Tag Archives: Earth

Video: SpaceX Test-Fires Its New Super-Powerful Capsule Engines

Posted on February 1, 2012 by admin

SpaceX’s dream of fielding a spacelaunch system that is completely reusable is inching forward with the successful test-firing of its new SuperDraco engine. Continue reading →

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For the First Time, Human-Made Probe Samples Atoms From Beyond the Solar System

Posted on February 1, 2012 by admin

IBEX IBEX has caught the interstellar wind that surrounds and compresses our heliosphere and has found that it travels more slowly and in a different direction than previously thought. Continue reading →

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Curiosity Rover, on its Way to Mars, Finds Out What a Solar Storm Feels Like

Posted on January 30, 2012 by admin

MSL, Cruising NASA/JPL-Caltech Radiation data gathered by the rover’s instruments could inform future manned spacecraft designs Last week’s solar eruption and resulting radiation bombardment–the biggest recorded in seven years–made its presence felt here on Earth via altered flight paths for some planes in the Northern Hemisphere and a certain degree of hand-wringing over the health of satellites in the solar storm’s path. Continue reading →

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Space and Earth Science: Astrophysics – Glowing Stellar Cluster …

Posted on January 29, 2012 by admin

Space and Earth Science . Continue reading →

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[News & Analysis] Astronomy: Worldwide Telescope Aims to Look Into Milky Way Galaxy’s Black Heart

Posted on January 26, 2012 by admin

Last week, astronomers gathered to work out a plan to combine data from radio telescopes worldwide and create, in effect, a dish the size of Earth that will be able to peer into our galaxy’s heart. Continue reading →

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Video: Eight Years After Martian Touchdown, Opportunity Rover Soldiers On

Posted on January 25, 2012 by admin

Opportunity Rolls On Maas Digital LLC for Cornell University and NASA/JPL via Wikimedia Its solar panels are dusty and its instruments are weakening, but the intrepid Mars rover Opportunity is still undaunted. Continue reading →

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Video: Eight Years After Martian Touchdown, Opportunity Rover Soldiers On

Posted on January 25, 2012 by admin

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Pretty Earth Pics: This Is Our Marble

Posted on January 25, 2012 by admin

This Is Your Marble Click here to get a bigger view of this amazing image. Continue reading →

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A Massive Solar Eruption, the Strongest in 7 Years, Has Earth Bracing for a Radiation Storm

Posted on January 23, 2012 by admin

Sunday’s M9-Class Solar Flare, Whose Associated CME is Now Earth-Bound NASA/SDO and the AIA Consortium There was a time when one rarely had to worry about incoming doom born of outer space, but that time is not now. Continue reading →