Clutter in the Cosmos – Tough Challenges Ahead in Removing Space Junk
ANAHEIM, California – Dealing with the messy facts of orbital debris circling the Earth is receiving the attention of researchers here at SPACE 2010, a major meeting of the American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). A look at how to deal with derelict...Hurricane Katrina: A NASA Satellite Video Retrospective
In early August 2005, Katrina was just a name. By September, it had become synonymous with the costliest and one of the deadliest tropical cyclones in U.S. history. Five years later, NASA is revisiting Hurricane Katrina with a short video that shows the storm as...First Satellite Measurement of Water Volume in Amazon Floodplain
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...Book Review: NASA’s First 50 Years – Historical Perspectives
Credit: NASA History Division NASA’s First 50 Years – Historical Perspectives by Steven Dick, editor; NASA Special Publication (SP-2010-4704); U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. ; (hard cover) ; $79.00; 2010 This impressive and scholarly volume is...NASA Joins Efforts to Rescue Turtles From Gulf Oil Spill Hazards
NASA, best known for launching rockets, has embraced new send off responsibilities, incubating dozens of sea turtle eggs rescued from the British Petroleum oil spill along the northern Gulf Coast and placing the hatchlings into the Atlantic from the protected...Lunar Eclipse from Space
Astronaut Doug Wheelock’s view of lunar eclipse. Photo credt: NASA International Space Station resident Doug Wheelock took this picture of the partial lunar eclipse on June 26. From his perch on the orbiting laboratory, Wheelock could see the shadow of the...NASA “Visualizers”: Giving the Public an Eye Full
Credit: NASA/SVS At NASA Goddard Space Flight Center’s Scientific Visualization Studio (SVS), a team of “visualizers” take raw scientific data and translate that data into visual imagery. The visuals help both scientists and the general public better understand the...Satellite imagery illustrates reach of Gulf oil spill
Source: Spaceflight Now A NASA spacecraft circling more than 400 miles above Earth has snapped a striking picture of oil streaming ashore in Mississippi, adding another photo to the growing catalog of satellite images of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. The Earth...Solving a problem isn’t sexy
Source: Florida Today Engineering doesn’t make good on-screen drama. You can’t tie a bow on a big engineering problem in an hour or two, unless you skip a lot of details, add some overly dramatic dialogue, and only show the “Aha!” moment when...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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