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NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features
8 Mar 2011, 21:47 UTC
Rocks on Mars dug from far underground by crater-blasting impacts are providing glimpses of one possible way Mars' atmosphere has become much less dense than it used to be.
Some of Mars' Missing Carbon Dioxide May be Buried
8 Mar 2011, 21:47 UTC
Rocks on Mars dug from far underground by crater-blasting impacts are providing glimpses of one possible way Mars' atmosphere has become much less dense than it used to be.
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features
8 Mar 2011, 20:03 UTC
In which direction is the sun's stream of charged particles banking when it nears the edge of the solar system?
Voyager Seeks the Answer Blowin' in the Wind
8 Mar 2011, 20:03 UTC
In which direction is the sun's stream of charged particles banking when it nears the edge of the solar system?
NASA's MESSENGER Mission
8 Mar 2011, 05:25 UTC
Ten days from now - on March 17 - the MESSENGER spacecraft will execute a 15-minute maneuver that will place it into orbit about Mercury, making it the first craft ever to do so, and initiating a one-year science campaign to understand the innermost planet.
Ten Days from Mercury Orbit Insertion
8 Mar 2011, 05:25 UTC
Ten days from now - on March 17 - the MESSENGER spacecraft will execute a 15-minute maneuver that will place it into orbit about Mercury, making it the first craft ever to do so, and initiating a one-year science campaign to understand the innermost planet.
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
8 Mar 2011, 05:00 UTC
The centrifuge at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. will spin the ISIM while engineers monitor it's progress to ensure it can survive a launch.
Webb Space Telescope's "Chassis" Gets Taken Out for a Spin
8 Mar 2011, 05:00 UTC
The centrifuge at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. will spin the ISIM while engineers monitor it's progress to ensure it can survive a launch.
NASA Lunar Science Institute
8 Mar 2011, 00:00 UTC
The NRC is asked once each decade to prioritize NASA goals. The results of this survey have just been released! The National Research Council (NRC) conducts studies that provide a science community consensus on key questions posed by NASA and other U.S. Government agencies. The broadest of these studies in NASA’s areas of research are decadal surveys. As the name implies, NASA and its partners ask the NRC once each decade to look out ten or more years into the future and prioritize research areas, observations, and notional missions to make those observations.
NRC Planetary Decadal Survey 2013-2022
8 Mar 2011, 00:00 UTC
The NRC is asked once each decade to prioritize NASA goals. The results of this survey have just been released! The National Research Council (NRC) conducts studies that provide a science community consensus on key questions posed by NASA and other U.S. Government agencies. The broadest of these studies in NASA’s areas of research are decadal surveys. As the name implies, NASA and its partners ask the NRC once each decade to look out ten or more years into the future and prioritize research areas, observations, and notional missions to make those observations.
NASA Lunar Science Institute
7 Mar 2011, 17:25 UTC
Forty years after the first lunar rover rolled across the moon’s surface, 84 teams of enterprising future engineers will demonstrate the same ingenuity and can-do spirit at the 18th annual NASA Great Moonbuggy Race, set for April 1-2 in Huntsville, Ala. The event challenges high school and college students to design, build and race lightweight, human-powered rovers — “moonbuggies” — which address many of the same engineering challenges dealt with by Apollo-era lunar rover developers in the late 1960s.
84 Teams to Compete in NASA Great Moonbuggy Race
7 Mar 2011, 17:25 UTC
Forty years after the first lunar rover rolled across the moon’s surface, 84 teams of enterprising future engineers will demonstrate the same ingenuity and can-do spirit at the 18th annual NASA Great Moonbuggy Race, set for April 1-2 in Huntsville, Ala. The event challenges high school and college students to design, build and race lightweight, human-powered rovers — “moonbuggies” — which address many of the same engineering challenges dealt with by Apollo-era lunar rover developers in the late 1960s.
UK Space Agency
7 Mar 2011, 14:52 UTC
UK space surveillance technology is being used in ESA's first co-ordinated space tracking campaign - part of a larger programme to provide up to date and accurate information on space hazards in Earth's orbit. These hazards stem from possible collisions between objects in orbit, harmful space weather and potential strikes by natural objects that cross Earth's orbit.
UK technology scans the skies for space hazards
7 Mar 2011, 14:52 UTC
UK space surveillance technology is being used in ESA's first co-ordinated space tracking campaign - part of a larger programme to provide up to date and accurate information on space hazards in Earth's orbit. These hazards stem from possible collisions between objects in orbit, harmful space weather and potential strikes by natural objects that cross Earth's orbit.
UK Space Agency
7 Mar 2011, 14:11 UTC
ESA’s GOCE satellite has reached its ambitious goal of mapping Earth's gravity with unprecedented precision. In two short years, the sophisticated satellite has collected the measurements needed to record the 'geoid' reference shape of our planet.
GOCE delivers on its promise
7 Mar 2011, 14:11 UTC
ESA’s GOCE satellite has reached its ambitious goal of mapping Earth's gravity with unprecedented precision. In two short years, the sophisticated satellite has collected the measurements needed to record the 'geoid' reference shape of our planet.
