• Rosetta: mission to land on a comet

    Updated: 2012-03-30 18:00:22
    : Subscribe Today Renew Give a Gift Archives Customer Service Facebook Twitter Newsletter SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS Desktop Project Part 5 : The mighty , mighty Dragonfish Desktop Project Part 6 : Psychedelic topographic Moon Rosetta : mission to land on a comet In 2014, the European Space Agency’s Rosetta probe will enter orbit around a comet the first time this will have ever been done and then drop a lander on it and oh yeah , that’s the first time this will have ever been done , too . I’m pretty excited about this mission , and NASA and ESA have put together this really well-done video explaining the mission and what it’ll : do I found this on the Rosetta Blog which has been a great

  • Alien vs. Editor: A Pigment of Your Imagination?

    Updated: 2012-03-30 17:50:10
    By Steve Edberg Alien vs. Editor is a forum for questions and answers about extrasolar planets and NASA’s search for life beyond our solar system. Leave your questions for author Steve Edberg and read more on the PlanetQuest website. Where would blue-skinned aliens exist? Joel asked: If you were to find aliens next to the sun, why would [...]

  • All Eyes on Asteroid Vesta

    Updated: 2012-03-30 16:59:40
    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 from NASA’s Dawn spacecraft shows a young crater on Vesta that is 9 miles (15 kilometers) in diameter. Layering is visible in the crater walls, as are [...]

  • Press Release: Asteroid 2012 DA14 Discovery Enabled by Planetary Society Grant

    Updated: 2012-03-15 07:00:00
    On the Planetary Society web site: Asteroid 2012 DA14 Discovery Enabled by Planetary Society Grant

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