Book Review: Drifting on Alien Winds – Exploring the Skies and Weather of Other Worlds
Drifting on Alien Winds – Exploring the Skies and Weather of Other Worlds by Michael Carroll; Springer Science + Business Media, LLC, New York: $39.95 (Hardcover); 2011. From the creative and artistic mind of Michael Carroll comes an original and fact-filled look at...New Weather, Climate Studies Mission Launches
The $1.5 billion NPOESS Preparatory Project mission was off to a successful start early Friday, as a Delta II rocket carrying the spacecraft and five new instruments designed to improve weather forecasting and climate change studies lifted off from Vandenberg...Spitzer Telescope Spots Echo of Violent Early Solar System Activity
NASA’s Spitzer space telescope has unveiled what may be a “nearby” replay of the same violent processes that unfolded in our own solar system billions of years ago. Imagery from the infrared observatory has spotted a stream of comets raining down on...Pick of the Crop! Space Farm 7 Corn Maze Contest
It is being called the newest form of “agritainment”. In a special outreach titled Space Farm 7, seven of the nation’s top agritourism farms have been selected to celebrate and honor the U.S. space program in collaboration with NASA this fall. Each farm has planted...New Evidence Suggests Kuiper Belt Comets Provided Water for Earth’s Oceans
Scientists have compelling new evidence the Earth’s oceans formed from the impact of comets during the early years of the solar system, and quite likely a specific class of the icy objects from a region known as the Kuiper Belt Tenants of the Kuiper Belt...Scream In Space? Smartphone Apps to Run on Satellite
How to test the theory ‘in space no one can hear you scream’ – made popular in the 1979 film ‘Alien’? Space technology experts from Surrey Satellite Technology (SSTL) and the Surrey Space Centre (SSC) at the University of Surrey have announced the winners of a...NASA Satellite Re-entry: The Fall of UARS (Updated)
Note: Go to: http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/591662main_UARS%20Map.pdf NASA UPDATE: Sat, 24 Sep 2011 09:37:25 AM MDT NASA’s decommissioned Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite fell back to Earth between 11:23 p.m. EDT Friday, Sept. 23 and 1:09 a.m. EDT Sept. 24. The...NASA’s WISE Mission Addresses Dinosaur Extinction
Scientists involved in NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE , mission may have cleared a suspect in what is perhaps one of the Earth’s greatest mysteries. What was the source of the giant asteroid that smacked into the Earth 65...NASA Satellite: Re-entry Update
NASA’s Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite, or UARS, is expected to re-enter later this month. According to a NASA-posted UARS update, as of Sept. 12th, the orbit of UARS was 145 mi by 165 mi (235 km by 265 km). Re-entry is expected during the last week of September,...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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