1.7 Mile long Asteroid Earth Close Flyby May 31, 2013
A 1.7 mile wide (2.7km) Asteroid will fly by Earth at 20:59 p.m. UTC (4:59pm est), Friday, May 31. The 1998 QE2 asteroid will pass by Earth at a safe…
Hubble Telescope Reveals the Ring Nebula’s True Shape
(Source NASA) — The Ring Nebula’s distinctive shape makes it a popular illustration for astronomy books. But new observations by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope of the glowing gas shroud around…
GOES 13 Weather Satellite Fails
With the recent EF5 Tornado in and loss of life in Moore Oklahoma the importance of continuous coverage by weather satellites is even more important and evident. One of the…
Second Hole Drilled by Mars Curiosity Rover
(Source NASA). – NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity has used the drill on its robotic arm to collect a powdered sample from the interior of a rock called “Cumberland.” Plans call…
Kepler Reaction Wheel Fails, May be Mission Ending
The vaunted Kepler Spacecraft, responsible for the discovery of hundreds of exoplanets, has experienced the failure of it’s final reaction wheel. The spacecraft has four reaction wheels and needs at…
Boulder sized Meteor hits moon, seen with naked eye bright as Mag 4 Star
NASA reports that a boulder has impacted the moon and it was big enough to have been seen by the naked eye if you happened to be looking at the…
NASA Satellite Data Help Pinpoint Glaciers’ Role in Sea Level Rise
(Source NASA) – A new study of glaciers worldwide using observations from two NASA satellites has helped resolve differences in estimates of how fast glaciers are disappearing and contributing to…
Mars Curiosity rover at Cumberland
NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity used its front left Hazard-Avoidance Camera for this image of the rover’s arm over the drilling target “Cumberland” during the 275th Martian day, or sol, of…
