Nov 19, 2010 | Blog, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, NASA, Space and Science
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...
Nov 16, 2010 | Blog, Education Station, Exploration, NASA, Planet Earth, Space and Science, Why Space
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...
Nov 16, 2010 | Blog, Education Station, Exploration, International Cooperation, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), NASA, Our Solar System, Space and Science
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...
Nov 11, 2010 | Exploration, Hubble Space Telescope, International Cooperation, Space and Science
NASA faces new cost and potential political challenges over the future of the James Webb Space Telescope, the highly touted successor to the Hubble Space Telescope whose price tag has soared to $6.5 billion. A joint effort led by the U. S. with participation from...
Nov 9, 2010 | Ask the Expert, Blog, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, NASA, Our Solar System, Space and Science
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...
Nov 8, 2010 | Blog, Education Station, Exploration, Mars, NASA, Space and Science
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...
Nov 6, 2010 | Ask the Expert, Blog, Education Station, Exploration, International Cooperation, Planet Earth, Space and Science
Researchers based in 6 continents, 13 countries and 19 research institutes are coordinating a series of observations of several nearby stars – on the listen and lookout mode for signs of extraterrestrial intelligence. The quest is dubbed Project Dorothy, named after...
Nov 4, 2010 | Blog, Education Station, Exploration, NASA, Our Solar System, Space and Science
NASA’s EPOXI mission has flown by comet Hartley 2 today, producing staggering images of the object. “This is a day that scientists live for,” said JPL scientist, Don Yeomans, an asteroid and comet expert. More than one jet was caught shooting out from the comet, he...
Nov 3, 2010 | Blog, Education, Education Station, Exploration, NASA, Space and Science
Source: Houston Chron We must prepare children for careers of innovation Math, science studies are essential to success After nearly seven days aboard space shuttle Discovery, orbiting the Earth at 18,000 miles per hour and circling the globe every 90 minutes, I was...
Nov 3, 2010 | Ask the Expert, Blog, Education Station, Exploration, International Cooperation, NASA, Our Solar System, Planet Earth, Space and Science, Why Space
If you’re concerned about incoming asteroids smacking into the Earth, now you can calculate ahead of time the calamity a comet or space rock would cause if it hit our home planet. Researchers at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana have unveiled Impact:...