Image Credit: NASA Building on the success of NASA’s partnerships with commercial industry to date, NASA has selected 12 Next Space Technologies for Exploration Partnerships (NextSTEP) to advance concept studies and technology development projects in the areas of advanced propulsion, habitation and small satellites. Through these public-private partnerships, selected companies… Read more“NASA Announces New Partnerships with U.S. Industry for Key Deep-Space Capabilities”
NASA Drives Future Discoveries with New International Space Station Information System.
Dendrite formations as shown here affect the process of metals casting. This is an example of a physical science investigation conducted on the International Space Station. Image Credit: Peter Voorhees/Northwestern University A new NASA-designed information system will drive discoveries as scientists and researchers devise future investigations to be conducted aboard… Read more“NASA Drives Future Discoveries with New International Space Station Information System.”
Media Spun Up on NASA Cutting-edge Mars Landing Technology
March 31, 2015 Members of the media got an up-close look at LDSD flight-test vehicles currently in preparation in the clean room at NASA-JPL on March 31. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA’s Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD) project will be flying a rocket-powered, saucer-shaped test vehicle into near-space from the Navy’s Pacific… Read more“Media Spun Up on NASA Cutting-edge Mars Landing Technology”
2015 Arctic Sea Ice Maximum Annual Extent Is Lowest On Record
The sea ice cap of the Arctic appeared to reach its annual maximum winter extent on Feb. 25, according to data from the NASA-supported National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) at the University of Colorado, Boulder. At 5.61 million square miles (14.54 million square kilometers), this year’s maximum extent… Read more“2015 Arctic Sea Ice Maximum Annual Extent Is Lowest On Record”
NASA’s Terra Satellite Sees Shadows of Solar Eclipse
During the morning of March 20, 2015, a total solar eclipse was visible from parts of Europe, and a partial solar eclipse from northern Africa and northern Asia. NASA’s Terra satellite passed over the Arctic Ocean on March 20 at 10:45 UTC (6:45 a.m. EDT) and captured the eclipse’s shadow… Read more“NASA’s Terra Satellite Sees Shadows of Solar Eclipse”
NASA Spacecraft Becomes First to Orbit a Dwarf Planet
Ceres is seen from NASA’s Dawn spacecraft on March 1, just a few days before the mission achieved orbit around the previously unexplored dwarf planet. The image was taken at a distance of about 30,000 miles (about 48,000 kilometers). Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has become the first mission… Read more“NASA Spacecraft Becomes First to Orbit a Dwarf Planet”
Hubble Sees a Young Star Take Center Stage
Text Size Share on facebook163Share on twitterShare on google_plusone_shareShare on pinterest_shareShare on emailShare on printMore Sharing Services100 Hubble Sees a Young Star Take Center Stage With its helical appearance resembling a snail’s shell, this reflection nebula seems to spiral out from a luminous central star in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space… Read more“Hubble Sees a Young Star Take Center Stage”