NASA’s Mars Curiosity Rover Marks First Martian Year with Mission Successes NASA’s Mars Curiosity Rover captures a selfie to mark a full Martian year — 687 Earth days — spent exploring the Red Planet. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS Full image and caption NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover will complete a Martian year… Read more“NASA’s Mars Curiosity Rover Marks First Martian Year with Mission Successes”
Station Crew Wraps Up Week With Medical Research
June 13, 2014 Flight Engineer Alexander Gerst enjoys the view of Earth from the windows in the cupola of the International Space Station. Image Credit: NASA The six-person Expedition 40 crew of the International Space Station wrapped up another workweek in space Friday supporting medical and physics research, maintaining station… Read more“Station Crew Wraps Up Week With Medical Research”
Asteroid Discovered by NASA Passes Earth Safely for 8 June 2014
A newfound asteroid will safely pass Earth on June 8 from a distance of about 777,000 miles (1.25 million kilometers), more than three times farther away than our moon. Designated 2014 HQ124, the asteroid was discovered April 23, 2014, by NASA’s NEOWISE mission, a space telescope adapted for scouting… Read more“Asteroid Discovered by NASA Passes Earth Safely for 8 June 2014”
LDSD Launch Status Updates
Sunday, June 8 Update June 8, 2014 – 8:12 PM EDT The winds aren’t cooperating for our launch of the Low Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD) tomorrow, Monday, June 9. Other potential launch dates include June 11 and 14. Wind conditions have been the prevailing factor in the launch delays … Read more“LDSD Launch Status Updates”
A First for NASA’s IRIS: Observing a Gigantic Eruption of Solar Material
A coronal mass ejection, or CME, surged off the side of the sun on May 9, 2014, and NASA’s newest solar observatory caught it in extraordinary detail. This was the first CME observed by the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, or IRIS, which launched in June 2013 to peer into the… Read more“A First for NASA’s IRIS: Observing a Gigantic Eruption of Solar Material”
Astronomers Confounded By Massive Rocky World
An artist concept shows the Kepler-10 system, home to two rocky planets. In the foreground is Kepler-10c, a planet that weighs 17 times as much as Earth and is more than twice as large in size. This discovery has planet formation theorists challenged to explain how such a world could… Read more“Astronomers Confounded By Massive Rocky World”
NASA Supported Research Helps Redefine Solar System’s Edge
The solar system has a new most-distant family member. Scientists using ground based observatories have discovered an object that is believed to have the most distant orbit found beyond the known edge of our solar system. Named 2012 VP113, the observations of the object — possibly a dwarf planet —… Read more“NASA Supported Research Helps Redefine Solar System’s Edge”