Posts Tagged ‘NASA’

Scientists working with the ground-penetrating Shallow Radar instrument on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have spotted vast water glaciers under blankets of rocky debris on planet Mars. This discovery once again encourages scientists to search for life beyond planet Earth. The concealed glaciers extend for tens ... Full story

US space agency NASA's Hubble Telescope has captured for the first time pictures of a planet circling another star outside of our solar system. About three times the Jupiter's mass, the planet - Fomalhaut b - orbits the bright southern star Fomalhaut, which is located at 25 light-years away in the constellation Piscis Australis or the "Southern Fish". Take a look at the ... Full story

US space agency NASA said that it has encountered problems with the Hubble space telescope following a remote switchover from the failed system to an on-board redundant system. Now the 18-year-old observatory might remain inactive until astronauts from Earth arrive with a replacement part next year. On Wednesday, flight ... Full story

A problem with one of the Hubble Space Telescope's computers prompted NASA to delay next month's shuttle Atlantis maintenance mission until February next year. Earlier, the Hubble maintenance mission had been targeted for takeoff on October 14. On September 27, Hubble's Control Unit/Science Data Formatter - Side A started to show problems in ... Full story

NASA has delayed the launch of space shuttle Atlantis by two days, because of tropical storms. NASA announced it on Friday, one day after moving Atlantis to the launch pad. Now, Atlantis is scheduled for a take off on October 10. Through Atlantis, NASA plans to dispatch a crew of ... Full story

U.S. space agency NASA will look at the possibility to continue the current space shuttle programme until 2015, when it's replacement, Ares-Orion, will be launched. Florida newspaper the Orlando Sentinel revealed this on Friday, after they obtained a leaked internal NASA e-mail. Presently, the space shuttle programme is scheduled for retirement in 2010.... Full story

On Friday, NASA have destroyed an unmanned experimental rocket carrying a pair of research satellites. Moments after the early morning liftoff, the launch officials detected that the prototype made by Alliant Techsystems Inc. veered off course. So, they activated a self-destruct mechanism in the rocket's nose cone that destroyed the rocket at 11,000 to 12,000 feet above ground.... Full story

On July 30, 2008, NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander confirmed that planet Mars has water, at least in the form of ice. The Phoenix lander's robotic arm delivered the sample on Wednesday, to an instrument that identifies vapors produced by the heating of samples. And the result was positive to confirm that panet Mars contains water.... Full story