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...]
Dawn Spacecraft Takes Glimpse at Ceres’ Dimly-Lit Regions
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...]
New Horizons Probe Readies for Rendezvous with another 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...]
SpaceX Releases Short Video about Its Reusable Rocket Project
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...]
Both NOAA and NASA Confirm That 2014 is the Hottest Year on Record
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...]
Mars Lander, Beagle-2 Was Found on Mars after 11 Year Missing
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...]
Study Solves Mystery of Missing Water from Greenland Ice Sheet
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...]
SpaceX Cargo Capsule Has Successfully Docked ISS on Monday
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...]
NASA Launches Vintage Travel Posters Depicting Newfound Exoplanets
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...]
SpaceX: Rocket Launch Was Successful; Booster Had a Hard Landing
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...]
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