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If and when robotic spacecraft or human explorers reach the surface of Jupiter's icy moon Europa, they could begin exploring it based on data collected by a team of Russian experts currently digging their way into Lake Vostok.
This particular lake is very special. Buried under 2 miles (3.7 kilometers) of Antar... |
14 February 2012
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The computer processor aboard the NASA Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) experienced a small glitch about three days after the mission launched. Now, scientists say that they were able to figure out what went wrong, and correct the error. The event is unlikely to cause any damages or delays to the mission.
The MSL is a ... |
10 February 2012
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Experts operating the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) announce that the orbiter was recently able to observe two defunct Martian missions from its orbital perch. The Mars Exploration Rover Spirit and the Phoenix Mars Lander completed both of their missions successfully.
Spirit, or MER-A, has been inactive since 20... |
10 February 2012
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Experts at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), in Pasadena, California, announce that the GALEX spacecraft has been placed on stand-by. The telescope has been investigating the Universe for nearly 9 years, even though its mission was originally supposed to last for just 2 and a half years.
Launched on April 28... |
9 February 2012
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The conclusions of a new scientific investigation reveal that several large-scale climate patterns interacted in such a way during December 2011 that they were able to prevent snowfall from falling over huge parts of North America and Europe. The month was one of the driest on record in the United States, as well a... |
8 February 2012
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Experts at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), in Pasadena, California, say that the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) rover Curiosity is carrying an unusual calibration target for one of its cameras – a coin attached to a plaque the size of a standard smartphone.
The object will primarily be used for calib... |
8 February 2012
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Officials at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), in Pasadena, California announce that the Juno spacecraft has just completed a new course-correction maneuver. This will place it on a more efficient trajectory towards Jupiter, its final destination. The maneuver began at 10:10 am PST (1810 GMT) on February 1,... |
3 February 2012
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Experts managing the Ebb lunar orbiter have just released the first video the spacecraft made of regions on the far side of the Moon. The probe arrived in orbit around Earth's natural satellite on December 31, 2011, and is scheduled to begin its full science mission next month.
Ebb is one of the twin NASA Grav... |
2 February 2012
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Officials at NASA are currently celebrating Opportunity's eight anniversary on the surface of Mars. The event stretches from January 24-25, since the machine arrived at Mars at 21:05 PST, but 12:05 am EST the following day, in 2004.
The spacecraft is the second of two Mars Exploration Rovers (MER), and it land... |
25 January 2012
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The Mars Exploration Rover (MER) Opportunity is celebrating its 8th anniversary on the surface of the Red Planet today, January 24. The spacecraft took off aboard a Delta II 7925 rocket on July 7, 2003, and landed successfully in Meridiani Planum on January 24, 2004.
Originally scheduled to endure on the Martian su... |
24 January 2012
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Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is of great interest to astronomers because it's the most Earth-like object in the solar system. One of the most recent studies conducted on the body was aimed at surveying its dunes using radars, and experts say that this allowed them to learn more about the moon's past c... |
24 January 2012
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As winter on the Red Planet prepares to descend over Opportunity's current location, mission managers at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), are continuously planning how to use the rover without draining it of its energy. A solution would be for the machine to analyze the planet's interior.Such studi... |
20 January 2012
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Mission controllers at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), in Pasadena, California, want the Voyager 1 spacecraft to continue collecting and transmitting data until at least 2025. In order for the probe to do that, it needs to manage its dwindling power supplies extremely well.
The spacecraft has already been... |
19 January 2012
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Recent observations conducted with the NASA Jason-1 and -2 satellites have revealed that La Niña is returning to the tropical Pacific Ocean. This coupled, ocean-atmosphere phenomenon can cause severe weather disruptions throughout North America and, to a lesser extent, the entire world.
It is caused by shifts... |
19 January 2012
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The Russian Federal Space Agency's (RosCosmos) Phobos-Grunt spacecraft – which was launched on November 8 towards the Martian moon Phobos, but subsequently failed in Earth's orbit – may have been adversely affected by US radars, the conclusions of an investigation by Russian engineers show.
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18 January 2012
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A team of scientists was recently able to image the magma chamber underneath the Mount Kilauea volcano, in Hawaii. In order to do that, the experts never had to install measuring equipment of the mountain's slope or dig their way deep underground, but rather soar high in the sky above it. Using a special type of... |
13 January 2012
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A failure in the radio system aboard the Cassini spacecraft orbiting Saturn has its mission controllers at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), in Pasadena, California, on the edge. The probe is fairly old, and is now communicating with Earth by using a backup system.
The orbiter has been studying Saturn, its m... |
13 January 2012
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Yesterday, January 11, the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) rover Curiosity completed its first course-correction maneuver in a series that will eventually ensure it reaches the Red Planet. The purpose of these maneuvers is to separate the Atlas V upper stage from the vehicle carrying Curiosity.
The upper stage was not... |
12 January 2012
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Experts at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), in Pasadena, California, announce that they will conduct the first course correction maneuver for the Mars Science Laboratory mission on January 11.
The MSL rover Curiosity is currently still inside a clamshell-like protective fairing, which was attached to the... |
7 January 2012
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Mars Exploration Rovers (MER) mission managers at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) say that Opportunity will spend its next winter on the Red Planet at a location called Greeley Haven. Following preliminary analyses, the area promises to provide interesting science for a long time. The exploration robot is c... |
6 January 2012
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Yesterday, January 3, the Mars Exploration Rover (MER) Spirit turned 8 since arriving on the surface of Mars. The spacecraft landed there on January 3, 2004, followed several days later by its sister rover, Opportunity. The latter arrived on January 25.
The two were supposed to operate for about three months, and d... |
4 January 2012
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The Radiation Assessment Detector (RAD) instrument aboard the NASA Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) spacecraft has been turned on, allowing experts at the American space agency to measure radiation levels around the probe as it is beginning its 8-month travel to the Red Planet.
Knowing how much radiation is in space &... |
14 December 2011
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According to officials at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), in Pasadena, California, the Dawn spacecraft has finally entered its fourth and final orbit around the giant asteroid Vesta. Its current path is called the low-altitude mapping orbit (LAMO).
This orbit takes it at an average altitude of about 130 mi... |
13 December 2011
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Officials at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), in Pasadena, California, announce that the Cassini spacecraft will be carrying out a double flyby over the course of 36 hours, starting on December 12. Within this time frame, the probe will see both Dione and Titan.
The Dione flyby will occur first, and will... |
10 December 2011
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The 2011 NASA Software of the Year prize was awarded to the Autonomous Exploration for Gathering Increased Science (AEGIS) software, which was installed on the NASA Mars Exploration Rover (MER) Opportunity in December 2009.
The program was put together by experts at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), in Pasad... |
9 December 2011
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Experts at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) announce the release of a new tool for viewing Mars, which allows users to hike over thousands of square miles of surface. All the images included in this viewer were collected in high-resolution, and are freely available to anyone.
HiView, which is available for ... |
8 December 2011
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In a new image the NASA Dawn spacecraft collected of the giant asteroid Vesta, the geological layers and ingredients that make up the space rock are made clearly visible. The false-color photo depicts the protoplanet in never-before-seen detail.
The photo has a resolution of 480 meters per pixel, and was captured u... |
6 December 2011
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On Thursday, November 24, mission controllers at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), in Pasadena, California, sent a series of commands to the Deep Impact spacecraft. The orders were to fire up its onboard rocket motors for 140 seconds, altering its paths so that its options remain opened. The probe successfu... |
2 December 2011
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The NASA Cassini orbiter recently managed to snap a new series of photos covering the Saturnine moon Enceladus, and the results were somewhat surprising to astronomers. They discovered the that object's surface displays a glow that was not apparent to Cassini until just now.
The spacecraft was able to see it b... |
2 December 2011
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For at least a month from now on, the NASA Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission will require no course corrections, mission controllers at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) announce.
They say that the launch was carried out exquisitely, placing the spacecraft on such a precise course that the first... |
2 December 2011
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Experts at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), in Pasadena, California, have just released a new video showing the largest asteroid in our solar system, Vesta, in 3D. The short clip was put together from data collected by the NASA Dawn mission, which is currently orbiting the space rock.
The spacecraft entere... |
2 December 2011
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Popular Science magazine has just announced that three missions managed by the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), in Pasadena, California, will be recognized by the “Best of What's New” Award in the publication's aviation and space category.
PopSci says that the three winners are the NASA Da... |
1 December 2011
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Experts at NASA were surprise at the extent of the Texan droughts revealed by new groundwater distribution maps produced by the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellites.
A joint mission between NASA and the German Aerospace Center (DLR), GRACE are highly-advanced spacecraft, capable of conducting ... |
1 December 2011
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The Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) launched successfully from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Saturday, November 26. It was carried to orbit aboard an Atlas V delivery system at 7:02 am EST (1502 GMT), and was then successfully placed in its correct transport orbit.
MSL is scheduled to take several months to... |
28 November 2011
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For nearly an entire Earth year, a massive storm devastated the atmosphere above Saturn, baffling experts with its unusual intensity. Data collected by the NASA Cassini orbiter as the storm took place have now been centralized in a series of images and animations of what went on.
Researchers hope to use these data t... |
18 November 2011
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The American space agency has selected two of its California-based research centers to conduct a new series of investigations into two potentially game-changing technologies related to space exploration.
The work could lead to the development of new methods for detecting and analyzing extrasolar planets, as well as ... |
18 November 2011
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Experts with the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), in Pasadena, California, and the agency's Deep Space Network (DSN) confirm that the Voyager 2 spacecraft has received and completed instructions sent to it on November 4, regarding the switch to a backup set of thrusters.
These particular motors are respon... |
15 November 2011
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According to the conclusions of a new computer simulation carried out by researchers at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in Pasadena, California, it would appear that the earliest stars in the Universe were not as massive as previous studies suggested.
Until now, astronomers believed that the first stars to form... |
11 November 2011
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On Monday, November 7, the scientists with the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in Pasadena, California, used the agency's Deep Space Network (DSN) antenna, in Goldstone, to conduct radio observations of the incoming asteroid 2005 YU55. The team was able to create a short film following the campaign. The clip f... |
9 November 2011
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The Goldstone, California-based NASA Deep Space Network (DSN) antenna has collected the first close-up images of asteroid 2005 YU55. The space rock caused quite a stir among those who are frightful that the world will end soon. Other observations of the asteroid will begin today.
The DSN is a 70-meter (230-foot) rad... |
8 November 2011
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A team of astronomers from the Brown University, in Providence, Rhodes Island, says that the current interpretation of geological data collected from Mars may be wrong. The experts propose that the vast majority of water that once flowed on the surface of the Red Planet can still be found underground.
This new idea ... |
3 November 2011
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When the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) Preparatory Project (NPP) satellite launched to space on October 28, it also carried a number of five smaller CubeSats. One of these probes is carrying an experiment developed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
The instrument is inst... |
3 November 2011
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After completing their swing through the inner solar system this fall, the remnants of comet Elenin will head out towards the edges of the solar system once more. The patch of debris remained after the object was destroyed earlier this year is now of even less threat than the original comet was.
For some, comet El... |
26 October 2011
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On October 16, Charles Elachi – the director of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), in Pasadena, California – received the prestigious Arthur M. Bueche Award from the US National Academy of Engineering, in recognition of his life's work. The prize was awarded to Elachi for “extraordinary ... |
25 October 2011
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Those who argued strong and loud that comet Elenin would cause catastrophic natural events as it zipped past Earth were brought to silence on Sunday, October 16. Pieces of the object zipped past our planet without ushering in the apocalypse.Some people were convinced that this object was the infamous planet Nibiru, h... |
19 October 2011
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Mission controllers at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), in Pasadena, California, announce that the Cassini spacecraft will carry out a new flyby of the Saturnine moon Enceladus today, October 19. As it will attempt to image the object's geysers, the probe will use light from stars in Orion's Belt.A... |
19 October 2011
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Since July 16, when it entered orbit around the solar system's largest asteroid, the NASA Dawn space probe has been collecting a wealth of data on the space rock. Now, mission controllers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), in Pasadena, California, are sharing the findings with their colleagues.The early sci... |
18 October 2011
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Officials at NASA announced recently that the agency is working on a new generation of atomic clock, devices used for keeping exquisitely-precise track of time. At this point, spacecraft for instance rely on GPS satellites, which do have some degree of error. The goal of the American space agency is to develop a tech... |
17 October 2011
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Recent studies trying to establish what exactly tilted Uranus's orbit to a 98-degree angle have reawaken a great deal of interest in the ice giant. Now, experts are proposing a new mission to the celestial body, in hopes of unlocking more of its many mysteries.
The idea is not new. Many such missions were pr... |
13 October 2011
08:50 GMT |
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Data collected by the NASA Dawn space probe indicated a short time ago that Vesta – its mission target and the largest asteroid in the solar system – houses the largest mountain ever discovered. Now, new data show the landscape feature from a different perspective.
The mountain on Vesta is roughly 13 ... |
11 October 2011
03:47 GMT |
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