Mars Express to Support Dramatic Curiosity Rover Landing on Mars
On 6 August, NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory will make a spectacular landing to deliver the Curiosity rover to the Red Planet. ESA’s Mars Express will track…
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NASA Mars Orbiter Successfully Repositioned to Cover Landing of Curiosity Mars Rover
NASA’s Mars Odyssey spacecraft has successfully adjusted its orbital location to be in a better position to provide prompt confirmation of the August landing of the…
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Want to Feel Insignificant? See the Solar System to Scale in Your Browser
OMG Space compresses 10.1 billion kilometres into onto a 1:647 scale visual recreation of our solar system. Wired spotted the work, completed by graphic designer Universe…
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Sally Ride, First American Woman in Space, Dies
Sally Ride, the first US woman to travel into space, has died aged 61, 17 months after she was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, her foundation says.…
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Free Astrobiology Course Available From Edinburgh University
There are a ton of exceedingly odd collegiate classes floating around out there. Now Edinburgh University is joining the fine tradition of off-beat classes, and they’re…
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A Solar Maximum Appetizer
Forecasters say Solar Max is due in the year 2013. When it arrives, the peak of 11-year sunspot cycle will bring more solar flares, more coronal…
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NASA History Now Available on iTunes U
Marking the 43rd anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, NASA has added an extensive collection of historical video, audio, photographs and documents to iTunes U.…
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SpaceX’s Dragon Makes History – Mission Highlights Video
On May 25, 2012 SpaceX made history when the Dragon spacecraft became the first privately developed vehicle in history to successfully attach to the International Space…
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NASA’s High Resolution Coronal Imager Captures Sharpest Images of Sun’s Corona
A telescope launched July 11 aboard a NASA sounding rocket has captured the highest-resolution images ever taken of the sun’s million-degree atmosphere called the corona. The…
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Daytime Lightning Flashes Spotted on Saturn by Cassini
Saturn was playing the lightning storm blues. NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has captured images of last year’s storm on Saturn, the largest storm seen up-close at the…
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