Sentinel-3A set for launch
Carrying a suite of state-of-the-art instruments to measure Earth’s oceans, land and ice, Sentinel-3A will soon be shipped to the Plesetsk launch site in Russia To source
Nile Delta Fertility
Earth observation image of the week: a Sentinel-2A image of Cairo, Egypt, also featured on the Earth from Space video programme To source
Gorgeous Auroras Could Light Up Entire Martian Sky
This artist’s conception shows auroras visible on Mars caused by magnetic anomalies. Even brighter Martian auroras may light the sky in regions with no magnetic field at all.Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS and CSW/DB The first astronauts to set foot on Mars may be in for a spectacular sight — the entire night sky filled with glowing auroras. […]
NASA Pluto Probe Sets Course for Second Flyby Target
This artist’s illustration depicts NASA’s New Horizons probe flying by a small object in the distant Kuiper Belt, beyond Pluto’s orbit.Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute/Steve Gribben The NASA probe that flew by Pluto in July is now all lined up for a potential close encounter with a second faraway object, in […]
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