NASA TT 9/28 - Miata vs E30 at Sonoma Raceway
Chasing a TTC class e30 M3 during the last TT session at Sonoma Raceway on Sunday September 28th, 2014. My fastest lap this session was a 2:06:804. The M3 had a best of 2:05.498. The Miata...
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MARS DRILL WATER: Curiosity Rover Hits Water: NASA Stays Silent. ArtAlienTV - MARS ZOO 1080p
Days after the "Mars Traffic Light" the Curiosity Rover hits liquid water as it drills through rock on the Mars surface, in Gale Crater near Mount Sharp. The drill was dry on day one but the...
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Three Delta IV boosters collectively generate 1.96 million pounds of thrust Orion capsule will undergo first test flight in December Comes as Nasa bosses reveal private contracts for shuttle replacement so they can concentrate on the project
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Published: 14:27 EST, 29 September 2014 | Updated: 16:28 EST, 29 September 2014
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Blastoff for the spacecraft which could one day take humans to Mars is set for the final countdown as Nasa begins assembling the giant rockets that will propel it into orbit.
The huge Delta IV Heavy rocket has been put together for the first time at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Floridaahead of a first test flight of the Orion capsule in December.
It will blast the experimental capsule in orbit - although the rockets are then expected to be replaced by Nasa's even bigger Space Launch system.
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ASTANA, Kazakhstan, Sept. 30 (UPI) -- New photos from NASA are showing the Aral Sea as just a sliver with the entire basin diminished as a result of a Soviet-era irrigation diversion project.
The draining of the Aral Sea began in the 1960s when the Soviet Union began a project to divert the two major rivers that flowed into the basin, the Syr Darya and Amu Darya, to irrigate the deserts of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan. The project successfully let farms and crops flourish in the arid terrain but sacrificed the Aral Sea.
A new series of photos from NASA show the devastation done to what was once the fourth largest lake in the world from 2000 to 2014 and compare them to the original size in 1960 -- marked by a black outline.
According to NASA's Earth Observatory, Kazakhstan built a dam in 2005 to separate the northern and southern parts of the sea to save it at least partially. It killed the southern sea, draining the basin. The dam has caused parts of the lake to rebound, but the results have been minimal.
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Three astronauts of the International Space Station Expedition 41 crew will conduct two spacewalks outside the orbiting laboratory Tuesday, Oct. 7 and Wednesday, Oct. 15 to replace a failed power regulator and relocate a failed cooling pump. NASA Television will provide comprehensive coverage, beginning with a preview briefing Friday, Oct. 3.
The preview briefing will be broadcast at 2 p.m. EDT from NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. Reporters may take part in the briefing at participating NASA centers. Media who wish to ask questions by phone must call Johnson's newsroom at 281-483-5111 no later than 1:45 p.m. Friday.
Briefing participants are: -- Kenny Todd, space station integration operations manager -- Scott Stover, NASA space station flight director -- Jaclyn Kagey, U.S. spacewalk 27 officer -- Kieth Johnson, U.S. spacewalk 28 officer
NASA Flight Engineer Reid Wiseman and Flight Engineer Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency will exit the station's Quest airlock for the Oct. 7 spacewalk at about 8:10 a.m., both wearing U.S. spacesuits. NASA TV coverage of the planned six-and-a-half-hour spacewalk will begin at 7 a.m. Wiseman will be extravehicular crew member one (EV1) and will wear a suit bearing red stripes. Gerst will be EV2 and wear a suit with no stripes. The astronauts will move a failed cooling pump from temporary to long-term storage on the station's truss. They also will install a new relay system that will provide backup power options to the mobile transporter, which moves the large robotic arm around the out outside of the space station.
Wiseman will venture outside Quest again Oct. 15, with NASA Flight Engineer Barry Wilmore, a new arrival to the space station, for another six-and-a-half-hour spacewalk. The two-man team will replace a sequential shunt unit electronics box, a voltage regulator, on the starboard truss that failed in mid-May. Although the station has since operated normally on seven of its eight power channels, the voltage regulator replacement is considered a high priority.
Wiseman, again designated EV1, and Wilmore, who will serve as EV2, also will relocate external cameras and equipment to begin configuring the station for international docking adapters for future commercial crew vehicles. Coverage of this second spacewalk begins at 7 a.m. with the spacewalk expected to begin around 8:10 a.m.
The spacewalks will be the 182nd and the 183rd in support of station assembly and maintenance. All three astronauts will be conducting the first spacewalks of their careers.
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3 hours ago A view of the sun from Sept. 24, 2014 from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory shows bright spots representing magnetically active regions in the lower right quadrant of the sun. The VAULT2.0 mission will focus on this area to better understand what heats the solar atmosphere. Credit:NASA/SDO
(Phys.org) On Sept. 30, 2014, a sounding rocket will fly up into the sky past Earth's atmosphere that obscures certain wavelengths of light from the sunfor a 15-minute journey to study what heats up the sun's atmosphere. This is the fourth flight for the Very high Angular Resolution Ultraviolet Telescope, or VAULT, will launch from the White Sands Missile Range near Las Cruces, New Mexico.
The instrument, now called VAULT2.0, has been refurbished with new electronics and an imaging detector to capture images more frequently than before. While in space, VAULT2.0 will observe light emitted from hydrogen atoms at temperatures of 18,000 to 180,000 degrees Fahrenheit.
"That's the temperature range where the action is," said Angelos Vourlidas, the principal investigator for VAULT2.0 at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C. "These are the temperatures where the heating of the sun's atmosphere the coronareally takes place."
Understanding how the corona heats remains one of the great, unanswered questions on the sun. The solar surface itself is only about 10,500 F, but further up in the atmosphere, the temperatures rise to million of degrees Fahrenheit the opposite of what one typically expects when moving away from a heat source. Something heats up that corona, and VAULT2.0 will be watching.
The sounding rocket will fly up to about 180 miles in the air, just below the height where the International Space Station travels. It will fly in an arc, taking 15 minutes from launch to landing back on the ground. This allows for just six minutes of actual observations while it is above the atmosphere, during which VAULT2.0 will capture an image every six to eight seconds. Vourlidas plans to focus the telescope on active regions at the center of the sun areas of intense and complex magnetic activity, to understand the heating process there.
During the VAULT2.0 launch, three other observatories will watch the same area: NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, or IRIS, the joint Japanese Exploration Agency and NASA's Hinode, and NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO. IRIS focuses in on solar material slightly hotter than does VAULT2.0, while Hinode can see solar material both cooler and much hotter. The temperatures also loosely correlate to heights in the atmosphere with the cooler temperatures at the bottom, and the hotter temperatures higher up. SDO will observe the larger scale structure of the solar atmosphere as well as the underlying magnetic field.
"Together the three telescopes will be looking at a sandwich of solar material," said Vourlidas. "We'll be looking at the layers from near the surface all the way up into the corona, the layers where the bulk of coronal heating is believed to happen."
VAULT's launch time is planned for 1:47 p.m. EDT on Sept. 30. Launch timing will depend on good weather conditions as well as optimum times for coordinating with Hinode satellite and IRIS spacecraft.
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A new NASA image shows the devastation wreaked by the King Fire east of Sacramento, California, which has been burning for the last two weeks. NASA #39;s Landsat...
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http://www.undergroundworldnews.com NASA has released data showing that they expect at least 400 asteroid impacts on Earth between 2017 and 2113. Although most of the rocks have a diameter...
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MER Egress test in JPL #39;s In-Situ Instrument Laboratory in preparation for actual Opportunity egress. Edited for NASA TV.
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September 29, 2014
Image Caption: SNC's Dream Chaser on runway at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center at dawn. Credit: Sierra Nevada Corporation/NASA
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Sierra Nevada Corp (SNC) has filed a formal protest over NASAs decision to grant a total of $6.8 billion in contracts to Boeing and SpaceX for the construction of next-generation vehicles to transport American astronauts to and from the International Space Station (ISS).
Those agreements, which were announced earlier this month, could pay Boeing up to $4.2 billion for use of their commercially owned and operated CST-100, and another $2.6 billion to SpaceX for use of their Dragon spacecraft. The goal is to have domestically-made vehicles available for use in manned missions by 2017.
SNC, which was also under consideration for those contracts, said that their bid could have saved NASA up to $900 million and that statements made by officials at the US space agency indicate that there are serious questions and inconsistencies in the source selection process, said Reuters reporters Andrea Shalal and Mohammad Zargham.
With the current awards, the U.S. government would spend up to $900 million more at the publicly announced contracted level for a space program equivalent to the program that SNC proposed, Sierra Nevada said in a statement. SNC, therefore, feels that there is no alternative but to institute a legal challenge, it continued, noting that a thorough review of NASAs decision to award the contracts must be conducted.
Furthermore, Andy Pasztor of the Wall Street Journal pointed out that SNC said the US space agencys selection of Boeing and CST-100 would result in a substantial increased cost to the public despite near equivalent technical and past performance scores, and that NASAs own selection records and debrief indicate the presence of serious questions and inconsistencies in the source selection process.
A NASA spokeswoman told Pasztor that the agency would have no comment while the legal challenge is pending with the US Government Accountability Office (GAO), which must determine whether or not the complaint is valid. That process can take several months, the Wall Street Journal reporter added. NASA has not publically released the selection criteria, or how each of the three firms ranked in terms of technical, management and cost issues.
While Pasztor said that SNC was the only bidder to propose a winged vehicle able to land on a runway during its return trip from the international space station, he added that sources had informed him the company lagged behind the other two bidders in some technical rankings. Sierra Nevada said in their statement that its proposal was the second lowest priced and that it had achieved mission suitability scores comparable to its rivals.
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Image Caption: Artists concept of an atom chip for use by NASAs Cold Atom Laboratory (CAL) aboard the International Space Station. CAL will use lasers to cool atoms to ultracold temperatures. Credit: NASA
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Like dancers in a chorus line, atoms movements become synchronized when lowered to extremely cold temperatures. To study this bizarre phenomenon, called a Bose-Einstein condensate, researchers need to cool atoms to a temperature just above absolute zero the point at which atoms have the least energy and are close to motionless.
The goal of NASAs Cold Atom Laboratory (CAL) is to study ultra-cold quantum gases in a facility instrument developed for use on the International Space Station. Scientists will use the facility to explore how differently atoms interact in microgravity when they have almost no motion due to such cold temperatures. With less pull toward the ground from Earth, matter can stay in the form of a Bose Einstein condensate longer, giving researchers the opportunity to observe it better.
The CAL team announced this week that it has succeeded in producing a Bose-Einstein condensate at NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a key breakthrough for the instrument leading up to its debut on the space station in late 2016.
A Bose-Einstein condensate is a collection of atoms in a dilute gas that have been lowered to extremely cold temperatures and all occupy the same quantum state, in which all of the atoms have the same energy levels. At a critical temperature, atoms begin to coalesce, overlap and move in synch. The resulting condensate is a new state of matter that behaves like a giant by atomic standards wave.
Its official. CALs ground testbed is the coolest spot at NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory at 200 nano-Kelvin [200 billionths of 1 Kelvin], said CAL Project Scientist Rob Thompson at JPL in Pasadena, California. Achieving Bose-Einstein condensation in our prototype hardware is a crucial step for the mission.
Although these quantum gases had been created before elsewhere on Earth, CAL will explore the condensates in an entirely new regime: the microgravity environment of the space station. It will enable unprecedented research in temperatures colder than any found on Earth.
In the stations microgravity environment, long interaction times and temperatures as low as one picokelvin (one trillionth of one Kelvin, or 293 trillion times less than room temperature) should be achievable. Thats colder than anything known in nature, and the experiments with CAL could potentially create the coldest matter ever observed in the universe. These breakthrough temperatures unlock the potential to observe new quantum phenomena and test some of the most fundamental laws of physics. The CAL investigation could advance our knowledge in the development of exquisitely sensitive quantum detectors, which could be used for monitoring the gravity of the Earth and other planetary bodies, or for building advanced navigation devices.
Ultra-cold atoms will also be useful for space-based optical clocks that will be future time standards, Thompson said.
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It seems too round to be true the Curiosity rover has found a ball-shaped object among the craggy rocks in its picture. This image was taken on Sol 746 of the rovers mission on Mars, which so far has extended over two Earth years.
No, its not the leftover of a Martian baseball game and nor is it aliens. In fact, according toDiscovery News(who is quoting NASA) its a kind of rock that shows evidence of water in the ancient past.
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According to MSL scientists based at NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif., the ball isnt as big as it looks its approximately one centimeter wide. Their explanation is that it is most likely something known as a concretion. Other examples of concretions have been found on the Martian surface before take, for example, the tiny haematite concretions, or blueberries, observed by Mars rover Opportunity in 2004 and they were created during sedimentary rock formation when Mars was abundant in liquid water many millions of years ago.
Curiosity isnow at the base of Mount Sharp (Aeolis Mons) its main science goal and scientists are hoping to find more signs of habitable environments as the rover slowly prepares for the climb up the slope. Mission managers will need to be careful as therover has battered wheelsfrom rougher terrain than expected.
The rover already has found other evidence of water in its landing site of Gale Crater, such as thisancient lakebed that could have supported life.
Elizabeth Howellis the senior writer at Universe Today. She also works for Space.com, Space Exploration Network, the NASA Lunar Science Institute, NASA Astrobiology Magazine and LiveScience, among others. Career highlights include watching three shuttle launches, and going on a two-week simulated Mars expedition in rural Utah. You can follow her on Twitter@howellspaceor contact her ather website. FollowElizabeth Howell on Google+.
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Washington: NASA's Curiosity rover has just drilled its first hole in the foothills of Mount Sharp, the 5-kilometre-high mountain on Mars that is the primary destination for the six-wheeled machine's mission. The rover's hammering drill chewed about 2.6 inches deep into a basal-layer outcrop on Mount Sharp last week and collected a powdered-rock sample. The powder collected by the drilling is temporarily held within the sample-handling mechanism on the rover's arm. "This drilling target is at the lowest part of the base layer of the mountain, and from here we plan to examine the higher, younger layers exposed in the nearby hills," said Curiosity Deputy Project Scientist Ashwin Vasavada of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). "This first look at rocks we believe to underlie Mount Sharp is exciting because it will begin to form a picture of the environment at the time the mountain formed, and what led to its growth," said Vasavada. After landing on Mars in August 2012 but before beginning the drive towards Mount Sharp, Curiosity spent much of the mission's first year productively studying an area much closer to the landing site, but in the opposite direction. The mission accomplished its science goals in that Yellowknife Bay area. Analysis of drilled rocks there disclosed an ancient lake-bed environment that, more than three billion years ago, offered ingredients and a chemical energy gradient favourable for microbes, if any existed there. From Yellowknife Bay to the base of Mount Sharp, Curiosity drove more than 8 kilometres in about 15 months, with pauses at a few science waypoints. The emphasis in mission operations has now changed from drive, drive, drive to systematic layer-by-layer investigation, NASA said. "We're putting on the brakes to study this amazing mountain. Curiosity flew hundreds of millions of miles to do this," said Curiosity Deputy Project Manager Jennifer Trosper of JPL. Curiosity on September 19 arrived at an outcrop called "Pahrump Hills," which is a section of the mountain's basal geological unit, called the Murray formation. Three days later, the rover completed a "mini-drill" procedure at the selected drilling target, "Confidence Hills," to assess the target rock's suitability for drilling. A mini-drill activity last month determined that a rock slab under consideration then was not stable enough for full drilling, but Confidence Hills passed this test. The rock is softer than any of the previous three targets where Curiosity has collected a drilled sample for analysis. PTI
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