Book Review: Trailblazing Mars – NASA’s Next Giant Leap
Trailblazing Mars – NASA’s Next Giant Leap by Pat Duggins; University Press of Florida; Gainesville, Florida; $24.95 (hard cover); 2010. The distant reddish hue of Mars in the night sky is a magnet for exploration. Eye-catching glimpses of the red planet were first...CubeSat Canopy Experiment: Dealing with Interplanetary Flyspecks
Tiny, hold in your hand satellites, are dubbed CubeSats. They hitch rides on boosters carrying larger satellites. CubeSats can conduct all types of experiments, from Earth remote sensing to monitoring the space environment. According to Stanford news writer, Louis...Our Planet – Art Work Captured by Satellites
Earth never looked so good! Thanks to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), a space-based look back on our piece of celestial real estate offers an art-filled eye-full. The USGS has unveiled “Earth as Art3” – a collection of the latest set of NASA Landsat satellite...Japan’s Hayabusa Probe Reportedly Contains Particles from Asteroid
A sample container from Japan’s Hayabusa spacecraft that returned from its seven year round-trip to asteroid Itokawa earlier this year reportedly does contain particles from the space rock. According to several press reports, an analysis of some 1,500 particles found...Beyond Low Earth Orbit: Gateway Space Facility Proposed
A study team, comprised of NASA, university and research institute planners, has taken a dedicated look at a flexible path to multiple destinations in space. The focus of the group is to evaluate concepts for post-International Space Station (ISS) space habitation...Milky Way Hosts Stunning Gamma Ray Features
Astronomers using the Fermi Gamma-ray Telescope have discovered a pair of globe-like features at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy. Though their origin is unknown, the two near identical globes that extend 25,000 light years north and south of the galactic center...Pluto-Bound and Beyond: A Toast to New Horizons
NASA’s New Horizons is more than half-way to an encounter with distant Pluto. Launched in January 2006, the spacecraft today enters its next wakeup period from hibernation. According to New Horizon’s principal investigator, Alan Stern, the main purpose of the 10-day...Opportunity Mars Rover – Rolling, Rolling, Rolling
NASA’s Opportunity rover continues on its red planet travels, completing early this month a week of driving. The robot is making its way toward Endeavour crater. Camera shots from the rover show this feature in ever-greater detail as it drives closer and closer. En...Book Review: Surveyor: Lunar Exploration Program – The NASA Mission Reports
Surveyor: Lunar Exploration Program – The NASA Mission Reports Edited and compiled by Robert Godwin; Apogee Books; Burlington, Ontario Canada; $17.95 (soft cover); 2010. All too often, in our forward plunge into deep space, we forget the legacy projects of achievement...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
