The First Billion-Pixel Image of Mars
A billion-pixel view from the surface of Mars, from NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity, offers armchair explorers a way to examine one part of the Red Planet…
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Cassini to Photograph Earth and Saturn From Deep Space
On July 19, 2013, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft will photograph Saturn and its entire ring system during a total eclipse of the sun. Cassini has done this…
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Venus’ Winds Have Been Getting Faster Over the Last 6 Years
The most detailed record of cloud motion in the atmosphere of Venus chronicled by ESA’s Venus Express has revealed that the planet’s winds have steadily been…
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Europe’s Herschel Science Mission Ends
With the exhaustion of its helium coolant, Herschel’s science mission ended on 29 April. But the stalwart satellite continued providing value to the end, serving as…
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ESA ExoMars Mission Set to Complete Construction and Launch in 2016
The ESA’s mission to Mars in 2016 has entered the final stage of construction with the signature of a contract today with Thales Alenia Space at…
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Valentina Tereshkova – 50th Anniversary of First Woman in Orbit
Valentina Tereshkova was born in Maslennikovo, near Yaroslavl, in Russia on 6 March 1937. Her father was a tractor driver and her mother worked in a…
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Black Hole Bonanza Discovered in M31 by Chandra X-Ray Observatory
Using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers have discovered an unprecedented bonanza of black holes in the Andromeda Galaxy, one of the nearest galaxies to…
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Help Fund the World’s First Crowdfunded Space Telescope That Will Be Accessible to the Public
Alien planets are out there and Planetary Resources needs your help to find them! That’s right, the same high-powered telescope technology being used by Planetary Resources…
Read the articleStrange Thermal Rhythm in Martian Atmosphere Due to Water-Ice Clouds
Researchers using NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have found that temperatures in the Martian atmosphere regularly rise and fall not just once each day, but twice. “We…
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Farthest Planet Forming From Its Star Seen by Hubble
Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have found compelling evidence of a planet forming 7.5 billion miles away from its star, a finding that may challenge…
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