BBC. The researchers...NASA’s Curiosity Rover on Mars: On a Roll!
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has issued a map showing the route driven by the rover Curiosity through the 342 Martian day, or sol, as of July 21, 2013. Shown in the map, the numbering of the dots along the line indicates the sol number of each drive. North is up....From a Distance!
Two spacecraft have managed to snag images of our Earth and the Moon, but from far, far away. NASA’s MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) orbiter circling Mercury took the image July 19 as part of a campaign to search for natural...Mercury Orbiter to Eye the Earth, Look for Moons
NASA’s MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft will capture images of Earth on July 19 and 20. The images on the second day will also include pictures of the Moon where all six of the Apollo landing sites will be...The Day the Earth Smiled
Space is about to become a giant photo booth. This coming week, step outside and get your picture taken. It’s a “long shot” that’s for sure…but the camera is adjusted to infinity. On July 19, the Cassini spacecraft that’s now in orbit around Saturn will be positioned...Pluto-bound Spacecraft Spots Charon
NASA’s Pluto-bound New Horizons spacecraft has spotted the ice-covered moon, Charon. The largest of Pluto’s five known moons, Charon orbits about 12,000 miles (more than 19,000 kilometers) away from Pluto itself. New Horizons spacecraft used its highest-resolution...Book Review: Round About the Earth – Circumnavigation from Magellan to Orbit
Round About the Earth – Circumnavigation from Magellan to Orbit by Joyce E. Chaplin; Simon & Schuster; New York, New York; $35.00; 2012. This is a fascinating and pleasurable look at explorers that have accomplished around-the-world travel. For almost five...FY-Eye: NASA’s Image Detective System!
A creative new website is available from NASA that can help improve your own feature-spotting skills and geographical knowledge about our planet – a plus in readying yourself for your own space tourism flight in Earth orbit. Meanwhile, you can also help the Crew Earth...New Estimate: Billions and Billions of Life-supporting Planets
The projected number of life-supporting planets in the Milky Way galaxy alone just got larger. A new study calculates that 60 billion planets could sustain water, therefore life. Researchers at the University of Chicago and Northwestern University based their study,...Space Talk
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#NASA estimates that a human mission to Mars could take months or years with current propulsion technologies. To accelerate this timeline, NASA and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) are exploring nuclear thermal propulsion.
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.@NASA_Langley is testing the Lightweight Surface Manipulation System AutoNomy capabilities Development for Surface Operations (LANDO), a robotic arm designed to lift payloads and place them on the #lunar surface.
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