Comet Flyby Yields New Science Twists…and a Mystery
Visited last fall by NASA’s Deep Impact spacecraft during its EPOXI mission was comet Hartley 2. Scientists have published their findings about the flyby – offering some new twists to the encounter of a cometary kind. On its EPOXI mission the Deep Impact spacecraft...Next Mars Rover Prepared For First Step to the Red Planet
NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission is being readied for a fall 2011 liftoff from Florida. Preparations are in full-swing on readying the MSL Curiosity rover for its red planet mission. Plans now call for the Curiosity robot and its descent stage to be...SpaceShipTwo Scores Another Glide Test!
Another glide flight of the SpaceShipTwo took place today at the Mojave Air and Space Port in California. Today’s high-altitude drop from the carrier airplane – WhiteKnightTwo – was the eleventh glide flight for the SpaceShipTwo. Onboard the vessel, putting the...Opportunity Mars Rover Inches Toward Next Target
NASA’s Opportunity Mars rover is rolling its way toward Endeavour crater, eyeing the western rim of the huge feature as seen in new imagery. Endeavour crater has a diameter of about 14 miles (22 kilometers). Scientists are expecting the robot to gain access to...NASA’s Dawn Spacecraft: “Moment of Truth Is About to Arrive”
NASA’s Dawn mission was launched in September 2007. The spacecraft is now approaching Vesta, a protoplanet that is currently some 143 million miles from Earth. Powered by an ion engine, Dawn will arrive at Vesta next month. Starting in September, the spacecraft will...Book Review: Martian Summer – Robot Arms, Cowboy Spacemen, and My 90 Days with the Phoenix Mars Mission
Martian Summer – Robot Arms, Cowboy Spacemen, and My 90 Days with the Phoenix Mars Mission by Andrew Kessler; Pegasus Books; New York, New York; $27.95 (Hardcover); April 2011. NASA’s Phoenix Mars lander was a milestone in red planet probing. Touching down on Mars on...China’s Moon Orbiter – Headed For New Destination
Chinese space officials have announced that their second lunar orbiter – Chang’e-2 – has departed the Moon and is headed for deep space. Making use of leftover propellant, the spacecraft will reportedly carry out additional exploratory tasks. According to the Xinhua...Voyager Spacecraft Data Yields Surprising Find
Voyager Spacecraft Data: New Findings. Credit: NASA/JPL A new computer model of the solar system based on data gathered by NASA’s enduring Voyager space probes indicates that the edge of the solar system — the heliosheath — is not smooth. Rather, it is...Next Mars Rover Readied for Action – But Where Will It Land?
Nuclear-powered Mars rover, Curiosity, is expected to open up a new arm of red planet research. Credit: NASA/JPL NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory is named Curiosity. And if you are curious about where Curiosity is going to land on the red planet, stay tuned. The final...Space Talk
¡Bienvenidos a la última ronda de este torneo!
Impresionantemente, blast man llegó a la final, derrotando a metal man!
Ahora, ¿tendrá la misma suerte con nuestra querida y adorada splash woman?
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A failed memory chip, no free space big enough for the code, and 22.5 hours for every command to arrive. Full story on Hard Limits Lab. Images: NASA/JPL-Caltech. #Voyager1 #NASA #Shorts
🚀 The day a rocket came back home.
On December 21, 2015, SpaceX landed a Falcon 9 booster upright at Cape Canaveral after launching satellites into orbit, something no orbital rocket had done before. It changed the cost of reaching space.
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HiRISE 3D: A Small Channel
The objective of this observation is to examine a small channel on the wall of an old impact crater. The scene is also visible in Context Camera image data.
https://www.uahirise.org/anaglyph/ESP_093931_2185_ESP_094010_2185_RED
NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona
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