Updated: 2012-07-30 18:08:58
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.
Three impact craters of different sizes, arranged in the shape of a snowman, make up one of the most striking features on Vesta, as seen in this view from [...]
Updated: 2012-07-14 17:26:00
Astronomy Blog You are : in Astronomy Blog archive 1 million Earths An astronomy blog usually but not always based in the UK . Pondering questions such as What is in an exoplanet name 1 million Earths Have you ever tried to visualize how many Earth's would fit in the Sun The Sun's diameter is roughly 100 times larger than the Earth's so , in volume , that means around 100x100x100 1 million Earth's fit within the Sun . 1 million is a large number and can be tricky to imagine . The Universe Awareness Project in Germany have created this ball of Earth's to show exactly . that Each small blue ball represents the Earth . The plastic sphere represents the Sun . : CREDIT UNAWE DE Stuart Tags : Sun Earth visualization outreach UNAWE Posted in astro blog by Stuart on Saturday 14th Jul 2012 17:26
Updated: 2012-07-10 20:36:20
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/.
Remote Controlled Manipulators — Photograph Number 381-4778B
The NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s 1971 Annual Report featured this photo of a remote controlled system for handling solid propellants. A 1965 [...]
Updated: 2012-07-09 23:43:38
By Duane Roth
Cassini Has a Special View of Saturn These Days - How Did It Get There?
For the past 18 months, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has been orbiting Saturn in practically the same plane as the one that slices through the planet’s equator. Beginning with the Titan flyby on May 22, navigators started to tilt Cassini’s [...]
Updated: 2012-07-05 23:22:56
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 rock material that has moved across the surface and flowed into a low area in the ridged floor of the Rheasilvia basin [...]
Updated: 2012-07-04 22:55:00
Thanks to years of effort by people on CMS, ATLAS and the LHC, a Higgs-like particle has been found at CERN. That is the last missing part of the Standard Model. As the head of CERN said, next on the list for physicists is the "dark" Universe. Exciting times. - taken from Astronomy Blog (www.strudel.org.uk/blog/astro/)
Updated: 2012-07-02 10:16:00
Astronomy Blog You are : in Astronomy Blog archive APOD Outages An astronomy blog usually but not always based in the UK . Pondering questions such as What is in an exoplanet name APOD Outages Over the past few days the Washington D.C . area and others were affected by a Derecho a violent , straight-line , wind storm . It has caused considerable damage including knocking out power to over 1 million people . The power outage has affected Goddard Space Flight Centre and the result is that the main Astronomy Picture of the Day server is . offline I hadn't appreciated that the storm would affect me over here in Wales . Yesterday lunchtime some comments on Twitter alerted me to the problem . I quickly discovered that the main server was down and then saw that the mirror sites were stuck on 30th
Updated: 2012-06-05 21:33:00
Astronomy Blog You are : in Astronomy Blog archive Transit of Venus 2012 An astronomy blog usually but not always based in the UK . Pondering questions such as What is in an exoplanet name Transit of Venus 2012 Eight years ago on 8th June 2004 I was lucky enough to see the transit of Venus from Jodrell Bank Observatory . The website I made for that is still around . Over the next few hours we'll have another transit of Venus the last until 2117 The transit will be viewable from many places on Earth . If you don't have a view of the Sun from where you are clouds or the planet getting in the way there are plenty of live feeds : online LCOGT and the Institute for Astronomy , Hawaii The RAS via the GLORIA project NASA Edge Astronomers Without Borders Planet Hunters and more If you decide to
Updated: 2012-06-04 18:03:55
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.
On May 3, 2011, the mapping camera on NASA’s Dawn spacecraft captured its first image (left) of the giant asteroid Vesta. Only 5 pixels across, the image didn’t provide [...]
Updated: 2012-06-04 17:22:01
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/.
Something is Missing … — Photograph Number JB-16114B
To anyone who came to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., after 1975, this photo may seem odd – [...]
Updated: 2012-05-10 19:17:45
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/.
Scanning Electron Microscope — Photograph Number 354-1043B
In late 1967, this Stereoscan Mark VI scanning electron microscope (SEM) was delivered to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory by the Cambridge Instrument [...]
Updated: 2012-05-03 00:10:49
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 artist’s concept shows NASA’s Dawn spacecraft orbiting the giant asteroid Vesta. The depiction of Vesta is based on images obtained by Dawn’s framing cameras. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech |
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Updated: 2012-04-06 11:00:40
Ephemeris for Good Friday, Friday, April 6th. The sun will rise at 7:13. It’ll be up for 13
