Optical, radar and laser observations of the Envisat satellite show that it is still in a stable orbit. Efforts to regain contact with the satellite have been under way since 8 April, when it unexpectedly stopped sending data to Earth.
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On 15 April, the French space agency CNES rotated the Pleiades Earth observation satellite to capture this image of Envisat. …
Last month, when the sun unleashed the most intense radiation storm since 2003, peppering satellites with charged particles and igniting strong auroras around both poles, a group of high school students in Bishop, California, knew just what to do. They launched a rubber chicken.
Camilla at ~124,800 feet on March 3, 2012.
The students inflated a helium balloon and used … Read the rest of this article
Yes, you read the title of this correctly. Something big might be about to happen in terms of manned (or possibly robotic) space exploration, outside the remit of NASA and other national, governmental space agencies. Big names like Google, James Cameron and the X-Prize Foundation might be getting into the space mining business!
It’s the kind of thing you’d expect … Read the rest of this article
A region on Saturn’s moon Titan has been found to be similar to the Etosha Pan in Namibia, Africa. Both are ephemeral lakes – large, shallow depressions that sometimes fill with liquid.
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Ontario Lacus is Titan’s largest lake in its southern hemisphere. It is an ephemeral lake that resembles Etosha Pan in Namibia, Africa. On Titan the liquid is made …
Mercury, the closest planet to the Sun, remains somewhat of a mystery to us.
The BepiColombo mission will place two orbiters around Mercury: the European-made Mercury Planetary Orbiter (MPO), seen here, that will map the planet, and Japanese-made Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter (MMO), that will investigate its magnetosphere. Credits: ESA – P. Carril
In the past, because of its proximity to … Read the rest of this article
NASA will celebrate the 42nd anniversary of Earth Day this week with several live and online activities to engage the public about the agency’s mission to use space to explore and better understand our planet.
NASA will host three days of displays and presentations open to the public on the National Mall in Washington from Friday, April 20, through Earth … Read the rest of this article
Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus hangs below the gas giant’s rings while Titan lurks in the background, in this new image taken by the Cassini spacecraft.
Faint detail of the tiger stripe markings can be seen on Enceladus’ surface, which is framed against Titan, Saturn’s largest moon. With jets of water ice and vapour streaming from Enceladus’ south pole, and liquid … Read the rest of this article
“Following are excerpts from remarks given by NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver at the arrival of the space shuttle Discovery at Dulles International Airport on Tuesday, April 17:
“Discovery was the longest-serving veteran of NASA’s space shuttle fleet. Her maiden voyage was in 1984. She flew 39 missions, spent 365 days in space, orbited Earth 5,830 times and traveled 148,221,675 … Read the rest of this article
Several million young stars are vying for attention in a new NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of a raucous stellar breeding ground in 30 Doradus, a star-forming complex located in the heart of the Tarantula nebula.
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The image comprises one of the largest mosaics ever assembled from Hubble photos and includes observations taken by Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 and …
A full-scale test version of the Orion spacecraft is one of several NASA-sponsored exhibits that will appear alongside space shuttle Discovery at the National Air and Space Museum’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center near Washington Dulles International Airport in Chantilly, Va.
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This artist’s rendering represents the crew module of the Orion crew exploration vehicle with the outer skin removed revealing the …
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