Mars Rover Dusts off Surface for a better look.
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS First Use of Mars Rover Curiosity’s Dust Removal Tool This image from the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) on NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity shows the patch of…
NASA Kepler hints at over 250 new potentially habitable worlds
NASA Kepler released last month 18,406 planet-like detection events from its last three year mission to search for exoplanets (Kepler Q1-Q12 TCE). Further analysis is required by the NASA Kepler…
NASA Prepares for Launch of Next Earth Observation Satellite
(Source NASA) — NASA’s Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) is scheduled to launch Feb. 11 from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. A joint NASA and U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)…
Video from Chandra, Nutron Star Ejecting Jets of Particles
The hero of this Chandra movie is the Vela pulsar, a neutron star that was formed when a massive star collapsed. The Vela pulsar is about 1,000 light-years from Earth,…
Solar activity heating up, large flare and more sun spots
Today 1/9/13 at approximately 05:30 UTC a very large solar flare occurred as can be seen in the image above. It does not appear that this is an Earth effecting event. Watch…
India Plans Launch “Mangalyaan” Mission to Mars in November 2013
In an announcement on Friday at the Indian Science Congress (ISC) by J N Goswam. director of the Physical Research Laboratory in Ahmedabad, Inda will launch a scaled down mission to Mars…
Solar Flare Ballet 12-31-12
A solar eruption gracefully rose up from the sun on December 31, 2012, twisting and turning. Magnetic forces drove the flow of plasma, but without sufficient force to overcome the…
Quadrantids Meteor Shower This Week
Should be a good show but the brightness of the moon could hinder observations. The beginning of the 2013 shower will begin overnight Jan. 1 into Jan. 2. Quadrantids, named…
