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
Following the announcement by Jeff Bezos (founder of Amazon) that he had located the Saturn V engines from the Apollo 11 mission in 14,000 feet of water last week, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden issued this statement regarding the efforts announced this week by Bezos to recover main engines from the Saturn V first stage rocket of Apollo 11:
“I would … Read the rest of this article
These raw, unprocessed images of Saturn’s second largest moon, Rhea, were taken on March 10, 2012, by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft. This was a relatively distant flyby with a close-approach distance of 26,000 miles (42,000 kilometers), well suited for global geologic mapping.
During the flyby, Cassini captured these distinctive views of the moon’s cratered surface, creating a 30-frame mosaic of Rhea’s … Read the rest of this article
A proposed Discovery mission concept led by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., to investigate the formation and evolution of terrestrial planets by studying the deep interior of Mars now has a new name, InSight.
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Artist rendition of the proposed InSight (Interior exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport) Lander. InSight is based on the proven Phoenix Mars spacecraft …
The High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter recorded a scene on Jan. 29, 2012, that includes the first color image from orbit showing the three-petal lander of NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Spirit mission. Spirit drove off that lander platform in January 2004 and spent most of its six-year working life in a range of … Read the rest of this article
Three International Space Station crew members safely returned to Earth on Monday, wrapping up nearly six months in space during which NASA and its international partners celebrated the 11th anniversary of continuous residence and work aboard the station.
Expedition 29 Commander Mike Fossum, Flight Engineers Satoshi Furukawa of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency and Sergei Volkov of the Russian Federal … Read the rest of this article
NASA’s Dawn spacecraft will begin a prolonged encounter with the asteroid Vesta today (July 15), making the mission the first to enter orbit around a main-belt asteroid.
The main asteroid belt lies between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. Dawn will study Vesta for one year, and observations will help scientists understand the earliest chapter of our solar system’s history.… Read the rest of this article
Bright fireballs appear somewhere on Earth every day. Â Most are caused by rocky asteroids. On Friday, May 20th, however, a less common object struck. Â
Sky watchers in the southeastern USA watched a big but fragile piece of comet break apart in Earth’s atmosphere. The resulting fireball was the brightest meteor observed in nearly 3 years by NASA’s all-sky … Read the rest of this article
NASA has broadcast-quality audio and video clips from the ongoing STS-134 space shuttle and other missions available online through the Internet Archive website.
The agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston is digitizing, cataloging and archiving audio files for news media use. These files include an entire calendar day’s conversation between the Mission Control Center and the crews aboard the shuttle … Read the rest of this article
An award-winning NASA-produced television program, “NASA 360,” is available at the online video service hulu.com at: http://www.hulu.com/nasa-360
The site features four 30-minute episodes that show how composite materials are changing our world, how NASA has tested space technologies on Earth and what NASA researchers are doing to improve aviation. More programs will be added in the coming weeks.
“It’s awesome … Read the rest of this article
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