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The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has just put its moon mission on indefinite hold due to technical glitch, in what seems to be a never ending streak of bad luck for the country's ambitious plans to get to the Moon.Called the Selenological and Engineering Explorer - or SELENE, the space probe was d... |
23 July 2007
04:17 GMT |
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Saturn is a curious planet, not because it's a gas giant, the second largest planet in the solar system, or because of the fact that its equatorial and polar diameters differ by almost 10%. The most interesting aspect of this giant is the number of satellites.People often enjoy gazing at the Moon, our only natu... |
20 July 2007
04:20 GMT |
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For many years, Venus, the second planet from the Sun and the brightest object in the night sky, refused to let astronomers peak under its opaque layer of highly reflective clouds of sulfuric acid, preventing its surface from being seen from space in visible light.Recent pictures taken by two missions designed to st... |
16 July 2007
06:17 GMT |
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A new breed of dogs could someday be sent to Mars to explore the surface, although they are now just barely learning to walk, climb rocks and jump. These robotic dogs are funny-looking robots, but could become more versatile than current rovers.Robotic probes are used in space exploration for some time now, like the... |
9 July 2007
04:17 GMT |
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This weekend, NASA will launch a new mission, the Dawn spacecraft, which will venture into the asteroid belt to rendez-vous with two of the largest asteroids in the solar system, Ceres and Vesta. The asteroid belt, located between Mars and Jupiter, is the largest concentration of asteroids in the solar system, wher... |
6 July 2007
06:36 GMT |
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Two old space probes just received new assignments, after they had fulfilled their original missions. Deep Impact and Stardust are the two robotic space travelers that NASA decided to reactivate and send to chase Comet Tempel 1.Deep Impact is a NASA space probe launched on January 12, 2005 that was designed to stud... |
4 July 2007
02:48 GMT |
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Samba and Tango are the names of two of ESA's four satellites in the Cluster mission that are now orbiting in formation, separated by only 17 km, the closest two ESA satellites have ever been. It is hoped that this tight formation will allow new scientific discoveries about the Sun and the solar wind.The Cluste... |
21 June 2007
12:22 GMT |
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In a rehearsal for the big event of meeting Mercury up close, the Messenger space probe is going to swing by Venus in a slingshot maneuver that will propel it towards the smallest planet in our solar system.NASA's spacecraft Messenger (MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry and Ranging) is a mission l... |
5 June 2007
02:53 GMT |
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A long-standing mystery about Mars' sand dunes may have just been sold by scientists. The strange thing about the dunes is that they look as if they were created by winds, but there are no winds on the surface of Mars.Discovered in 1971 in pictures taken from space, above the surface, they look very similar to ... |
16 May 2007
05:01 GMT |
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The four "STAR" rocket stages are the boosters that made it possible for probes like Voyager 1, Voyager 2 and Pioneer 10 to defeat the Earth's gravity and lift into space. Now, the two Voyager spacecraft continue to operate, carrying with them a golden record that contains pictures and sounds of Earth, along w... |
9 May 2007
04:24 GMT |
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The next robotic probe scheduled to land on Mars is the Phoenix Mars Lander, a new rover built for the purpose of touching and analyzing Martian water for the first time. Right now it is being prepared for launch at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.As a result of the partnership of universities from the ... |
9 May 2007
03:39 GMT |
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NASA's OPRA warthog robot will have to dig for ice under the soil with a robotic "shovel," but new infrared images will tell him exactly how deep he has to dig to find it.The new thermal images show underground ice depth can vary significantly on the Mars, being right at the surface in one spot but several fee... |
3 May 2007
16:06 GMT |
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More and more, scientists, militarists, and governments are investing large amounts of resources in an intriguing, futuristic technology - fleets of small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).The main reason for investing in UAV technology lies in the replacement of the traditional, open battleground with the urban theat... |
4 April 2007
02:49 GMT |
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