NASA | MAVEN Imaging Ultraviolet Spectrograph The philosophy of NASA's Mars Program has been “Follow the water,” but “Where did the atmosphere go?” is still a lingering question. Continue reading
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Where Did Mars’ Atmosphere Go? NASA To Investigate | Video – Video
Where Did Mars' Atmosphere Go? NASA To Investigate | Video The MAVEN mission to Mars will use an Ultraviolet Spectrograph (IUVS) to study the extremely thin Martian atmosphere. This will help scientists better unders.. Continue reading
What Happened to the Martian Atmosphere? | NASA MAVEN Space Science HD – Video
What Happened to the Martian Atmosphere? | NASA MAVEN Space Science HD Visit my website at http://www.junglejoel.com – Maven will study the atmosphere of Mars using its Imaging Ultraviolet Spectrograph (IUVS). The goal is to fin.. Continue reading
Spacecraft full of supplies on way to International Space Station
ATV-4 cargo spacecraft in artist’s rendering. Credit: ESA PARIS, June 6 (UPI) — The European Space Agency says a giant robotic freighter launched towards the International Space Station is the heaviest it has ever put into orbit. Continue reading
NASA aircraft to study how pollution, storms and climate interact
NASA’s DC-8 flying laboratory for the Studies of Emissions, Atmospheric Composition, Clouds and Climate Coupling by Regional Surveys (SEAC4RS) campaign to investigate how pollution and natural emissions affect atmospheric composition and climate. Credit: NASA/Lori Losey HOUSTON, June 6 (UPI) — NASA says it will conduct research flights over the southern United States to study how pollution, storms and climate mix and affect each other. In the agency’s most complex airborne science campaign of the year, several aircraft will take to the skies this summer to investigate how air pollution and natural emissions, when pushed high into the atmosphere by large storms, affect atmospheric composition and climate Continue reading
NASA to study how pollution, storms and climate mix
June 6, 2013 NASA aircraft will take to the skies over the southern United States this summer to investigate how air pollution and natural emissions, which are pushed high into the atmosphere by large storms, affect atmospheric composition and climate. NASA will conduct its most complex airborne science campaign of the year from Houston’s Ellington Field, which is operated by the agency’s Johnson Space Center, beginning Aug Continue reading
NASA Open to Hitching Ride to the Moon, Agency Chief Says
COCOA BEACH, Fla. The United States has no plans to orchestrate a mission to send astronauts back to the Moon, but if someone else is going NASA wants a seat. “I have never said the United States is not going back to the lunar surface. Continue reading
Launchpad: SAGE III Goes to the International Space Station – Video
Launchpad: SAGE III Goes to the International Space Station NASA's third generation science instrument, SAGE III, sheds light on how aerosols, water vapor and other gases interact with and affect our atmosphere. See h… Continue reading
Neutrinos spark 'new astronomy era'
15 May 2013 Last updated at 13:10 ET By Jason Palmer Science and technology reporter, BBC News An experiment buried beneath the ice of the South Pole has for the first time seen the particles called neutrinos originating outside our Solar System. Continue reading
NASA Moon Probe Sheds Light on Space Radiation Risks
A NASA moon probe equippd with plastic that mimics living tissue is helping researchers learn how deep-space radiation may affect astronauts and electronics on future missions, researchers say. Continue reading
NASA touts plan to grab asteroid as 'unprecedented technological feat'
Watch a series of animations from NASA showing how the asteroid retrieval mission might unfold. By Alan Boyle, Science Editor, NBC News NASA says it will begin work on an ambitious mission to capture a near-Earth asteroid and bring it to a stable orbit in the Earth-moon system as part of the agency’s overall $17.7 billion agenda for the coming year. The budget request for fiscal year 2014, unveiled on Wednesday, also aims to get U.S Continue reading
Space station capsule problem appears fixed
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) A commercial craft carrying a ton of supplies for the International Space Station ran into thruster trouble shortly after liftoff Friday. Continue reading
Robotic Russian Supply Ship Leaves Space Station
An unmanned Russian cargo ship undocked from the International Space Station Saturday (Feb. Continue reading
Creech St Michael teenager in space flight competition
Creech St Michael teenager in space flight competition 6:30am Friday 1st February 2013 in News By Daniel Milligan A TEENAGER with a keen interest in space hopes to book his flight into the atmosphere by winning a global competition. Continue reading
Major NASA Air Pollution Study To Fly Over California
A multi-year NASA airborne science mission is on its way to California to help scientists better understand how to measure and forecast air quality globally from space. Two NASA aircraft equipped with scientific instruments will fly over the San Joaquin Valley between Bakersfield and Fresno in January and February to measure air pollution. Continue reading
Geoengineering Through Aerial Dispersion in Brevard County, Florida / Aerial Acoustic Acclimation – Video
Geoengineering Through Aerial Dispersion in Brevard County, Florida / Aerial Acoustic Acclimation Unknown dispersion over Brevard County, Florida on February 23, 2009. Continue reading
Maven's Haven: NASA's Next Mars Mission Preps for Launch
LITTLETON, Colo. NASA’s next mission to the Red Planet is undergoing extensive testing in preparation for its launch next year. Continue reading
The Simpsons Season 6 Episode 14 – Bart’s Comet – Video
The Simpsons Season 6 Episode 14 – Bart's Comet www.simpsonshere.com Principal Skinner releases a weather balloon, but Bart turns it into an anti-Skinner prank. Principal Skinner is upset, so Bart's punishment is to help him log amateur astronomy sky coordinates. Bart gets up at 4:30 AM to assist Skinner. Continue reading
NASA | Death-Defying Comets Explore the Sun’s Atmosphere – Video
NASA | Death-Defying Comets Explore the Sun's Atmosphere To observe how winds move high in Earth's atmosphere, scientists sometimes release clouds of barium as tracers to track how the material corkscrews and sweeps around� but scientists have no similar technique to study the turbulent atmosphere of the sun. So researchers were excited in December 2011, when Comet Lovejoy swept right through the sun's corona with its long tail streaming behind it. Continue reading
NASA aims to send another rover to Mars in 2020
LOS ANGELES (AP) NASA is headed to Mars again. The space agency said Tuesday it plans to launch another mega-rover to Mars in 2020 that will be modeled after the wildly popular Curiosity. To keep costs down, engineers will borrow Curiosity’s blueprints, build from spare parts where possible and use proven technology including the novel landing system that delivered the car-size rover inside an ancient crater in August Continue reading