View of ‘Santa Maria’ Crater from Western Rim, Sol 2454 (Stereo)
Posted by brandoniswrite on March 30, 2011
This 360-degree, stereo mosaic of images from the navigation camera on NASA‘s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows the view from the western rim of “Santa Maria” crater on the the 2,454th Martian day, or sol, of Opportunity’s work on Mars (Dec. 19, 2010). The view appears three-dimensional when seen through red-blue glasses with the red [...]
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Europe’s Ariane 5 to launch satellites for UAE and Africa
Posted by brandoniswrite on March 26, 2011
A European heavy lift launcher is set to deliver two communications satellites into earth orbit on Wednesday, including the first satellite built for use by the private sector of Africa.The two satellites — Yahsat Y1A and Intelsat New Dawn — will be placed into a geostationary orbit to begin a fifteen year life to provide [...]
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NASA’s Global Hawks Mark Year of Science Flights
Posted by brandoniswrite on March 14, 2011
This week marks the first anniversary of the NASA Global Hawk project’s initial science mission. On April 7, 2010, Global Hawk No. 872 took off from NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center on Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., for its first science foray over the Pacific Ocean in the Global Hawk Pacific 2010 – or GloPac [...]
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NASA Telescopes Help Discover Surprisingly Young Galaxy
Posted by brandoniswrite on March 10, 2011
Astronomers have uncovered one of the youngest galaxies in the distant universe, with stars that formed 13.5 billion years ago, a mere 200 million years after the Big Bang. The finding addresses questions about when the first galaxies arose, and how the early universe evolved. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope was the first to spot the [...]
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NASA’s Next Mars Rover Nears Completion
Posted by brandoniswrite on March 6, 2011
Assembly and testing of NASA‘s Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft is far enough along that the mission’s rover, Curiosity, looks very much as it will when it is investigating Mars. Testing continues this month at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., on the rover and other components of the spacecraft that will deliver Curiosity to Mars. [...]
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