Tandem Team-Up By ESA
Based on the outstanding success of the first tandem mission between ERS-2 and Envisat last year, ESA has paired the two satellites together again to help improve understanding of our planet.
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STARBASE to ISS, Come in ISS . . .
Times have changed since just a decade ago, and perhaps we should have gotten a clue with the fact that the students we heard about are part of a program called the STARBASE Atlantis Naval Air Station education program in Corpus Christi, Texas. Because of this the rest just had to follow. . .
Read MoreViewing Venus Via Varying Aspects
A pale yellow dot to the human eye, Earth's twin planet comes to life in the ultraviolet and the infrared. New images taken by instruments on board ESA's Venus Express provide insight into the turbulent atmosphere of our neighboring planet.
Read MoreNASA’s Challenge: How Do You Pin an Award On An Armadillo?
NASA will recognize Armadillo Aerospace, the winner of the 2008 Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge, during a ceremony at 10 a.m. on December 5th at NASA Headquarters, in Washington.
Read MoreSilence From Phoenix Mars Lander Is Deafening
After nearly a month of daily checks to determine whether Martian NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander would be able to communicate again, the agency has stopped using its Mars orbiters to hail the lander and listen for its beep.
Read MoreJuno Jammin’ For Jupiter
NASA is officially moving forward on a mission to conduct an unprecedented, in-depth study of Jupiter. Called Juno, the mission will be the first in which a spacecraft is placed in a highly elliptical polar orbit around the giant planet to understand its formation, evolution, and structure.
Read MoreSaturn Casts A Gigantic Shadow
In this photo from the Cassini-Huygens mission, Saturn's shadow cuts across the rings in this view from high above the ringplane.
Read MoreThe ISRO’s Chandrayaan-1 Moons All
The Indian Space Research Organisation’s lunar orbiter Chandrayaan-1 released a probe that impacted close to the lunar south pole on November 14.
Read MoreA Rocky Snap From ISS
This astronaut photograph was acquired on October 28 with a Nikon D2Xs digital camera that was fitted with an 180-mm lens and was taken by the Expedition 18 crew. The photo highlights a portion of the Great Divide in the Rocky Mountains approximately 31 kilometers due west of Boulder, Colorado.
Read MoreThe Frigid Clutch Of Glaciers… On Mars?
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has revealed vast Martian glaciers of water ice under protective blankets of rocky debris at much lower latitudes than any ice previously identified on the Red Planet.
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