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...Comets Viewed as Breeding Ground for Life
Those wispy worlds of ice know as comets may be linked to kick-starting life on Earth. Experiments by chemists from the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Hawaii, Manoa, suggest that conditions in space are capable of creating complex dipeptides...Hunt for Exoplanet Atmospheres Intensifies
The count is impressive! The search for exoplanets — planets beyond our own solar system — has taken off over the last decade. A huge tip of the celestial hat goes to NASA’s Kepler mission that was launched in 2009. This mission, encompassing a 100-member...Earth from Space: Take a Look at our Home Planet
A new PBS NOVA TV special offers a revealing look at Planet Earth thanks to an armada of space-based assets. Earth from Space has been produced in extensive consultation with NASA scientists, making extensive use of data gleaned by Earth-observing satellites This...Asteroid Flyby of Earth: Experts Comment on Space Rock Close-call
The up-coming close flyby of asteroid DA14 is stirring up considerable attention. On Friday, Feb. 15, the 50-meter-wide asteroid DA14 will pass within 17,000 miles of Earth, closer than a typical communications satellite. This space rock, if it were to impact our...Video Explores Overview Effect – Astronaut Perspectives of Earth and Space
The “Overview Effect” was first described by author Frank White in 1987 – an experience that transforms astronauts’ perspective of the planet and humankind’s place upon it. A recently released short film — ‘Overview’ explores this phenomenon through...Space Rock Flyby of Earth: Radar Images of Asteroid Toutatis
A crack team of planetary radar specialists at NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory snagged a sequence of images of asteroid Toutatis as it whisked by the Earth December 12th. An observing campaign of the space rock was carried out at the Goldstone facility in California....Take a Look: Asteroid Flyby of Earth
Potentially hazardous asteroid Toutatis, an asteroid with an estimated diameter of over 3 miles (5.4 km), will make its close approach to Earth this week. Slooh Space Camera will cover its near-approach on Tuesday, December 11th, with several live shows on Slooh.com,...Earth Movie Shows Spread of Humanity
The night side of Earth twinkles with light, and the first thing to stand out is the cities. “Nothing tells us more about the spread of humans across the Earth than city lights,” asserts Chris Elvidge, a NOAA scientist who has studied this specialized imagery for 20...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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