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Photos: NASA Discovers Real-Life ‘Tatooine’ Planet With 2 Suns | NASA & Kepler Spacecraft …
Posted by admin in Uncategorized on September 17, 2011
NASA’s Kepler space observatory discovered a planet, Kepler-16b, that has two suns just like Luke Skywalker’s home planet Tatooine in “Star Wars.” See images of the Kepler-16b planet and Kepler mission artwork.www.space.com
Solar System history written in dust
The Japanese Hayabusa spacecraft may have returned only a tiny sample of dust from Asteroid Itokawa, but the analysis of the grains has thrown up some remarkable insights.www.bbc.co.uk
APOD: August 9 – Video – Juno Rockets Toward Jupiter
Next stop: Jupiter. Last week included one of the few times in history that humanity launched something completely off the Earth, moving away so fast that it will never return. Well, almost — Juno’s planned trajectory actually brings it homeward bound…
NASA To Send Spacecraft Toward Jupiter Today
NASA is today scheduled to launch Juno, a spacecraft that will travel to Jupiter and bring back info about the Solar system’s largest planetmashable.com
Asteroid Vesta Full Frame: APOD August 2nd 2011
Why is the northern half of asteroid Vesta more heavily cratered than the south? No one is yet sure. This unexpected mystery has come to light only in the past few weeks since the robotic Dawn mission became the first spacecraft to orbit the second lar…
NASA Going Green With Solar-Powered Jupiter Probe
NASA’s upcoming mission to Jupiter can’t get much greener than this: a solar-powered, windmill-shaped spacecraft.old.news.yahoo.com
NASA’s Juno to Circle Jupiter For ‘Planetary Recipe’
The US space agency plans to launch next week a solar-powered spacecraft called Juno that will journey to the gassy planet of Jupiter in search of how the huge, stormy giant was formed.www.physorg.com
What are the fastest spacecraft we’ve ever built?
Slowly, but with ever increasing steps, we’re learning our way around this Solar System and sketching out the regions beyond it.io9.com
NASA offers $5M prizes for cool robots, satellites and more
NASA today significantly expanded its Centennial Challenges program to include $5 million worth of new competitions to develop robots, small satellites, and solar powered spacecraft. www.networkworld.com
Venus Had Water, May Have Been Habitable
Posted by admin in General Sciences on June 29, 2010
If the solar system has an underachiever, it has to be Venus. But if new findings from the European Space Agency’s Venus Express spacecraft are correct, it looks like Venus could have been a contender. The reason: it once had water.www.time.com
Japan: The New Pioneer of the Final Frontier?
The country that invented the Walkman may be back on track to burnish its image as a technological pioneer. Right now, more than 4.7 million miles from Earth, is a revolutionary spacecraft that could be the future of interstellar travel. Japan’s space …
Japan’s Solar Sail Photographed in Orbit
If seeing is believing, this picture comes as sweet relief to a satellite operations team in Japan that has been overseeing the flight of an experimental solar sailing spacecraft. The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency, known as JAXA, captured the i…
Japan Successfully Rolls Out First Solar Sail in Space
It’s sink or sail time for Japan’s IKAROS spacecraft, and according to initial reports from JAXA the unfurling of the first solar sail deployed for actual deep space travel went off without a hitch.
NASA Declares Mars Lander Broken and Dead
Posted by admin in World News on May 24, 2010
NASA’s long-dormant Phoenix Mars Lander is broken and officially down for the count, with new images taken by an orbiting probe showing severe damage to the spacecraft’s solar panels due to the harsh Martian winter.
NASA Mars Lander Phoenix killed by ice
NASA officially ended its Phoenix Mars Lander operation today after a new image of the machine showed severe ice damage to its solar panels and repeated attempts to contact the spacecraft had failed
Solar sail hybrid launches for Venus and beyond
Posted by admin in General Sciences on May 18, 2010
Today the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency is set to launch the first spacecraft that will speed across the solar system using a hybrid solar sail—one propelled partly by solar pressure, partly by traditional solar power.
Japan to Launch Solar-Powered Spaceship
Could this be the start of greener space programs? Next month, Japan is launching a spacecraft powered by solar sails into deep space. The Ikaros, as the vessel has been dubbed, will take to the skies on May 18, 2010
Nasa reveals stunning footage from new satellite [w/ VIDEO]
The stunning images were taken by the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), which is the most advanced spacecraft ever designed to study the sun and takes pictures ten times clearer than high-definition TV.
The Deadliest Place In the Solar System Is Beautiful
This is the deadliest place in the solar system, photographed as never before by NASA’s new Solar Dynamics Observatory. It’s one of the first humbling images of our mighty Sun returned by the spacecraft. The video is terrifying…
Venus Orbiter Finds Potential Active Volcanoes
The Venus Express spacecraft has found convincing evidence that Earth is not the only geologically active planet in the solar system.
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