Tag: NASA

  • NASA’s Curiosity Rover Makes a Stunning Find

    NASA’s Curiosity Rover Makes a Stunning Find

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    “Finding a field of stones made of pure sulfur is like finding an oasis in the desert,” said Curiosity’s project scientist, Ashwin Vasavada of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. “It shouldn’t be there, so now we have to explain it. Discovering strange and unexpected things is what makes planetary exploration so exciting.” It’s…

  • ET Alert

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    If you are a fan of Extra Terrestrials, Science Alert  has an interesting article on the latest plan to contact the closest Earth-like exoplanet in our Solar system: Scientists are making preparations to send a transmission to Proxima b – the closest Earth-like exoplanet to our Solar System. The team is putting together a plan to build or…

  • Evidence of Lake ‘Much Like that on Early Earth’s Found on Mars

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    Jonathan Amos, Science Correspondent for BBC News reports on the stunning findings relayed to scientists by NASA’s Curiosity rover. The ancient lake environment found in Mars’ Gale Crater could have supported microbes called chemolithoautotrophs – if they had been present. Known as Yellowknife bay, this topographic low has been shown through the drilling and chemical…

  • Manned Mission to Mars by 2017?

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      Joel Achenbach reports on Billionaire’s desire to send humans to Mars by as early as 2017: Billionaire Dennis Tito, tired of being told that we can’t send humans to Mars just yet, on Wednesday revealed his scheme for launching two astronauts to the red planet as early as December 2017.Dubbed “Inspiration Mars,” the fly-by…

  • NASA | When Trees Fall, Landsat Maps Them

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    Twelve years of global deforestation, wildfires, windstorms, insect infestations and more are captured in a new set of forest disturbance maps created from billions of pixels acquired by the imager on the NASA-USGS Landsat 7 satellite. The maps are the first to measure forest loss and gain using a consistent method around the globe at…

  • Voyager Enters Interstellar Space

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    PBS NEWSHOUR EXTRA passes along NASA’s announcement that the Voyager 1 spacecraft has reached interstellar space. The scientists working on the Voyager 1 mission say the spacecraft entered interstellar space on or around August 25, 2012. They estimate that Voyager 1 is 11 billion miles from Earth, which puts it beyond all of the planets…

  • Canyon Discovered in Greenland Larger than Arizona Grand Canyon

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    Ron G. Anselm posts information on a newly discovered mega-canyon under Greenland’s ice sheet. NASA`s Airborne Science Mission… discovered evidence of a large and previously unknown canyon hiding under all that solid mound of Greenland frozen tundra. Greenland mysterious hidden Grand Canyon looks to be around 460 miles long making it larger and longer than the…

  • Scientists Detect Magmatic Water on Surface of Moon

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    Earth Sky Science News reports scientists have detected magmatic water — water that originates from deep within the Moon’s interior — on the surface of the Moon. These findings, published in the August 25 issue of Nature Geoscience, represent the first such remote detection of this type of lunar water, and were arrived at using…

  • Stunning Photos from NASA’s Sptizer Telescope

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    Wired celebrates the 10th anniversary of the Spitzer Star Telescope by sharing some of the extraordinary images it has produced: For 10 years, NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has been helping scientists on Earth learn more about the mysterious objects hiding in our star-studded skies. On August 25, 2003, the telescope — carrying a relatively small, 0.85-meter beryllium…

  • Curiosity “Tastes” Martian Air

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    Alicia Chang, science writer for the AP, relays some interesting information discovered by Curiosity about the Martian atmosphere: The Curiosity rover has tasted Mars’ air: It’s made mostly of carbon dioxide with hints of other gases. There was a small surprise: Viking found nitrogen to be the second most abundant gas in the Martian air,…