Yosemite Rim Fire as seen from space
The scale of the Rim Fire threatening Yosemite can be seen in these images from the MODIS instrument on the Aqua Satellite. This image was captured on August 22, 2013. As…
Impressive Video of South Pole Aurora From Space
Aurora Australis, or Southern Lights, as seen by the NASA IMAGE satellite eight days after a giant solar flare. Just a very cool animation of the Aurora over the south…
3D Printed Parts Used to make 20,000 Pound Thrust Rocket Motor!
Things that make you say Hmmm…printing a 20,000 pound thrust rocket motor….hmmm. I am off to Best Buy to get my first 3D printer!!!! The future is really her once…
LADEE MOON Launch Will be Seen as Far Away as Maine!
Update 9/6/13 – LADEE Moon launch successful. See Video and read about it. Friday September 6th 2013 millions of people in the Northeastern U.S. will get the chance to see…
Spitzer Telescope Mission Celebrates 10 years
(Source NASA) – Ten years after a Delta II rocket launched NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, lighting up the night sky over Cape Canaveral, Fla., the fourth of four Great Observatories…
WISE Spacecraft brought out if Hibernation to Hunt Asteroids
Probe Will Assist Agency in Search for Candidates to Explore (Source NASA) – A NASA spacecraft that discovered and characterized tens of thousands of asteroids throughout the solar system before being…
Space Station Sunrise over the Aleutian Islands
Astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS) took this panoramic photo looking northeast from a point half-way along the Aleutian Island chain on August 4th 2013. They were flying east…
Mars MSL Curiosity’s Travel Map Through Sol 365
This map shows the route driven by NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity through the 365 Martian day, or sol, of the rover’s mission on Mars (August 16, 2013). Numbering of the…
