New ‘Safe Mode’ Status of Curiosity Expected to be Brief There have been no new images from the rover due…
Month: March 2013
Blogging and the answer to the ultimate question
Hello friends of KnowledgeOrb. This post is a little off topic from the normal space and science topics we usually…
SpaceX rocket hovers 80 meters, but is it a good idea?
There is an old saying, he bit off more than he could chew. This could be the case with the…
Curiosity Rover Recovery Progressing, No New Images Yet.
The Mars rover Curiosity is still not in normal science data collection mode since a memory error prompted the flight…
Interesting Pictures of Earth-Moon Eclipsing Sun from SDO
File this under interesting trivia. On March 2, 2013, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) entered its semiannual eclipse season, a…
ISS Launch from Virginia Scheduled for April
Test Flight of Orbital’s Antares Rocket Scheduled for April 16-18 A test flight of Orbital Sciences Corporation’s Antares rocket from…
Strong Coronal Mass Ejection Hits Earth 3/17/13
The last few days have seen many space weather warnings and alerts. The root of all of these was activity…
GEOMAGNETIC STORM Predicted 3/17. Auroras as low as New York
Update – NOAA predicts 70 percent chance of GEOMAGNETIC STORM March 17th A CME that left the sun on March…
