Articles tagged with "NASA"
Deep Impact Spacecraft to Make Final Flyby of Earth
On Sunday, US space agency NASA’s historic Deep Impact spacecraft will fly past Earth for the fifth and last time on its current University of Maryland-led EPOXI mission. At time of closest approach to Earth, the spacecraft will be about 30,400 kilometers (18,900 miles) above the South Atlantic. Mission navigators have tailored this trajectory to [...]
Gulf of Mexico Oil Slick Satellite Image
US space agency NASA’s Aqua satellite flew over the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday, June 10 at 19:05 UTC (3:05 p.m. EDT) and the satellite’s Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument successfully captured an image of the thickest part of the oil slick. Yes, the oil slick was clearly visible from above.
In the [...]
Atlantis ready for final mission to Space Station
US Space Shuttle Atlantis is ready for liftoff on Friday at 2.20 p.m. EDT. The STS-132 mission to the International Space Station will be the 32nd and final mission for the space shuttle. During the 12-day mission, Atlantis and it’s six astronauts crew will deliver an Integrated Cargo Carrier and a Russian-built Mini Research Module, [...]
Discovery ready for STS-131 mission to Space Station
US Space Shuttle Discovery is ready to begin it’s journey to the International Space Station. Commander Alan Poindexter is set to lead the STS-131 mission. Joining Poindexter will be Pilot Jim Dutton and Mission Specialists Rick Mastracchio, Clay Anderson, Dorothy Metcalf-Lindenburger, Stephanie Wilson and Naoko Yamazaki of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency.
The STS-131 [...]
NASA radar on Chandrayaan-I spots Water Ice on Moon
A NASA radar aboard India’s Chandrayaan-1 lunar orbiter has detected ice deposits, near the moon’s north pole. Using data from NASA’s Mini-SAR instrument, a lightweight, synthetic aperture radar, scientists found more than 40 small craters with water ice. The Moon craters range in size from 1 to 9 miles (2 to15 km) in diameter and [...]
NASA “Puffin” Personal Aircraft Design unveiled
US space agency NASA is working on a flying suit or jet pack that can fly at 240 kilometers per hour speed carrying a person. The conceptual project has been named "Puffin" and NASA officially unveil the design on January 20, 2010 at an American Helicopter Society meeting in San Francisco. Take a look at [...]
Annular Solar Eclipse on January 15
On Friday, January 15th, a nearly total solar eclipse will be visible from Africa and Asia. The first solar eclipse of 2010 is special because it is an annular eclipse, in which the Moon doesn’t completely cover the disc of the Sun, and a small "annulus" (ring) of Sun surrounds the Moon.
According to NASA, [...]
Hubble uncovers earliest Galaxies of the Universe
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has broken all the previous distance limits for galaxies and uncovered a population of compact and ultra-blue galaxies that have never been seen before. These newly found galaxies pushes back the time when galaxies began to form to 500-600 million years after the Big Bang, which took place about 13.7 billion [...]
Tropical Cyclone 05B to hit India on Monday
Tropical Cyclone 05B has formed out of "System 96B" in the Northern Indian Ocean and is forecast to approach southeastern India by Sunday, December 13 and make landfall on Monday. On Friday, December 11 at 15:00 UTC (10 a.m. ET or 8 p.m. local Asia/ Kolkata time in Chennai, India), Tropical Storm 05B had maximum [...]
NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope looks at Microquasars
NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has made the first unambiguous detection of high-energy gamma-rays from an enigmatic binary system known as Cygnus X-3. The system pairs a hot, massive star with a compact object — either a neutron star or a black hole — that blasts twin radio-emitting jets of matter into space at more [...]
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