Recently engaged in providing support to the successful landing of NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory’s Curiosity rover, ESA’s Mars Express has now returned to its primary mission of studying the diverse geology and atmosphere of the ‘Red Planet’ from orbit.
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High-Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) nadir and colour channel data taken during revolution 10572 on 9 April 2012 by ESA’s Mars Express …
NASA hosted a media teleconference to provide a status update on the Curiosity rover’s mission to Mars’ Gale Crater.
Topics include:
– CAP 2 (“Commissioning Activity Phase 2”)
– Robotic arm calibration
– MAHLI instrument
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– Michael Watkins, JPL, Curiosity mission manager
– Matt Robinson, JPL, lead engineer for Curiosity’s robotic arm testing and operations
– Joy Crisp, JPL, …
Anybody who has watched many movies or television shows has seen them—the ubiquitous silver suits worn by pilots as they explore the unknown. They are called pressure suits, and one can trace their lineage to Wiley Post or, perhaps, a bit earlier.
There are two kinds of pressure suits: partial pressure and full pressure. David Clark, the man, once pointed … Read the rest of this article
As beach trips, barbecues and bike rides fade into memories, let HubbleSite cheer you up with a chance to win a free cosmic image.
The End-of-Summer Hubble Picture Giveaway is a random drawing that runs until Sept. 16 on HubbleSite’s Facebook page. Three winners per day will receive a randomly selected 16×20″ print of one of three images: Mystic … Read the rest of this article
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and other dignitaries will attend a public memorial service at the Washington National Cathedral to honor the life and career of astronaut Neil Armstrong on Thursday, Sept. 13. The memorial will be broadcast live on NASA Television and streamed online by the agency’s and National Cathedral’s websites.
Neil Armstrong, who died on August 25th, 2012
Students worldwide have an opportunity to name an asteroid from which an upcoming NASA mission will return the first samples to Earth.
Scheduled to launch in 2016, the mission is called the Origins-Spectral Interpretation-Resource Identification-Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx). Samples returned from the primitive surface of the near-Earth asteroid currently called (101955) 1999 RQ36 could hold clues to the origin … Read the rest of this article
Europe’s latest weather satellite got a glimpse of the Moon before our celestial neighbour disappeared from view behind Earth on Friday. Since its launch two months ago, MSG-3 has been working well and is on its way to entering service.
The image shows the second full Moon of the month – known as a ‘blue’ Moon – just before it … Read the rest of this article
On the morning of 3 September 2006, a brief flash illuminated the Moon’s ‘Lake of Excellence’ as ESA’s SMART-1 mission met its fate on the dusty surface.
Launched in 2003, SMART-1 was the first European spacecraft to travel to and orbit the Moon.
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SMART-1 ended its journey in the Lake of Excellence at 34ºS / 46ºW at 05:42:22 GMT on …
This comes in courtesy of Terry Moseley at the Irish Astronomical Association (IAA):
Many congratulations to Dave Grennan for discovering his second supernova – and not from some dark sky site with an ideal climate, but from his own observatory in Raheny, Dublin! Dave used his 36cm Schmidt Cassegrain telescope for the discovery images.
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Dave Grennan (left) and his wife …
NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission has led to a bonanza of newfound supermassive black holes and extreme galaxies called hot DOGs, or dust-obscured galaxies.
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With its all-sky infrared survey, NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, has identified millions of quasar candidates. Quasars are supermassive black holes with masses millions to billions times greater than our sun. The …
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