Rim Shots! Mars Rover Examines Fresh Crater
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...Participate in Worldwide Space Station Wave Campaign
Wave to the U. S., European and Russian astronauts living and working aboard the International Space Station this week through a global campaign organized by www.isswave.org. The web site offers five different ways to find out when and where to look in the...Meteorite Hunters: On the Ice!
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...Wanted! Stamp of Approval for Moon Landing Postal Stamp
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...American, Russian and Italian Dock with International Space Station
A multi-national crew of astronauts docked with the International Space Station on Friday, restoring the number of men and woman living aboard the orbiting laboratory to six. NASA’s Catherine Coleman, Dmitry Kondratyev of Russia and European Space Agency...NASA’s Mercury Mission: En Route to the “Promised Land”
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...Citizen Call: Join the Planet Hunters
Dive in on data gleaned by NASA’s Kepler mission – on the lookout for planets beyond our own solar system – and help professional astronomers in their search for Earth-like planet. Web users around the globe can join a new online citizen science project. The effort is...Ascent: You Tube Tribute to the Space Shuttle Program
An extraordinary and must-see You Tube video is Ascent, a 45-minute tour-de-force that brings to sharp focus the intricacies of a shuttle liftoff. Created at the NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio, the video was produced by space agency aerospace engineer,...New Software Tool: Online Exploration of the Sun
See the Sun like never before – and no shades needed! A new software tool is available from the European Space Agency (ESA), allowing online lookers to view the entire library of imagery from the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO). SOHO is a project of...Space Talk
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Once upon a time...
NASA researchers developed a mission to study the invisible, doughnut-shaped pen around Earth called the ring current. This is no fairy tale! The STORIE mission is launching to the @Space_Station this month to study the ring current.
https://go.nasa.gov/4ndkWmd
Once upon a time...
NASA researchers developed a mission to study the invisible, doughnut-shaped pen around Earth called the ring current. This is no fairy tale! The STORIE mission is launching to the @Space_Station this month to study the ring current.
https://go.nasa.gov/4ndkWmd
Even galaxies get bloated.
Called A2261-BCG, the brightest galaxy seen near image-center is home to a puffy core, rather than a peak of light around a central black hole.
In fact, at 10,000 light-years across, the core is one of the largest ever seen: https://go.nasa.gov/4cT8ODB
