Update: European Spacecraft – Up-close Asteroid Images
New close-in image of Rosetta’s target. Credit: ESA The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Rosetta spacecraft has provided an excellent close-up view of the asteroid 21 Lutetia. Scientists are excited about the spacecraft flyby – pushing forward on...New! First Imagery of Asteroid 21 Lutetia
The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Rosetta spacecraft has zoomed by asteroid 21 Lutetia today. The first images have reached the ground from the spacecraft. The event marks the largest asteroid ever visited by a space probe. More imagery relayed from Rosetta to Earth...On Target: Asteroid Encounter!
The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Rosetta spacecraft is on track to zoom past asteroid 21 Lutetia on July 10. The event marks the largest asteroid ever visited by a space probe. Will it look anything like this artist’s sketch? Asteroid Lutetia is a major...Rover Opportunity has Endeavour Crater in View
Scientists are assigning names to major features of the massive Martian impact crater Endeavour, that is the long-term destination of NASA’s Opportunity Mars Exploration Rover. The names — Cape Dromedary, Point Hicks and Cape Byron — pay tribute to...European Probe Ready for Asteroid Encounter
Expect the unexpected. That’s likely to be the case on July 10 as the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Rosetta spacecraft encounters asteroid Lutetia. The spacecraft will whisk by the object, studying it with a bevy of scientific instruments. Lutetia will be the second...New Findings Suggest Mars Was Once Globally Suitable for Life
The evidence comes from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and the European Space Agency’s Mars Express. MRO has been circling the Red Planet since March 2006, Mars Express since December 2003. The conclusions, which suggest ancient Mars hosted an...Venus: Once a Water World?
In Europe, scientists have found evidence that searing Venus may once have been a water world, perhaps suitable for life. Their speculation is based on findings from the European Space Agency’s Venus Express, a spacecraft mission launched in November 2005 for...Emmy Goes to NASA’s Bernoulli’s Principle
This award winning educational feature was filmed aboard the International Space Station, featuring European Space Agency astronaut Frank DeWinne of Belgium and Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. Bernoulli’s Principle, an episode of the...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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