NASA’s next Mars rover will land at the foot of a layered mountain inside the planet’s Gale crater.
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NASA has selected Gale crater as the landing site for the Mars Science Laboratory mission. The mission’s rover will be placed on the ground in a northern portion of the crater in August 2012. This view of Gale is a mosaic of …
Thus was history made: Space Shuttle Atlantis left the International Space Station on Tuesday and made its last return to Earth today. The Shuttle era is now over and the door is open to the next generation of space vehicles.
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Wrapping up 30 years of unmatched achievements and blazing a trail for the next era of U.S. human spaceflight, NASA’s storied Space shuttle Program came to a “wheels stop” on Thursday, July 21st, 2011 at the conclusion of its 135th mission.
shuttle Atlantis and its four-astronaut crew glided home for the final time, ending a 13-day journey of more than … Read the rest of this article
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden issued this statement on July 21st about the final landing of the Space shuttle Program:
“At today’s final landing of the space shuttle, we had the rare opportunity to witness history. We turned the page on a remarkable era and began the next chapter in our nation’s extraordinary story of exploration.
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The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has discovered a new moon circling Pluto. P4, as it is currently called, is the smallest moon yet found orbiting Pluto, with an estimated size of 13–34 km. By comparison, Pluto’s largest moon, Charon, is 1043 km across, while Nix and Hydra are 32–113 km wide. The tiny, new satellite popped up in a Hubble … Read the rest of this article
New observations from the Herschel Space Observatory show a bizarre, twisted ring of dense gas at the center of our Milky Way galaxy. Only a few portions of the ring, which stretches across more than 600 light-years, were known before. Herschel’s view reveals the entire ring for the first time, and a strange kink that has astronomers scratching their heads.… Read the rest of this article
NASA has released a new book for visually impaired people to experience the wonders of the moon. Called “Getting a Feel for Lunar Craters,” the 17-page book features Braille and tactile diagrams of the lunar surface, craters and peaks.
The book was created and funded by NASA’s Lunar Science Institute (NLSI), at Moffett Field, Calif, and features tactile diagrams of … Read the rest of this article
Two small NASA probes that had been used to study space weather now are orbiting the moon to study its interior and surface composition.
The spacecraft, called Acceleration, Reconnection, Turbulence and Electrodynamics of the Moon’s Interaction with the Sun (ARTEMIS), began their journey away from Earth’s orbit in July 2009. The first spacecraft entered lunar orbit on June 27, and … Read the rest of this article
NASA and the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum will host a news conference at 10 a.m. EDT, Friday, July 22 to announce the selected landing site for the agency’s latest Mars rover. The event will be in the museum’s Moving Beyond Earth Gallery. NASA Television and the agency’s Web site will provide live coverage of the event.
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