Planet Mercury News: What’s Hiding in those Polar Shadows?
THE WOODLANDS, Texas – NASA’s MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging – long hand for the MESSENGER spacecraft – has provided surprising new looks at the planet Mercury. Details of MESSENGER’s findings are being presented this week here at...Giant Asteroid Vesta – Unexpected Details
THE WOODLANDS, TEXAS – New images and data highlight the diversity of Vesta’s surface and reveal unusual geologic features, some of which were never previously seen on asteroids. These results were detailed here today at the Lunar and Planetary Science...NASA’s WISE Mission Reveals Cosmic Surprises
A new portrait of the universe, 14 years in the making by NASA’s workhorse Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer space telescope, reveals a surprising half-billion celestial objects — some far and others quite close and potentially imposing. The $320...Video: Historical First Spacewalk
Here’s a retro-fire back into the space-time continuum. It was on this day, back on March 18, 1965, that the first spacewalk – or extravehicular activity (EVA) took place. Soviet cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov left his Voskhod 2 capsule and floated about for several minutes...“Earth Hour” Engages the Space Station
Mark March 31st on your calendar – the day that “Earth Hour” will extend to the International Space Station for the first time. European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut and World Wildlife Fund (WWF) ambassador, André Kuipers, will keep watch over planet Earth as lights...Mission to a Star: NASA’s Solar Probe Plus
Given all that recent solar storm activity that the Sun has been tossing at the Earth – it’s time for space researchers to hurl something toward the Sun! A Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) team is developing NASA’s Solar Probe Plus – a...Listen: Soundtrack of the Sun
Hear, Hear: What’s a Solar Storm Sound Like? A “sonification” of measurements taken during a solar storm is data taken from NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft at Mercury, as well as from NASA’s Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), which is about 1 million miles from...Book Review: The Elusive WOW – Searching for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
The Elusive WOW – Searching for Extraterrestrial Intelligence by Robert Gray; Palmer Square Press; Chicago, Illinois; $29.95 (hard cover); December 2011. Don’t let this book escape your radar screen. The author has put together a telling tale here of an incident in...On the Prowl for Asteroids: NASA Grant Upgrades Sky Survey
Newly upgraded eyes are going to be scoping out the heavens, on the prowl for asteroids that might cross the Earth’s path someday. NASA is awarding $4.1 million to the Catalina Sky Survey — or CSS — a University of Arizona-based program. The money will...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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