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Juno Probe Beams Back First Photo of Jupiter after 1.8 Billion-Mile Trip

July 13, 2016 Posted by Gabrielle Stewart

Jupier and Callisto, Europa and Ganymede moons.

On July 4, NASA’s Juno probe finally reached Jupiter after a 1.8 billion-mile trip, but this week NASA confirmed that its JunoCam is fully operational and has just taken a first picture of the gas giant since the mission started 5 years ago. First high-resolution pictures will be taken and made public within several weeks. The probe’s camera was turned on about a week after it entered the gas … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Tech & Science Tagged With: Juno, jupiter, Jupiter moons, NASA

Dawn Spacecraft Takes Glimpse at Ceres’ Dimly-Lit Regions

July 10, 2016 Posted by Amelia Donovan

Closeup of dwarf planet Ceres’ surface

NASA announced that Dawn spacecraft has successfully managed to map dwarf planet Ceres’ dimly lit portions where scientists believe that there could be several ice deposits within billion-year-old craters. Researchers explained that Ceres’s has some spots that it are permanently enshrouded in darkness, and temperatures can sink way below the permanently shadowed regions of the Moon or planet … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Tech & Science Tagged With: Ceres, Dawn probe, Dwarf Planet Ceres, Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA

New Horizons Probe Readies for Rendezvous with another Kuiper Belt Object

July 5, 2016 Posted by Emma Carter

Kuiper Belt object

NASA’s New Horizons probe, which made history last summer with its flyby of dwarf planet Pluto, was given the green light to travel deeper into the Kuiper Belt and explore another Kuiper Belt object, dubbed 2014 MU69. The tiny probe is expected to reach MU69 in early January 2019. NASA also announced that Dawn spacecraft will stay put on its orbit around dwarf planet Ceres as plans for it to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Tech & Science Tagged With: 2014 MU69 flyby, Ceres, Dawn spacecraft, Kuiper belt, NASA, new horizons, Pluto flyby

SpaceX Releases Short Video about Its Reusable Rocket Project

January 30, 2015 Posted by Contributor

The Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX), a private spaceflight company commissioned by NASA to ferry goods from Earth to the International Space Station (ISS), recently released a short animation film describing how space rockets would get recovered after their mission is over. The video features Falcon Heavy, a larger type of space rocket than the current Falcon 9 version, that … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Tech & Science Tagged With: Elon Musk rusable rockets, Falcon Heavy, Falcon X rocket, NASA, reusable rockets, soft landing a first stage rocket, spaceflight company, taxi flights, The Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX)

Both NOAA and NASA Confirm That 2014 is the Hottest Year on Record

January 17, 2015 Posted by Contributor

On Friday, NASA and the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) confirmed a recent prediction made by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) in early December: year 2014 is the hottest year on record. Three sets of meteorological data gathered by NASA, NOAA, and the UK's Met Office revealed that last year recorded global temperatures 1.24 F/ 0.68C above the long-term … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Tech & Science Tagged With: climate change skeptics, extreme rainfall, global warming evidence, Hottest Year on Record, NASA, NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, temperature records, US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), World Meteorological Organization (WMO)

Mars Lander, Beagle-2 Was Found on Mars after 11 Year Missing

January 16, 2015 Posted by Staff

Beagle-2 Was Found on Mars

The European Space Agency announced that their Beagle-2 was found on Mars after 11 years of having gone missing. The lander was reported missing in 2003 and nothing was heard from it since until now. The lander was managed to be found after photos of it on Mars were taken with a high resolution camera by NASA’s Mars Orbiter Reconnaissance Orbiter. The photo, which to the naked eye doesn’t look … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Technology Tagged With: beagle-2 2003, beagle-2 news, Beagle-2 Was Found on Mars, NASA, NASA Beagle-2, uk beagle 2

Study Solves Mystery of Missing Water from Greenland Ice Sheet

January 13, 2015 Posted by Contributor

A new study may have solved the mystery involving the sudden vanishing of the water resulted from the melting of the Greenland ice sheet. UCLA scientists found that about a 25 percent of the water does not reach the global ocean. Instead it seems to linger in gigantic aquifers inside the ice. The study was published on Monday in the journal Proceedings. The authors explained that they based … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Tech & Science Tagged With: GPS beacons, Greenland aquifers, Greenland glacier melting, Greenland ice cracks, Greenland Ice Sheet, Greenland moulins, ice scientists, Isortoq River, melting ice in Greenland, NASA, UCLA study

SpaceX Cargo Capsule Has Successfully Docked ISS on Monday

January 13, 2015 Posted by Editor

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has announced that SpaceX  cargo capsule, designed to resupply the International Space Station (ISS), has successfully docked the orbital station Monday morning. The launch took place Saturday morning at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Both the rocket launch and cargo ship docking were successful. However, SpaceX had some … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Tech & Science Tagged With: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, Dragon cargo capsule, European Space Agency (ESA), Falcon 9 January launch, International Space Station (ISS), Johnson Space Center, NASA, SpaceX, SpaceX cargo ship

NASA Launches Vintage Travel Posters Depicting Newfound Exoplanets

January 11, 2015 Posted by Editor

Last month, NASA released a series of vintage travel posters depicting three of the nearly 5,000 planets found by space telescopes outside our solar system. The release may celebrate NASA marking a recent milestone – Kepler telescope has spotted its 1,000th exoplanet. In those bright colored posters, NASA seems to invite space travelers to visit the three extra solar planets, or exoplanets. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Tech & Science Tagged With: celebrating Kepler milestone, Dan Goods, David Delgado, exoplanet discovery, Exoplanet Travel Bureau, HD 40307g, Joby Harris, Kepler space telescope, Kepler-16b, Kepler-186f, NASA, NASA vitage posters, planet with two suns, space travel, super earth, Tatooine-like planet, vinatge travel poster of exoplanets

SpaceX: Rocket Launch Was Successful; Booster Had a Hard Landing

January 11, 2015 Posted by Editor

SpaceX’s CEO, Elon Musk, announced Saturday that Falcon 9 rocket’s cargo capsule was on its way to the International Space Station (ISS) and it would dock it on Monday, but the first stage booster had a hard landing on the floating platform in the Atlantic Ocean. Both booster and platform were damaged when the landing took place. Soon after the liftoff, Mrs. Musk tweeted that the first stage … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Tech & Science Tagged With: booster had a hard landing, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Dragon cargo capsule, Elon Musk, Falcon 9 rocket, International Space Station (ISS), NASA, reusable rockets, SpaceX, the drone spaceport ship landing

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