Mars Lost Atmosphere to Space as Life Took Hold on Earth
Artist’s illustration of a solar storm hitting Mars and stripping ions from the planet’s upper atmosphere.Credit: NASA/GSFC The window for life to take root across broad stretches of the Martian surface may have closed shortly after the first microbes evolved on Earth. New results from NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft suggest that the Red Planet lost most […]
Mars Atmosphere Being 'Stripped' By Solar Wind – Probe Data Animated
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NASA Mission Reveals Speed of Solar Wind Stripping Martian Atmosphere
NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission has identified the process that appears to have played a key role in the transition of the Martian climate from an early, warm and wet environment that might have supported surface life to the cold, arid planet Mars is today. To source
NASA Mission Reveals Speed of Solar Wind Stripping Martian Atmosphere
NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission has identified the process that appears to have played a key role in the transition of the Martian climate from an early, warm and wet environment that might have supported surface life to the cold, arid planet Mars is today. To source
'Search For Another Earth' – Where We Stand and How It Began | Video
On Oct. 6th, 1995, the reported discovery of jupiter-like exoplanet 51 Pegasi b catalyzed serious scientific quests for another Earth-like world. Told by the astronomers who competed and collaborated, this video chronicles why we now believe there are more than a billion rocky worlds, in possibly habitable orbits, throughout our Milky Way Galaxy. (How to […]
Flight Testing NASA's Prandtl-D Research Aircraft
NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center engineers are working on an increasingly complex aircraft called the Preliminary Research Aerodynamic Design to Lower Drag, or Prandtl-D. The aircraft features a new method for determining the shape of the wing with a twist that could lead to an 11-percent reduction in fuel consumption. To source
Flight Testing NASA's Prandtl-D Research Aircraft
NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center engineers are working on an increasingly complex aircraft called the Preliminary Research Aerodynamic Design to Lower Drag, or Prandtl-D. The aircraft features a new method for determining the shape of the wing with a twist that could lead to an 11-percent reduction in fuel consumption. To source
Mars' Next Rover Remote Controlled From 620 Miles Away | Time-Lapse Video
The European Space Agency’s ExoMars 2018 rover was tested in the Netherlands on Oct. 28th and 29th, 2015. The rover was commanded to roll off its mock-up landing platform by mission controllers located at their command center hundreds of miles away. Credit: ESA To source
Subscale Glider Makes First Flight
The first flight of the Preliminary Research Aerodynamic Design to Lower Drag, or Prandtl-D No. 3, completed a set of flight tests on Oct. 28. To source
Expert Voices – Don Lincoln
Don Lincoln, senior scientist at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and adjunct professor of physics at the University of Notre Dame, conducts his research using the Compact Muon Solenoid detector located at the Large Hadron Collider. His scientific interest is broad, spanning such questions as the nature of dark matter, understanding why we see no antimatter […]
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Aha Moment! Art & Science Converge to Inspire Creative Solutions
NEW YORK — In our first public event, Space.com featured the art of mathematician and cosmologist Ed Belbruno in a gallery showing at New York’s Café Minerva — and, next door, hosted a panel discussion probing science, art and the origin of inspiration with a problem-solving artist, an artistic scientist and Belbruno himself, who mingles […]
Intense Antares Rocket Explosion Shown in Newly Released NASA Photos
Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport Pad 0A is seen on Oct. 28, 2014 after Orbital Sciences’ Antares rocket, with the robotic Cygnus spacecraft onboard, suffered a catastrophic anomaly moments after launch at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky A series of newly released photos shows last year’s explosion of a private cargo-carrying rocket in dramatic […]