• A Look Inside Dawn’s Grand Asteroid Adventure

    Updated: 2012-02-02 01:03:11
    By Marc Rayman As NASA’s Dawn spacecraft investigates its first target, the giant asteroid Vesta, Marc Rayman, Dawn’s chief engineer, shares a monthly update on the mission’s progress. The south pole of the giant asteroid Vesta, as imaged by the framing camera on NASA’s Dawn spacecraft in September 2011. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA | › Full image and caption [...]

  • NEOShield News ($5.3M EU Planetary Defense Study)

    Updated: 2012-01-29 15:57:00
    : This area will cover relevant news of the threat to the planet from Near Earth Objects NEOs including concepts and designs for mitigation . All opinions are those of the . author 29 January 2012 NEOShield News 5.3M EU Planetary Defense Study From a paper on the NEOShield project There is currently no concerted international plan addressing the impact threat and how to organize , prepare and implement mitigation measures . We report on a new international project to address impact hazard mitigation issues , being the subject of a proposal to the European Commission in response to the 2011 FP7 Call Prevention of impacts from near-Earth objects on our planet” . Our consortium consists of 13 research institutes , universities , and industrial partners and includes leading US and Russian

  • Agenda and Findings of 6th Meeting of the NASA Small Bodies Assessment Group Meeting

    Updated: 2012-01-29 15:31:00
    : This area will cover relevant news of the threat to the planet from Near Earth Objects NEOs including concepts and designs for mitigation . All opinions are those of the . author 29 January 2012 Agenda and Findings of 6th Meeting of the NASA Small Bodies Assessment Group Meeting From January 17-18, 2012 in Washington , DC USA , there was the 6th Meeting of the NASA Small Bodies Assessment Group The agenda , selected presentations and findings are now . online Here are the findings . SBAG 6 FINDINGS Finding 1. The SBAG is pleased that the PDS Small Bodies Node is developing an interface to search the numerous and diverse data sets related to small bodies . The Data Ferret has a nice interface for returning information about data on individually identified objects . At present , this is

  • Slice of History: Surveyor 3 Camera Returned from the Moon

    Updated: 2012-01-24 20:35:04
    By Julie Cooper Each month in “Slice of History” we feature a historical photo from the JPL Archives. See more historical photos and explore the JPL Archives at https://beacon.jpl.nasa.gov/. Surveyor 3 Camera Returned from the Moon — Photograph Number P-10709B In November 1969 Apollo 12 astronauts Alan Bean and Pete Conrad landed on the moon less than 600 [...]

  • Press Release: Thirty Percent for Science: Planetary Society Calls for Increased Investment for the Future

    Updated: 2012-01-19 08:00:00
    On the Planetary Society web site: Thirty Percent for Science: Planetary Society Calls for Increased Investment for the Future

  • Red Huber signing shuttle calendars on Janaury 19

    Updated: 2012-01-18 18:24:15
    Orlando Sentinel senior staff photographer Red Huber will be signing copies of his 2012 Space Shuttle calendar on Thursday, January 19. Huber will be in the main lobby of the Sentinel at 633 North Orange Avenue in downtown Orlando from noon until 3 p.m. Huber signed calendars for the public in December and there was a [...]

  • Dawn Longs to be Closer to Asteroid Vesta

    Updated: 2012-01-12 21:43:39
    By Marc Rayman As NASA’s Dawn spacecraft investigates its first target, the giant asteroid Vesta, Marc Rayman, Dawn’s chief engineer, shares a monthly update on the mission’s progress. This image, one of the first obtained by NASA’s Dawn spacecraft in its low altitude mapping orbit, shows part of the rim of a fresh crater on the giant [...]

  • NASA tries to settle fight over its artifacts

    Updated: 2012-01-09 22:20:02
    WASHINGTON — Hoping to settle a feud inside the NASA family, NASA Chief Charlie Bolden met Monday with several Apollo astronauts upset with how the agency recently has blocked them from selling space artifacts from their personal collections. While no final agreement was reached, NASA officials said talks were moving in the right direction. “These are American [...]

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