Updated: 2012-08-31 20:17:56
An international crew of astronauts will soon start a 6 day exploration of uncharted caves on the island of Sardinia. With limited supplies and privacy, and isolated from the outside world, the training will simulate many of the trials of spaceflight
Updated: 2012-08-31 19:41:13
Part of Curiosity's Martian mission is to determine if methane is still being created on Mars. It might be tectonic activity deep underground, but it's also possible that something living beneath the martian surface could be creating the gas.
Updated: 2012-08-31 18:38:22
Another engine burn for Juno is planned this coming Tuesday.
Updated: 2012-08-31 15:47:45
Parts of the Saturn V test vehicle are assembled.
Updated: 2012-08-31 05:04:07
In a star cluster located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, massive stars are living fast and dying young. Their intense death throes as supernovas produce cavity-carving shockwaves that punch huge voids in surrounding gas clouds.
Updated: 2012-08-30 21:57:44
Tracks from the six-wheeled robot's historic first test drive on Mars.
Updated: 2012-08-30 20:44:52
Explore the mountains, cliffs, and craters of Vesta, one of the largest asteroids in the solar system. The data for this simulated flyover was gathered by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, which will leave Vesta for the dwarf planet Ceres in September.
Updated: 2012-08-30 20:17:30
Dawn spacecraft at the giant asteroid Vesta.
Updated: 2012-08-30 19:02:31
Dawn is due to depart Vesta on the night of Sept. 4.
Updated: 2012-08-30 16:47:48
Saturn's rings obscure part of Titan's colorful visage in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
Updated: 2012-08-30 16:37:54
The second full moon for the month of August 2012 will occur on Friday the 31st, which is commonly referred to as a 'blue moon'. But will it actually be blue? Or even red?
Updated: 2012-08-30 13:29:11
Cassini snapped the pictures, which were released Wednesday.
Updated: 2012-08-30 09:27:17
See photos of NASA's new twin spacecraft, the Radiation Storm Belt Probes, launching on Aug. 30, 2012.
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Updated: 2012-08-30 07:52:30
This computer generated montage shows Neptune as it would appear from a spacecraft approaching Triton, Neptune's largest moon.
Updated: 2012-08-30 07:10:59
Artist's concept illustrates Kepler-47, the first transiting circumbinary system -- multiple planets orbiting two suns.
Updated: 2012-08-30 05:18:15
With the sun rising behind the photographer, the Belt of Venus is the pinkish streak caused by the atmosphere reflecting light from the setting or rising sun.
Updated: 2012-08-29 22:46:49
A series of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) resembling a light bulb erupted from the sun on August 20, 2012. The only question is, what was the sun's big idea?
Updated: 2012-08-29 22:21:37
The rounded coronal mass ejection was released by the sun on Aug. 20, 2012.
Updated: 2012-08-29 18:39:56
See photos of two full moons in August 2012, including a rare "blue moon."
Updated: 2012-08-02 19:21:48
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/.
Free Fall Capsule Drop Test — Photograph Number 354-595
In 1961, a drop capsule was developed at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., by Section 354, Engineering Research. [...]
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: 2012-06-04 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: 2012-05-31 19:26:12
Scientists have tried to find out how the planet’s environment came to contain methane gas, which co
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 [...]
