Sky News looks up to report on NASA’s airiest plans for exploring Jupiter. They’re designing a flock of turbulence-fueled “windbots” – cheap, floating… Read the rest “Windbots to explore Jupiter – the bumpier the ride, the better.”
This is an artist’s impression of a planet just discovered by NASA’s Kepler mission that’s gotten the folks at SETI all excited.
It’s the most… Read the rest “Science Art: Soaking Up the Rays of a Sun-Like Star, by NASA Ames/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle, 2015.”
From NPR’s Skunk Bear:
Words by Ray Bradbury. Images by NASA.
You can too, over here: https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/, or here: http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/.
Remember, Pluto’s 4.5 light-hours away. You dial their number, it takes… Read the rest “Sorry, no science news today. Busy WATCHING A SPACE SHIP FLY PAST PLUTO.”
The ESA has spent an eventful weekend now that the Rosetta probe has woken up after a long sleep on a comet:
… Read the rest “Good morning, Philae. How’s that comet looking 200 days later?”Hidden by shadows, Philae shut down on 15 November 2014 at 00:36 GMT after completing
This is the thing the last song was about, LightSail, which even now is orbiting Earth and probably (if it’s going as expected) accelerating. We’re not entirely… Read the rest “Science Art: LightSail by Josh Spradling / The Planetary Society”
SONG: “I Am Sailing.”
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE:Based on “LightSail”, sail.planetary.org, retrieved 13 May 2015, as used in the post “A solar sail unfurling.… Read the rest “SONG: I Am Sailing”
Bill Nye, more than just an enthusiast on the TV, has gotten a group together – part of The Planetary Society – to test a solar sailer spacecraft next week:
… Read the rest “A solar sail unfurling. Not sometime in the unspecified future – *next week*.”LightSail™ is a citizen-funded
Science writer Leonard David is concerned. It seems like Mars Rover Curiosity is having some unusual wear on it wheels… erosion and corrosion that seems to be caused by liquid water… Read the rest “In the Martian morning, there’s dew… (and it’s eating away our rover’s wheels)”
In which NASA tests a Space Shuttle engine in Mississippi, on a cool and humid day.
Found on GRIN.
The Atlantic has a heartwarming story about the little flying robot that could (if only we’d let it)… a plucky little space-drone named Morpheus:
… Read the rest “Go, little Mars drone! Fly! FLY!”While it may never fly in space
This is happening now. This summer.
A little flying robot is going to Pluto, the planet that wasn’t a planet, then it sort of was again.
From the NASA New Horizons page… Read the rest “Science Art: NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft as it passes Pluto and Pluto’s largest moon, Charon, in July 2015, by NASA/JHU APL/SwRI/Steve Gribben.”
Scientific American electrifies us with news of a cluster of satellites investigating the destructive power of the northern lights:
… Read the rest “Magnetic mystery satellites launching tonight”The Magnetsopheric Multiscale mission, or MMS, consists
IFLScience smells more traces of life on Mars, by curiously sniffing spikes of Red Planet methane:
… Read the rest “Methane on Mars”Since it landed on the Red Planet, NASA’s Curiosity rover has been exploring the Gale crater
A look at the solar wind – charged particles whipping off our nearest star – and what they do to the second planet out, Venus.
From a NASA technical document, a translation of … Read the rest “Science Art: Variation of the Electron Density with Altitude in the Venusian Ionosphere, 1975.”
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