Showing posts with label NASA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label NASA. Show all posts
Sunday, September 30, 2012

Saturn's Glorious Rings Dazzle in NASA Photo

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NASA's Cassini spacecraft snapped this angled shot of Saturn, showing the southern reaches of the planet with the rings on a dramati...

Ancient Water Streambed Discovered On Mars

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A NASA rover's discovery of an ancient streambed on Mars is exciting, but it’s far from the first solid evidence that the Red Pla...
Friday, August 24, 2012

MARS Curiosity rover's landing footage

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The shot above is the first high(ish) resolution photo shown to the public from its cameras, depicting a shadow of its top, a peculiar ...
Sunday, June 24, 2012

Parts of Mars Interior as Wet as Earth's

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The interior of Mars holds vast reservoirs of water, with some spots apparently as wet as Earth 's innards, scientists say. The ...
Tuesday, May 22, 2012

SpaceX Successfully Launches the First Privately Built Spacecraft to the International Space Station

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After a handful of delays and one abort on the launch pad, SpaceX began its historic journey toward the International Space Station jus...

100-Year Starship Project Forges Ahead With First Round of Funding

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An ambitious effort for an interstellar travel planning organization officially kicked off this week, after DARPA awarded $500,000 to fo...
Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Saturn's Two Largest Moons Line Up

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  Saturn's two biggest moons hang together in a stunning new photo from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The image shows the heavily crat...
Thursday, January 26, 2012

NASA's Kepler confirms 26 new planets

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The US space agency said Thursday its Kepler space telescope mission has confirmed 26 new planets outside our solar system , all of them o...
Monday, December 5, 2011

NASA Telescope Confirms Alien Planet in Habitable Zone

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This artist's conception illustrates Kepler-22b, a planet known to comfortably circle in the habitable zone of a sun-like star. CREDI...
Sunday, November 20, 2011

New Finding Ups the Chances of Life on Jupiter's Moon Europa

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Europa, as viewed from NASA’s Galileo spacecraft. Visible are plains of bright ice, cracks that run to the horizon, and dark patches tha...
Saturday, August 27, 2011

James Webb Space Telescope to Now Cost $8.7 Billion

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  WASHINGTON — NASA has confirmed a new cost estimate for its James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) that a key congressional appropriator and ...
Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Potential Liquid Water On Mars 'A Big Deal

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Picture of Martian Surface from NASA's Spirit Rover   Claims of water on Mars have been made before, but a new discovery of po...
Sunday, August 7, 2011

NASA spacecraft begins 5-year trip to Jupiter

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (AP) — A sun-powered robotic explorer named Juno is rocketing toward Jupiter on a fresh quest to discover the sec...
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Saturday, July 23, 2011

NASA's Next Mars Rover to Land at Huge Gale Crater

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  WASHINGTON — It's official: NASA' s next Mars rover has a landing site, and it's a giant crater called Gale. NASA's $2...
Tuesday, July 5, 2011

NASA Spacecraft Arrives at Asteroid Next Week

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NASA's Dawn spacecraft obtained this image on its approach to the protoplanet Vesta, the second-most massive object in the main aste...
Thursday, June 30, 2011

Bright galaxy sheds light on early Universe

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This NASA image obtained in February 2011 shows black holes. Light from a bright, ancient galaxy with a super-massive black hole at i...
Saturday, June 18, 2011

Orion Unveiled: Spitzer Telescope Spies Nebula’s Infrared Secrets

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This infrared image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows the Orion nebula, the closest massive star-making factory to Earth. Sp...
Thursday, May 26, 2011

Satellite 'helps find 17 Egypt pyramids'

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WASHINGTON (AFP) – Archaeologists have uncovered as many as 17 buried pyramids in Egypt with the help of NASA satellite imagery, accor...
Tuesday, May 24, 2011

NASA Unveils New Spaceship for Deep Space Exploration

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Artist's rendering of the Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle on a deep space mission. NASA on Tuesday announced a plan to develop a new deep...
Thursday, May 19, 2011

Space Shuttle Endeavour Does A 'Backflip' To Dock With ISS

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The space shuttle Endeavour, which blasted off on Monday for its final mission, docked with the International Space Station on Wednesday. N...