Dec 19, 2013 | Benefits of Space Exploration, Blog, Education Station, Exploration, International Cooperation, Kids Space, MESSENGER, NASA, Our Solar System, Space and Science
Hellish Mercury may not be as tranquil as “Strawberry Fields Forever” but that song’s creator, the late Beatle, John Lennon, and the Sun-baked world are now tied together. Crater Lennon is one of ten impact craters on the planet Mercury that have been assigned names...
Dec 11, 2013 | Blog, Book Reviews, Education Station, European Space Agency, Exploration, Kids Space, Mars, MESSENGER, NASA, Our Solar System, Planet Earth, Space and Science, The Moon, Why Space
Alien Seas – Oceans in Space by Michael Carroll, Rosaly Lopes (Editors); Springer, New York; $29.99 (hardcover); 2013. Thanks to the editors for this captivating “wet look” at an under-appreciated aspect of planets and moons in our celestial neighborhood – those “seas...
Jan 9, 2012 | Ask the Expert, Asteroid Exploration, Blog, Book Reviews, Comets, Education Station, European Space Agency, Exploration, International Cooperation, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Kids Space, MESSENGER, NASA, Our Solar System, Space and Science, Space Research, The Moon, The Sun
Fifty Years on the Space Frontier: Halo Orbits, Comets, Asteroids, and More by Robert W. Farquhar; Outskirts Press, Inc., Denver, Colorado; (hard cover); $32.36; 2011 There is renewed and growing interest in imaginative use of L-points in space – special spots in...
Oct 5, 2011 | Blog, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, MESSENGER, NASA, Our Solar System, Space and Science
NASA’s MESSENGER (MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging) spacecraft entered orbit about Mercury in mid-March. The probe’s one-year study of Mercury that is now underway is providing exciting science. After its first Mercury solar day (176 Earth...
May 8, 2011 | Blog, Education Station, Exploration, MESSENGER, NASA, Our Solar System, Space and Science, The Sun
Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington NASA’s MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft circling the planet Mercury has chalked up its 100th orbit. That milestone...
Mar 26, 2011 | Blog, Education Station, Exploration, Kids Space, MESSENGER, NASA, Our Solar System, Space and Science
Artist captures NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft in orbit around the planet Mercury. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft is the first spacecraft ever to enter Mercury’s...