August 6th, 2015
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NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has reached its third anniversary of landing in Gale crater. “It’s been a great three years, full of a number of important science discoveries,” observes Lauren Edgar, a research geologist at the USGS Astrogeology Science Center in Flagstaff, Arizona and a member of the Mars Science Lab’s science team. Edgar said […]
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A NASA camera — the Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) — aboard the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite has captured a unique view of the Moon as it moved in front of the sunlit side of Earth last month. The series of test images shows the fully illuminated “dark side” of the moon that […]
Indie Galactic Space Jam is going to be held on August 13th-16th in Florida. Thursday’s opening is being held at the Orlando Science Center, and Friday through Sunday is at the Melrose Center. “Our goal is to bring together people from various creative and technical fields to develop fun games that generate excitement among the […]
An asteroid mission is undergoing final checkout for next year’s liftoff that kick-starts a 7-year roundtrip trek to become the first U.S. mission to haul back to Earth samples of a space rock. NASA’s Origins-Spectral Interpretation-Resource Identification-Security-Regolith Explorer, or OSIRIS-REx, is progressing through Assembly, Test, and Launch Operations (ATLO) at Lockheed Martin’s […]
Operators of the NASA Curiosity rover on Mars are pleased to report that drilling into “Buckskin” was successful. Over the weekend, the plan called for more robotic arm activities, including transferring the sample to the scoop for inspection. But first, the ChemCam remote micro-imager (RMI) has taken pictures of the new drill hole and Mastcam […]
The space elevator, travel to Mars, futuristic spacecraft propulsion systems. If you want to travel “above and beyond” you’ll be interested in a new interactive flight exhibition – one that just launched on a multi-city tour to major science centers and air-and-space museums worldwide. Explored through five key themes that define flight and space travel […]
The first Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) telescope is now in operation on Haleakala – on the Hawaiian Island of Maui. ATLAS is an asteroid impact early warning system being developed by the University of Hawaii and funded by NASA. When ATLAS is completed in 2015, it will consist of two telescopes, 100 miles […]
The U.S. House of Representatives’ Committee on Science, Space, and Technology held a hearing earlier this week, making use of a panel of experts to review space exploration of other worlds, today and in the future. Held July 28, the purpose of the hearing was to review recent NASA achievements in exploring […]
NASA’s Curiosity rover on Mars has made a “mini-start hole”, which is the name for a new type of initial drilling test, according to Ryan Anderson, a planetary scientist at the USGS Astrogeology Science Center in Flagstaff, Arizona. The target is called “Buckskin” and the test will drill a small hole in the rock […]
Among 25 well-dressed and decorated Barons on display in Salisbury, a cathedral city in Wiltshire, England, is “Astro Baron” – thanks to Jenny Leonard, a creative and skilled artist based in London. The Trussell Trust, together with Wild in Art, is staging The Barons’ Charter Trail, called the biggest mass participation public art event ever […]
