Tag: "nasa"
Phoebe: Quirky, Mystical, Magical Moon
Phoebe, a quirky outlying moon of Saturn, was once thought to be a captured comet, but now is believed by some scientists to be something much rarer: a captured planetesimal.
Post on May 04, 2012 by Ben Burress from QUEST Northern California
Solar FireworX: First X-Class Flare of the Year
The first X-Class solar flare of the year went off yesterday, on March 7th, in spectacular fashion. Fortunately the flare went off where it's supposed to: on the Sun. Had this intense magneto-plasmic explosion gone off on Earth, we'd be toast; one of these releases an amount of energy on the order of 100 billion megatons of TNT.
Post on Mar 09, 2012 by Ben Burress from QUEST Northern California
Operation Vesta: Pluto's Devious Plan to Regain Status?
With the New Horizons spacecraft hurtling toward its 2014 encounter with Pluto, and with the Dawn spacecraft now at its most up-close and personal encounter with Vesta, we are in the process of learning scads of information about two objects that are among the least understood and most under-explored bodies in the Solar System.
Post on Dec 30, 2011 by Ben Burress from QUEST Northern California
Kepler 22B: Exoplanet Dress-up Doll
It's 600 light years from Earth, orbits a star very similar to our Sun in a period of about 290 days, and has a diameter about two and a half times that of Earth. What is it? It's the NASA Kepler mission's most recent exciting confirmed discovery, the extrasolar-planet Kepler 22B.
Post on Dec 16, 2011 by Ben Burress from QUEST Northern California
Dumpster Diving on Mars
Ready for another great adventure to that fabled world, Mars? How about an interplanetary dumpster dive? Curious? Come with us to Gale Crater.
Post on Oct 07, 2011 by Ben Burress from QUEST Northern California
Opportunity's Endeavour
NASA's Opportunity rover has reached the goal of its three-year slog across the landscape of Mars!
Post on Sep 23, 2011 by Ben Burress from QUEST Northern California
Armchair Astronomy Takes Off On The Web
Take a look at some of the best resources on the Web for armchair astronomers.
Post on Sep 20, 2011 by Laura Khalil from QUEST Northern California
NASA’s WISE Spots Ys
NASA’s WISE spacecraft has revealed something new lurking in the dark: Y Dwarfs.
Post on Aug 26, 2011 by Ben Burress from QUEST Northern California
Dawn of A New Era
We have achieved orbit – that is, NASA's Dawn spacecraft is now orbiting and studying the large asteroid Vesta.
Post on Aug 12, 2011 by Ben Burress
A Year in the Life of an Ice Giant
Would you believe we discovered the planet Neptune only one year ago?
Post on Jul 15, 2011 by Ben Burress from QUEST Northern California
Dawn: Mission to Explore Strange New Worlds
We are soon to explore a new world, one that we haven't seen up close before: the asteroid Vesta. What will we find, and why are we even interested in what amounts to a mega-mountain of rock hurtling through space?
Post on Jun 30, 2011 by Ben Burress
Dark Endeavours
When NASA's Space Shuttle Endeavour lifted off on its 25th and final mission to space on Monday morning, it carried a bus-sized, two billion dollar observatory that will probe some of our Universe's deepest, darkest secrets: dark matter, and the unaccounted antimatter.
Post on May 20, 2011 by Ben Burress
Celebrating 50 Years with Yuri
50 years ago the launch of a bell-shaped capsule called “Vostok 1” on April 12th, 1961 by Soviet Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin made history as the first human to enter outer space. Yuri’s Night was created to connect and inspire the globe about human spaceflight.
Post on Apr 14, 2011 by Cat
The Word From Mercury: MESSENGER Has Been Delivered
History has been made yet again: NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft is now in orbit around the solar system's innermost planet!
Post on Apr 08, 2011 by Ben Burress
Mastodons, Mummies, and Meteorites: Evidence of Life Out There?
A recent publishing of the investigation of a rare class of meteorite (the CI1 Carbonaceous Chondrite) by Dr. Richard Hoover of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center has caused another stir among scientists and the news media regarding possible origins of life on Earth and life in the Universe in general.
Post on Mar 11, 2011 by Ben Burress
NASA's Cosmic Two-For-One Deal: A Return to Comet Tempel 1
On February 14, 2011, NASA encountered the comet Tempel 1 using the recycled Stardust spacecraft. For the first time in history, they visited the same comet twice – affording them the opportunity to observe changes in the icy body.
Post on Feb 25, 2011 by Ben Burress
Behind-The-Scenes at NASA Ames Research Center
NASA invites social media fans on Twitter to get an inside look at its research centers and speak with scientists and astronauts.
Post on Feb 15, 2011 by Laura Khalil
Kepler's Smokin' Performance: Zero to 68 in 4 Months!
NASA's Kepler mission announces the results from its first four months of observations: 1235 possible planets around other stars!
Post on Feb 11, 2011 by Ben Burress
Volcano Slushies and Floating Robots: Titanic Possibilities
Saturn’s little moon, Titan, just keeps getting more and more interesting.
Post on Jan 28, 2011 by Ben Burress
It's a Long, Long Way to Alderaan, but Kepler 10B is a Sight Closer
Among the thousands of vivid and unique Earth-sized planets we have come to know through Science Fiction, NASA's Kepler mission has now given us our first real one: meet Kepler 10b.
Post on Jan 14, 2011 by Ben Burress
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