06/13/2013 12:00 PM EDT
Curiosity is at Point Lake on Mars and will snap pictures to send home. Find out more about the rover's 17 cameras, including why some shoot in color and others others take black-and-white images.
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jueves, 13 de junio de 2013
NASA NASA Podcasts Update
06/11/2013 12:00 PM EDT
Is frozen carbon dioxide a key to features in some Martian gullies? To find out, scientists grabbed a bag of dry ice and took a road trip.
martes, 11 de junio de 2013
Marks on Martian Dunes May Reveal Tracks of Dry Ice Sleds
06/11/2013 12:00 AM EDT
NASA research indicates hunks of frozen carbon dioxide -- dry ice -- may glide down some Martian sand dunes on cushions of gas similar to miniature hovercraft, plowing furrows as they go.
sábado, 8 de junio de 2013
NASA to Host June 7 Mars Rover Opportunity Teleconference
06/06/2013 12:00 AM EDT
NASA will hold a media teleconference at 9 a.m. PDT (noon EDT) on Friday, June 7, to provide an update about the long-lived Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity. The 10th anniversary of this rover's launch is next month.
viernes, 7 de junio de 2013
Mars Express: Searching for life
06-06-2013 12:55 PM CEST
On 2 June 2003 dawned a new era for the European Space Agency.
From Baikonur Mars Express was the first planetary probe of the European Space Agency, sent a Russian Soyuz rocket on their trip to our neighboring red planet.
On 25 December of the same year, they swung into orbit around Mars. Since then she has traveled more than 12.000mal him and her seven scientific instruments provide a reliable stream of data that can be our neighboring planets appear in a new light.
jueves, 6 de junio de 2013
European Space Agency Flickr Update
06-06-2013 11:13 AM CEST
On Wednesday 5 June 2013, Ariane 5 VA213 with the ESA's fourth Automated Transfer Vehicle, Albert Einstein, lifted off from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana.
Credits: ESA/CNES/Arianespace/Optique Video du CSG
06-06-2013 11:13 AM CEST
On Wednesday 5 June 2013, Ariane 5 VA213 with the ESA's fourth Automated Transfer Vehicle, Albert Einstein, lifted off from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana.
Credits: ESA/CNES/Arianespace/Optique Video du CSG
06-06-2013 11:13 AM CEST
On Wednesday 5 June 2013, Ariane 5 VA213 with the ESA's fourth Automated Transfer Vehicle, Albert Einstein, lifted off from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana.
Credits: ESA/CNES/Arianespace/Optique Video du CSG
06-06-2013 11:08 AM CEST
Looking in the direction of flowing water from the northern flanks of Kasai Valles towards 100 km-wide Sharonov crater in the top centre, and with Sacra Mensa to the lower right.
Credits: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin (G. Neukum)
06-06-2013 11:08 AM CEST
This mosaic, which features the spectacular Kasei Valles, comprises 67 images taken with the High Resolution Stereo Camera on ESA's Mars Express. The mosaic spans 987 km north–south (19–36°N) and 1550 km east–west (280–310°E).
Credits: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin (G. Neukum)
06-06-2013 07:44 AM CEST
On Wednesday 5 June 2013, Ariane 5 VA213 with the ESA's fourth Automated Transfer Vehicle, Albert Einstein, lifted off from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana.
For more images, please click here.
Credits : ESA–S. Corvaja, 2013
06-06-2013 07:44 AM CEST
On Wednesday 5 June 2013, Ariane 5 VA213 with the ESA's fourth Automated Transfer Vehicle, Albert Einstein, lifted off from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana.
For more images, please click here.
Credits : ESA–S. Corvaja, 2013
06-06-2013 07:44 AM CEST
On Wednesday 5 June 2013, Ariane 5 VA213 with the ESA's fourth Automated Transfer Vehicle, Albert Einstein, lifted off from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana.
For more images, please click here.
Credits : ESA–S. Corvaja, 2013
06-06-2013 02:04 AM CEST
On Wednesday 5 June 2013, Ariane 5 VA213 with the ESA's fourth Automated Transfer Vehicle, Albert Einstein, lifted off from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana.
For more images, please click here.
Credits : ESA–M. Pedoussaut, 2013
06-06-2013 01:10 AM CEST
On Wednesday 5 June 2013, Ariane 5 VA213 with the ESA's fourth Automated Transfer Vehicle, Albert Einstein, lifted off from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana.
For more images, please click here.
Credits : ESA–S. Corvaja, 2013
06-06-2013 01:10 AM CEST
On Wednesday 5 June 2013, Ariane 5 VA213 with the ESA's fourth Automated Transfer Vehicle, Albert Einstein, lifted off from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana.
For more images, please click here.
Credits : ESA–S. Corvaja, 2013
06-06-2013 01:10 AM CEST
On Wednesday 5 June 2013, Ariane 5 VA213 with the ESA's fourth Automated Transfer Vehicle, Albert Einstein, lifted off from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana.
For more images, please click here.
Credits : ESA–S. Corvaja, 2013
06-06-2013 01:10 AM CEST
On Wednesday 5 June 2013, Ariane 5 VA213 with the ESA's fourth Automated Transfer Vehicle, Albert Einstein, lifted off from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana.
For more images, please click here.
Credits : ESA–S. Corvaja, 2013
06-06-2013 12:02 AM CEST
Ariane 5 VA213 carrying ATV Albert Einstein lifted off from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana at 21.42 GMT 5 June 2013.
Credits: ESA/Arianespace
06-06-2013 12:02 AM CEST
Ariane 5 VA213 carrying ATV Albert Einstein lifted off from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana at 21.42 GMT 5 June 2013.
Credits: ESA/Arianespace
06-06-2013 12:02 AM CEST
Ariane 5 VA213 carrying ATV Albert Einstein lifted off from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana at 21.42 GMT 5 June 2013.
Credits: ESA/Arianespace
The floodwaters of Mars
miércoles, 5 de junio de 2013
European Space Agency YouTube Update
05-06-2013 07:24 PM CEST
In celebration of the 10th anniversary of Mars Express: a new and enhanced Full Orbit Video generated by multiple images acquired by the VMC camera - the Mars Webcam - on board ESA's Mars Express This version is a special 'MEX birthday preview'. We'll post a somewhat extended version late next week, to coincide with the next expected VMC image set arriving from Mars (for news, follow the VMC blog http://blogs.esa.int/vmc)
Thanks to the Mars Express Science operations teams for generating a fabulous, unique-in-our-Solar-System view of the Red planet. And happy Birthday, Mars Express!
NASA to Host June 5 Teleconference on Curiosity Mars Rover
06/03/2013 12:00 AM EDT
NASA will hold a media teleconference at 11:30 a.m. PDT (2:30 p.m. EDT), Wednesday, June 5, to provide an update about the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission and activities of the Curiosity rover.
lunes, 3 de junio de 2013
European Space Agency Flickr Update
03-06-2013 10:24 AM CEST
The north polar ice cap of Mars, presented as a mosaic of 57 separate images from the High Resolution Stereo Camera on ESA's Mars Express. The ice cap spans approximately 1000 km and is seen here in polar stereographic projection.The images were taken throughout the entire mission, when Mars Express was at its closest to Mars along its orbit, at about 300-500 km altitude.
The mosaic was published as space science image of the week on the occasion of the tenth anniversary since the mission launched on 2 June 2003.
Credits: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin–G. Neukum) image processing by F. Jansen (ESA)
03-06-2013 10:19 AM CEST
Unlike the venomous fictional plants that share its name, the Trifid of the North, otherwise known as the Northern Trifid or NGC 1579, poses no threat to your vision.The nebulaâs moniker is inspired by the better-known Messier 20, the Trifid Nebula, which lies very much further south in the sky and displays strikingly similar swirling clouds of gas and dust.
The Trifid of the North is a large, dusty region that is currently forming new stars. These stars are very hot and therefore appear to be very blue. During their short lives they radiate strongly into the gas surrounding them, causing it to glow brightly. Many regions like the Trifid of the North â named H II regions â are clumpy and strangely shaped due to the powerful winds emanating from the stars within them. H II regions also have relatively short lives, furiously forming baby stars until the immense winds from these bodies blow the gas and dust away, leaving just stars behind.
The image above, captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, shows the bright body of the nebula, with dark dust lanes snaking across the frame. The Trifid of the North glows strongly due to the many stars within it, like young binary EM* LkHA 101. Visible to the bottom right of the image, this binary is thought to be surrounded by a hundred or so fainter and less massive stars, making up a recently formed cluster.
It lies behind a cloud of dust so thick that it is almost invisible to astronomers at optical wavelengths. Infrared imaging has now penetrated this dusty veil and is uncovering the secrets of this binary star, which is about five thousand times brighter than our own Sun. A version of this image by Bruno Conti was entered into the Hubble's Hidden Treasures competition.
Credits: ESA/Hubble, NASA
Acknowledgement: Bruno Conti
Ten years at Mars: new global views plot the Red Planet’s history
viernes, 31 de mayo de 2013
Live Webcast Science Day: Highlights of 10 years of European Mars research
27-05-2013 04:00 PM CEST
We go live on Wednesday, 05 June, from 20 clock to the public "Science Day" at the Central Station in Darmstadt.
Leading experts from ESA, DLR and Astrium present the highlights of Europe's first comprehensive mission to the Red Planet Mars Express. From 23 clock, we show in the web-cast live TV transmission from the start of the ATV space transporter "Albert Einstein" at the International Space Station.
Space interested are also welcome to attend the public meeting in the Central Station in Darmstadt.
Doors open since 19 clock.
jueves, 30 de mayo de 2013
Radiation Measured by NASA's Curiosity on Voyage to Mars has Implications for Future Human Missions
05/30/2013 12:00 AM EDT
Mars webcast
Artist's Rendering of an Asteroid Capture
05/30/2013 12:00 AM EDT
This artist's rendering shows what capturing an asteroid could look like. NASA's FY2014 budget proposal includes a plan to robotically capture a small near-Earth asteroid and redirect it safely to a stable orbit in the Earth-moon system where astronauts can visit and explore it.Performing these elements for the proposed asteroid initiative integrates the best of NASA's science, technology and human exploration capabilities and draws on the innovation of America's brightest scientists and engineers.
It uses current and developing capabilities to find both large asteroids that pose a hazard to Earth and small asteroids that could be candidates for the initiative, accelerates our technology development activities in high-powered solar electric propulsion and takes advantage of our hard work on the Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft, helping to keep NASA on target to reach the President's goal of sending humans to Mars in the 2030s.
Image Credit: NASA/Advanced Concepts Lab
NASA's WISE Mission Finds Lost Asteroid Family Members
05/29/2013 12:00 AM EDT
Data from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) have led to a new and improved family tree for asteroids in the main belt between Mars and Jupiter.
lunes, 27 de mayo de 2013
NASA Discusses Curiosity Radiation Findings
05/27/2013 12:00 AM EDT
NASA will host a media teleconference at 2:30 p.m. EDT Thursday, May 30, to present new findings from the Mars Science Laboratory Radiation Assessment Detector (RAD) aboard the rover Curiosity.
Call for Media: Celebrating 10 years of Mars Express discoveries
24-05-2013 02:00 PM CEST
Media representatives are invited to a briefing at ESA's operations centre in Darmstadt, Germany on Monday 3 June, marking the tenth anniversary of the launch of ESA's Mars Express.
The event will highlight the key scientific discoveries of the mission and will unveil a new mineral atlas that charts the geological history of Mars.
viernes, 17 de mayo de 2013
Curiosity at 'Cumberland'
05/17/2013 12:00 AM EDT
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity used its front left Hazard-Avoidance Camera for this image of the rover's arm over the drilling target "Cumberland" during the 275th Martian day, or sol, of the rover's work on Mars (May 15, 2013). The rover team plans to use Curiosity's drill to collect a powdered sample from the interior of the rock for analysis by laboratory instruments inside the rover.
This is the mission's second rock-drilling target. The rover drove from its position beside the first drilling target, "John Klein," to its position beside Cumberland with drives of 121 inches (308 centimeters) on Sol 273 (May 13) and 26.6 inches (67.5 centimeters) on Sol 275. Curiosity's total odometry on Mars is now 2,385 feet (727 meters).
Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
This is the mission's second rock-drilling target. The rover drove from its position beside the first drilling target, "John Klein," to its position beside Cumberland with drives of 121 inches (308 centimeters) on Sol 273 (May 13) and 26.6 inches (67.5 centimeters) on Sol 275. Curiosity's total odometry on Mars is now 2,385 feet (727 meters).
Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
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