Monat: Februar 2014

NASA Sun-Earth Video Wins International Science Challenge
Space.com A NASA video that shows exactly how profoundly and dramatically the sun influences Earth’s climate and weather has won a high-profile international …

NASA Probe Finds Newly Formed Crater On Mars
NPR (blog)NASA has run before-and-after imaging of fresh craters on Mars before and has determined that about 200 new ones per year of at least 12.8 feet in …

NASA Posts Final Asteroid Workshop Report
In 2013, NASA kicked off the Asteroid Redirect Mission and the Asteroid Grand Challenge, collectively known as the Asteroid Initiative. On June 18, we …

NASA sued over jelly doughnut-shaped Martian rock Atlanta Journal ConstitutionSince then, NASA scientists have theorized the rock was simply knocked into the shot by one of the rover’s wheels and it is, in fact, just a rock.
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Nasa reveals plan to help private firms take America back to the Moon
Daily Mail America is heading back to the moon – only this time, private firms will be footing the bill. Nasa has called for partners interested in developing low cost …

NASA study points to infrared-herring in apparent Amazon green-up Phys.OrgNow, a new NASA study published today in the journal Nature shows that the appearance of canopy greening is not caused by a biophysical change …

NASA and ESA Space Telescopes Help Solve Mystery of Burned …
Space DailyAstronomers using NASA’s Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes, and Europe’s Herschel Space Observatory, have pieced together the evolutionary …

Watch NASA Use a Rocket Sled to Test Supersonic Parachute for …
WiredIn the video above, NASA engineers use a rocket sled to test an enormous supersonic parachute that could one day land spacecraft on Mars. Oh yeah …

NASA Mars Orbiter Examines Dramatic New CraterJet Propulsion LaboratoryA dramatic, fresh impact crater dominates this image taken by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA’s Mars …