NASA – NASA Rover Confirms First Drilled Mars Rock Sample
First Curiosity Drilling Sample in the Scoop This image from NASA’s Curiosity rover shows the first sample of powdered rock extracted by the rover’s drill. The image was taken after the sample was...
View ArticleBBC News – Deepest undersea vents discovered by UK team
Instruments on ISIS’ arm were used to collect temperature data . 21 February 2013 Last updated at 02:53 ET Deepest undersea vents discovered by UK team Latest news Explore the strange ocean depths By...
View ArticleESA chooses instruments for its Jupiter icy moons explorer / Space Science /...
JUICE ESA chooses instruments for its Jupiter icy moons explorer 21 February 2013 The JUpiter ICy moons Explorer mission, JUICE, will carry a total of 11 scientific experiments to study the gas giant...
View ArticleNASA and JPL Contribute to European Jupiter Mission – NASA Jet Propulsion...
The JUpiter ICy moons Explorer mission, JUICE (Artist impression ) Image credit: ESA/AOES NASA and JPL Contribute to European Jupiter Mission February 21, 2013 NASA has selected key contributions to...
View ArticleNext SpaceX Dragon Spacecraft on Track for March 1 Launch « AmericaSpace
On its third mission—and the second dedicated flight under the $1.6 billion Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA—SpaceX’s Dragon will make full use of both its pressurized and unpressurized...
View ArticleWhat’s Our Vector, Victor? | Spudis Lunar Resources
“Roger, Roger. We have clearance, Clarence.” What’s Our Vector, Victor? Posted on March 3, 2013 by Paul Spudis The U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Space recently held a hearing on a...
View ArticleOrion Components Arrive at KSC in Preparation for Test Flight « AmericaSpace
NASA has the first flight of the Orion spacecraft scheduled to take place in the latter half of 2014. More and more elements needed to conduct this mission have been assembled and are being readied for...
View ArticleVery brief Curiosity update, sol 205: Memory anomaly and a swap to the...
Locations of Curiosity’s cameras Locations of all of Curiosity’s cameras: the two Mastcams; Chemcam Remote Micro-Imager (RMI); the left and right Navcams (set A, used from landing, on top, and set B,...
View ArticleNASA’s Curiosity begins to resume operations after glitch — Sen
A self portrait of the Mars rover Curiosity built from a mosaic of 66 images taken on 3 February. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS NASA’s Curiosity begins to resume operations after glitch By Paul...
View ArticleGemini Planet Imager: New Telescope Will Photograph Distant Worlds «...
Simulation of planets imaged by the Keck Telescope (left) compared to GPI (right). Image Credit: Christian Marois/Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics and Marshall Perrin/Space Telescope Science...
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