Aug 12, 2010 | Ask the Expert, Blog, Education Station, Exploration, Hubble Space Telescope, International Cooperation, NASA, Space and Science, Space Research, Why Space
What does a Canadian mine more than a mile underground have to do with dark matter in the universe? This month, scientists are putting in place a bubble chamber in the Canadian mine – part of the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) in Ontario, Canada. Scientists...
Aug 10, 2010 | International Space Station, NASA
The International Space Station’s mission management team signed off Tuesday on two new spacewalks by NASA astronauts Doug Wheelock and Tracy Caldwell Dyson in their bid to recover a vital external cooling system. The first of the two six to seven hour excursions is...
Aug 8, 2010 | Ask the Expert, Blog, Education Station, European Space Agency, Exploration, International Cooperation, Mars, NASA, Our Solar System, Space and Science
The icy face of Jupiter’s Europa. A site for life? Credit: NASA What might be waiting for discovery at the frost-covered ground at the poles of Mars? What about on the icy bodies in our Solar System, such as Jupiter’s Europa? Those are cool questions. And to...
Aug 8, 2010 | European Space Agency, International Space Station, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), NASA
Spacewalking astronauts Doug Wheelock and Tracy Caldwell Dyson wrestled with balky fluid lines and leaking ammonia on Saturday as they began a series of excursions to replace a failed cooling system pump outside the International Space Station. Saturday’s spacewalk...
Aug 7, 2010 | Blog, Commercial Space, Education Station, Exploration, NASA, Space and Science, Space Race, The Moon
Private lunar rover. Courtesy Astrobotic Technology NASA has made an offer to buy data provided via commercial lunar landers. The space agency announcement falls under its Innovative Lunar Demonstrations Data (ILDD) program, an initiative with a total budget of $30...
Aug 6, 2010 | Blog, Education Station, Exploration, International Cooperation, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), NASA, Planet Earth, Space and Science, Space Shuttle
The Amazon is the largest drainage basin in the world. And for the first time – thanks to satellites — scientists have been able to measure the amount of water that rises and falls annually in the Amazon River floodplain. An international squadron of...
Aug 6, 2010 | Blog, Education Station, Exploration, Mars, NASA, Space Research, The Moon
On the move…ATHLETE robot wheels into the future. Credit: NASA/JPL Sure, athletes are always in workout mode. But what about a robot? Check out the moves of the All-Terrain Hex-Limbed Extra-Terrestrial Explorer – short named: ATHLETE Under development at...
Aug 5, 2010 | International Cooperation, International Space Station, NASA
International Space Station mission managers decided Thursday to wait until Saturday for the first of two spacewalks to repair the orbiting laboratory’s cooling system, which was hobbled by an electrical short in an external pump module assembly on July 31. The...
Aug 4, 2010 | International Space Station, NASA, Uncategorized
Two NASA astronauts expect to repair the external cooling system aboard the International Space Station with a pair of upcoming spacewalks, following a serious malfunction late on July 31. The first spacewalk by Doug Wheelock and Tracy Caldwell Dyson to replace a...
Aug 4, 2010 | Blog, Education Station, Exploration, NASA, Our Solar System, Space and Science, The Moon
Something old, something new! Photo comparison courtesy NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center/Arizona State University. Earth’s crater-pocked old Moon sports a new feature. Thanks to the high-power imaging system – the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera, or LROC for...