Wanted! Your Name for Journey to Mars
Want to go along for the ride aboard NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) mission? Here’s a way without packing your bags. The MAVEN Mars orbiter is being groomed for liftoff in November, 2013. It will carry with it selected art and haiku entries from...Satellite Imagery Used to Show Earth’s “Hotspots” and “Hopespots”
The United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) and Bella Gaia are launching a short film titled Hotspots to Hopespots – a multimedia presentation of scientific data and images on the planet’s changing environment. As changes to ecosystems and the...How to Put Humans on Mars?: BBC/Imperial College London Explore Challenges
A team of academics from Imperial College London have blueprinted a concept on how best to place a trio of space travelers on the surface of the red planet. The mock mission to Mars is to be showcased on a special five-part program carried by the BBC. The researchers...FY-Eye: NASA’s Image Detective System!
A creative new website is available from NASA that can help improve your own feature-spotting skills and geographical knowledge about our planet – a plus in readying yourself for your own space tourism flight in Earth orbit. Meanwhile, you can also help the Crew Earth...All Aboard for Mars! Submit Your Name Campaign
If you want to be outbound and onboard NASA’s next mission to Mars – better hurry. NASA is inviting members of the public to submit their names and a personal message online for a DVD to be carried aboard a spacecraft that will study the Martian upper atmosphere. The...All Aboard! Send Your Name, Message to an Asteroid
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is preparing for launch its Hayabusa2 spacecraft – set to depart in 2014 then land on an asteroid in 2018. Then the mission will return samples of the space rock back to Earth in 2020. JAXA has opened up a Haybusa2 name...Lights Out! Observe Earth Hour
At 8:30 p.m. today (your local time), many people, organizations and landmarks around the world will observe Earth Hour by turning off their lights for an hour to raise awareness regarding climate change and our planet’s sustainability. From the Empire State Building...Mars Target: Mount Sharp
NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity has clicked away to create a panoramic view of Mount Sharp. The lower slopes of Mount Sharp are the major destination for the wheeled robot. A mosaic of images from the Mast Camera (Mastcam) on Curiosity shows Mount Sharp in a...Rock Solid Idea for Deflecting a Killer Asteroid?
If an asteroid has Earth’s name on it, how best to deflect such an incoming menace? A spurt of special spray paint is the possible answer from Dave Hyland, professor of physics and astronomy and also a faculty member in the aerospace engineering department at Texas...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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