Dec 5, 2013 | Ask the Expert, Blog, Education Station, Exploration, International Cooperation, Kids Space, Mars, NASA, Space and Science
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has surpassed 100,000 zaps of its ChemCam laser instrument. ChemCam zaps rocks with a high-powered laser to determine their composition and carries a camera that can survey the Martian landscape. The ChemCam concept was developed at Los...
Dec 5, 2013 | Blog, Coalition News, CSExtra, Newsroom
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Dec 4, 2013 | Blog, Comets, Education Station, European Space Agency, Exploration, International Cooperation, Kids Space, Our Solar System, Space and Science
Rosetta, Europe’s comet chaser is about to get a wake-up call. Early next year — on January 20th — the European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft will yawn to life from its 957-day hibernation. For the outbound probe, it’s the beginning of an eventful...
Dec 4, 2013 | Blog, Coalition News, CSExtra, Newsroom
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Dec 3, 2013 | Ask the Experts — Answers, Benefits of Space Exploration, Blog, Education Station, Exploration, International Space Station, Kids Space, Multimedia, NASA, Space Research, Why Space
Origami is a source of inspiration for mechanical engineering students who are working with NASA/JPL, the National Science Foundation, and origami master Robert Lang to design novel mechanisms for use in space and in other applications. Brigham Young University (BYU)...
Dec 3, 2013 | Blog, Coalition News, CSExtra, Newsroom
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Dec 2, 2013 | Blog, Coalition News, CSExtra, Newsroom
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Nov 30, 2013 | Blog, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, Mars, NASA, Uncategorized
NASA’s Curiosity rover on Mars is busy surveying its surroundings. The rover is driving from a flatter area where it worked for several months after landing in 2012 to the slopes of a mountain 3 miles (5 kilometers) high, Mount Sharp. Pressing forward, Curiosity is...
Nov 27, 2013 | Blog, Coalition News, CSExtra, Newsroom
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Nov 26, 2013 | Blog, China, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, The Moon
On Mars there’s Curiosity, Spirit and Opportunity – veteran NASA robot rovers of the Red Planet. But add a new mobile robot’s name to the space exploration history books. According to China’s Xinhua news agency, the “Yutu” or Jade Rabbit is the name for the country’s...