NASA Announces Mars MSL findings…Viking Lander history repeats itself.

History Repeats itself….sigh NASA held a news conference today to reveal what one of the program scientists said was an announcement “for the history books”.  Well……..if the history books are about how…

NASA’s Big Mars Announcment Tomorrow 12/3/12-Worth the wait?

Exciting news or a Big Yawn? (Update 12/3/12 see announcement at this link.) Tomorrow NASA is going to make an announcement related to a finding by the Mars Rover and…

Major Study Finds Ice Sheet Loss at Both Poles Increasing

(Source NASA) – An international team of experts supported by NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) has combined data from multiple satellites and aircraft to produce the most comprehensive…

Messenger Spacecraft finds water on planet Mecury

New information from  MESSENGER spacecraft shows there is frozen water on Mecury. Its onboard instruments have been studying Mercury in unprecedented detail since its historic arrival there in March 2011….

Cassini Snaps Image of Hurricane like Storm on Saturn

Looking a lot like the recent Hurricane Sandy here on Earth, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft captured this image of a large vortex. The Spacecraft has been traveling the Saturnian system in…

Two Multi-Billion Dollar Spy Satellites Looking for Use at NASA

NASA Seeks Concepts for Innovative Uses of Large Space Telescopes Former Spy satellites will be given to NASA in order to address NASA’s goals in astrophysics, heliophysics, planetary sciences, and…

Cassini Mission finds Pac-Man in Space

These thermal images captured by the Cassini mission have spotted features shaped like the 1980s Pac-Man video game icon in the Saturn system, this time on the moon Tethys —…

Rocket Sled Super Slow Motion Video of Inflatable Supersonic Decelerator

As NASA plans ambitious new robotic missions to Mars, laying the groundwork for even more complex human science expeditions to come, the spacecraft needed to land safely on the red…