Star Chart: The Virtual Reality Planetarium App (Images)
<div data-cycle-pager-template=”” readability=”32″> Star Chart: VR Skywatching Credit: Star Chart A new virtual reality app lets users explore the solar system up close, from scorching-hot Mercury to faraway Pluto and beyond. Take a look at some views from the Star Chart program here. <div data-cycle-pager-template=”” readability=”31″> Saturn in Star Chart for VR Credit: Star Chart […]
Red Planet Triumphs and Defeats: A History of Mars Missions
Artist’s impression of the ExoMars 2016 mission, including the Trace Gas Orbiter and Schiaparelli, a small landing demonstrator module. Credit: ESA/ATG Medialab Missions to Mars have never been easy. On March 14, Europe and Russia are scheduled to launch the first phase of the two-part ExoMars program toward the Red Planet. The spacecraft will carry […]
Star Chart Virtual Reality App Puts Planetarium on Your Smartphone
A close-up of Saturn in Star Chart for VR. Credit: Star Chart A new virtual reality app lets users explore the solar system up close, from scorching-hot Mercury to faraway Pluto and beyond. The app, called Star Chart for VR , is billed as the first virtual reality planetarium. When used with the Google Cardboard […]
Shadow of the Moon: Satellites See Total Solar Eclipse from Space (Photo)
The shadow of the moon is clearly visible on Earth’s Pacific Ocean in this spectacular full-planet view of the total solar eclipse of March 8/9, 2016 from space by the NASA-NOAA Suomi-NPP satellite. Credit: NASA/NOAA/GSFC/Suomi NPP/VIIRS The moon’s shadow covers part of the South Pacific Ocean like a ragged brown blanket in newly released satellite […]
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Amazing Total Solar Eclipse Photos Show 'Black Hole in the Sky'
Photographers turned out in force to capture views of the spectacular total solar eclipse visible from Indonesia and across Southeast Asia Wednesday (March 9) — and their varied, beautiful images show the many faces of that celestial event. Here’s a sampling of the amazing solar eclipse snapshots we found in our mail today. NASA tracked the […]
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Technology image of the week: Tenerife, as imaged by ESA’s Proba-V minisatellite, is set to host the Big Data from Space conference To source
Proba-2's partial eclipse
ESA’s Sun-watching Proba-2 minisatellite watched the Pacific’s partial solar eclipse from up in Earth orbit To source
Orbital ATK Names Space Station Freighter for Fallen Columbia Astronaut
The S.S. Rick Husband Cygnus spaceship is seen being prepared for Orbital ATK’s OA-6 space station resupply mission, which is scheduled to launch on March 22, 2016. Credit: NASA/Bill White The next U.S. commercial spacecraft to deliver cargo to the International Space Station will fly with the name of the late NASA astronaut who commanded […]
NASA Quarter-Scale Space Shuttle Model Lands in Georgia for Display
A quarter-scale replica of a NASA space shuttle used in the 1970s for vibration and load testing will go on display at Columbus State University’s Coca-Cola Space Science Center in Georgia. Credit: CCSSC The largest sub-scale engineering model of a NASA space shuttle ever built has touched down at a Georgia airport, where the almost […]
NASA Aims to Launch Troubled Mars Lander in May 2018
Artist’s illustration of NASA’s InSight lander on the Martian surface. InSight is now scheduled to launch on May 5, 2018, after a two-year delay. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA has decided to save, rather than scrap, a robotic Mars mission that missed its launch opportunity this month. The space agency is now targeting a May 2018 liftoff […]
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