SmallGEO/H36W-1 liftoff replay
The first mission to use ESA’s SmallGEO platform, Hispasat 36W-1, is launched from Europe’s Spaceport in in French Guiana atop a Soyuz launcher. SmallGEO is a multipurpose satellite ...
Sentinel satellite captures birth of behemoth iceberg
In January 2017 alone it travelled 20 km, reaching a total length of about 175 km. Scientists from Project MIDAS, an Antarctic research consortium led by Swansea University in the UK...
Sentinel-5P launch preparations in full swing
With liftoff set for 13 October, engineers at Russia’s Plesetsk launch site are steaming ahead with the task of getting Europe’s next Copernicus satellite ready for its journey into ...
Sentinel-2B liftoff
Replay of the Sentinel-2B liftoff on a Vega launcher from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana at 01:49 GMT (02:49 CET) on 7 March 2017. Sentinel-2B is the second satellite in the Sen...
Sentinel-2 captures coral bleaching of Great Barrier Reef
Applications Sentinel-2 captures coral bleaching of Great Barrier Reef 24/05/2017 12879 views 95 likes Scientists observed the bleaching of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef early this...
Researchers explore possibilities of growing plants on Mars
A little more than a year after the Buzz Aldrin Space Institute opened at Florida Tech with the overarching mission to get humans to Mars, this horticultural research will attempt to...
Quantifying the effects of climate change
Applications Quantifying the effects of climate change 05/06/2017 12001 views 145 likes Last year was the hottest on record, Arctic sea ice is on the decline and sea levels continue...
Printing bricks from moondust using the Sun’s heat
Enabling & Support Printing bricks from moondust using the Sun’s heat 03/05/2017 14959 views 140 likes Bricks have been 3D printed out of simulated moondust using concentrated s...
New MAVEN findings reveal how Mars’ atmosphere was lost to space
We’ve determined that most of the gas ever present in the Mars atmosphere has been lost to space, said Bruce Jakosky, principal investigator for MAVEN and a professor at the Laborato...
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx takes its first image of Jupiter
This magnified, cropped image showing Jupiter and three of its moons was taken by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft’s MapCam instrument during optical navigation testing for the mission’s...
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx takes closer image of Jupiter
During Earth-Trojan asteroid search operations, the PolyCam imager aboard NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft captured this image of Jupiter (center) and three of its moons, Callisto (left)...
NASA’s MAVEN mission observes ups and downs of water escape from Mars
After investigating the upper atmosphere of the Red Planet for a full Martian year, NASA’s MAVEN mission has determined that the escaping water does not always go gently into space. ...
NASA’s Hubble takes close-up portrait of Jupiter
At a distance of 415 million miles (668 million kilometers) from Earth, Jupiter offered spectacular views of its colorful, roiling atmosphere, the legendary Great Red Spot, and it sm...
NASA moon data provides more accurate 2017 eclipse path
The path of this shadow, also known as the path of totality, is where observers will see the moon completely cover the sun. For slightly more accurate maps, people use elevation tabl...
MAVEN’s top 10 discoveries at Mars
MAVEN has made tremendous discoveries about the Mars upper atmosphere and how it interacts with the sun and the solar wind, said Bruce Jakosky, MAVEN principal investigator from the ...
Mars-bound astronauts face chronic dementia risk from galactic cosmic ray exposure
Irvine, Calif. – Will astronauts traveling to Mars remember much of it? UCI’s Charles Limoli and colleagues found that exposure to highly energetic charged particles - much like thos...
Lunar Exploration
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Hubble takes close-up portrait of Jupiter
This image adds to many others made in the past, and together they allow astronomers to study changes in the atmosphere of the gas giant. The final image shows a sharp view of Jupite...
Gravitational wave mission selected, planet-hunting mission moves forward
Science & Exploration Gravitational wave mission selected, planet-hunting mission moves forward 20/06/2017 16392 views 146 likes The LISA trio of satellites to detect gravitatio...
First steps: returning humanity to the Moon
Science & Exploration First steps: returning humanity to the Moon 20/09/2017 20892 views 297 likes In the first act of lunar exploration, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were maj...
First results from long-term, hi-res tracking of eruptions on Jupiter’s moon Io
Using near-infrared adaptive optics on two of the world’s largest telescopes - the 10-meter Keck II and the 8-meter Gemini North, both located near the summit of the dormant volcano ...
First detection of boron on the surface of Mars
No prior mission to Mars has found boron, said Patrick Gasda, a postdoctoral researcher at Los Alamos National Laboratory. If the boron that we found in calcium sulfate mineral veins...
Experiment resolves mystery about wind flows on Jupiter
The challenge to re-creating swirling winds in the lab was building a model of a planet with three key attributes believed to be necessary for jets to form: rapid rotation, turbulenc...
ESA’s Proba-3 will create artificial solar eclipses
Enabling & Support ESA’s Proba-3 will create artificial solar eclipses 17/08/2017 7416 views 107 likes Astrophysicists are joining sightseers in watching Monday’s total solar ec...
ESA’s Jupiter mission moves off the drawing board
Science & Exploration ESA’s Jupiter mission moves off the drawing board 16/03/2017 8975 views 139 likes Demanding electric, magnetic and power requirements, harsh radiation, and...