Jan 6, 2011 | Blog, Education Station, Exploration, NASA, Our Solar System, Space and Science
In the fast-moving world of worry about rocks from space that are harmful to Earth, there’s growing support for putting in place a space-based near Earth object (NEO) hunter capability. One idea that is percolating in scientific circles is placement of an infrared...
Jan 4, 2011 | Blog, Book Reviews, Education Station, Exploration, Hubble Space Telescope, International Space Station, Kids Space, Mars, NASA, Our Solar System, Planet Earth, Space and Science, Space Shuttle, The Moon, The Sun, Why Space
Space – From Earth to the Edge of the Universe by editors Carole Stott, Robert Dinwiddie, David Hughes and Giles Sparrow; Dorling Kindersley(DK) Publishing; New York, New York; $40.00 (hard cover); 2010. Space is big…but so is this large format book. This is a...
Jan 3, 2011 | Blog, Education Station, Exploration, Mars, NASA, Space and Science
NASA’s always on the go Opportunity Mars rover is inspecting Santa Maria crater – providing new imagery showing the geology of the relatively fresh feature. Scientists are delighted with the new photos that show outcrop exposures at the crater’s rim. Santa Maria...
Dec 27, 2010 | Ask the Expert, Blog, Education Station, Exploration, International Cooperation, NASA, Our Solar System, Space and Science
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft orbiting Saturn has imaged a huge storm – a raging event on the massive planet. “Just down on the ground today … our cameras on Cassini have captured sight of a gigantic storm recently erupted in the northern hemisphere of Saturn,”...
Dec 26, 2010 | Ask the Expert, Blog, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, Mars, NASA, Space and Science
NASA’s Opportunity Mars rover is busy examining Santa Maria crater within Meridiani Planum. The wheeled robot is inspecting the relatively fresh and large crater that’s about 312 feet (95 meters) in diameter. “We’ve been doing a lot of imaging of it from a set of...
Dec 25, 2010 | Ask the Expert, Blog, Book Reviews, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, Space and Science, Space Research
Confronting Space Debris – Strategies and Warnings from Comparable Examples Including Deepwater Horizon by Dave Baiocchi and William Welser IV; RAND Corporation; Santa Monica, California; $21.60 (paperback/special web discount); 2010. This is an absorbing and...
Dec 24, 2010 | Blog, Education Station, Exploration, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Kids Space, Our Solar System
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has received financial backing to proceed on development of Hayabusa 2 – a spacecraft designed to collect samples of asteroid 1999JU3. The Hayabusa 2 is a follow-on probe to Hayabusa 1 that surveyed asteroid Itokowa in...
Dec 21, 2010 | Ask the Expert, Blog, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, NASA, Our Solar System, Planet Earth, Space and Science
A team of newly arrived rock hounds are on the ice! They are researchers taking part in the Antarctic Search for Meteorites (ANSMET) program. Their job during the 2010-2011 field season is to recover meteorite samples from the Antarctic. ANSMET field work has been...
Dec 17, 2010 | Education, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, NASA, Newsroom, The Moon, Why Space
Let your fingers do the moonwalking – and pick the U.S. Postal Office’s Moon Landing stamp! The federal post office agency wants help on selecting an iconic stamp to represent the USA in an upcoming international gallery being built – and on the list is the classic...
Dec 17, 2010 | Blog, Education Station, Exploration, NASA, Our Solar System
In just about 90 days, NASA’s MESSENGER will execute a 15-minute maneuver. That propulsion burn – slated for March 18, 2011– will nudge the spacecraft into orbit about Mercury – the first craft ever to do so. Once in orbit, MESSENGER will start a one-year...