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Launch Photos: Europe's ExoMars 2016 Mission Rockets Toward the Red Planet
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Touring the Cygnus Supply Spacecraft Clean Room (Photos)
Reporters toured the Kennedy Space Center clean room where NASA’s next cargo vehicle is prepared for launch March 8. The unit, Orbital ATK’s Cygnus spacecraft, will launch to the International Space Station attached to an Atlas rocket made by United Launch Alliance. Credit: Amy Thompson/Space.com CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Tucked inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing […]
What Bit a Chunk Out of Pluto's Ice?
Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI Pluto has proven itself to be a diverse, dynamic and fascinating world packed with strange phenomena that planetary scientists are having problems fully explaining. And now they’ve found an icy oddity that highlights one of the key processes that is believed to shape this dwarf planet’s surprisingly young surface. PHOTOS: Dive Onto Pluto’s […]
How Satellites Find Shipwrecks From Space
Long sediment plumes extend from the wreck sites of the SS Sansip and SS Samvurn i this image from the NASA/USGS Landsat satellite. Credit: NASA/USGS Landsat/Jesse Allen/NASA Earth Observatory/Matthias Baeye et. al. It’s estimated that some three million shipwrecks are scattered across the oceans, with a quarter possibly resting in the North Atlantic. Now satellites […]
Next Mission to Mars Launches Monday: Watch It Live
The Proton rocket that will launch the ExoMars 2016 spacecraft to Mars is shown being moved into a vertical position at the launch pad at Baikonur, Kazakhstan, on March 11, 2016, ahead of a planned March 14 launch. Credit: ESA-Stephane Corvaja A European-led Mars mission is blasting off early Monday morning (March 14), and you […]
Wow! Total Solar Eclipse Seen from 1 Million Miles Away (Video)
The moon’s dark shadow travels across Earth’s face in spectacular new views of Tuesday’s (March 8) total solar eclipse captured by a satellite in deep space. The images, which have been combined into a gorgeous total solar eclipse video , were taken by the Deep Space Climate Observatory satellite (DSCOVR), which sits at a gravitationally […]
Wild Ride to Mars: Inside ExoMars' Schiaparelli Lander Prototype
A model of ExoMars’ Schiaparelli lander prepares for thermal tests in Cannes, France. The European Space Agency’s Mars lander will hurtle to the planet’s surface Oct. 19, and its heat shields will have to withstand about 2,732 degrees Fahrenheit (1,500 degrees Celsius). Credit: B. Bethge/ESA The ExoMars mission launching Monday (March 14) will pack an […]
The Most Amazing Space Photos This Week!
Bands of bright solar plasma, or streams of charged particles, stretch between magnetically active regions on the sun’s surface in this image captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory. The Earth-orbiting spacecraft, which has been watching the sun since 2010, carries a piece of equipment called the Extreme Ultraviolet Variability Experiment to measure strong ultraviolet emissions, […]
The Science of ExoMars: New Mission to Hunt for Mars Life
Artist’s illustration showing the separation of the ExoMars 2016 entry, descent and landing demonstrator module, named Schiaparelli, from the Trace Gas Orbiter, and heading for Mars. Credit: ESA/ATG medialab If the European-led ExoMars mission successfully launches into space tomorrow (March 14) as planned, scientists will have two intrepid new scouts in their search for life […]
Photos: Europe's ExoMars Missions to Mars in Pictures
<div data-cycle-pager-template=”” readability=”33.5″> ExoMars’ Trace Gas Orbiter and Schiaparelli Lander Credit: ESA/ATG medialab Artist’s illustration showing the separation of the ExoMars 2016 entry, descent and landing demonstrator module, named Schiaparelli, from the Trace Gas Orbiter, and heading for Mars. <div data-cycle-pager-template=”” readability=”32″> ExoMars Launch Credit: ESA The first phase of the ExoMars mission flew toward […]
Best Space Stories of The Week!
The south pole of Jupiter is seen from an altitude of 32,000 miles (52,000 kilometers) in this enhanced color mosaic of images from NASA’s JunoCam. Cyclones up to 600 miles wide (1,000 km) are visible. Juno gets a first look at Jupiter’s marvelous poles, the world’s largest (current) aircraft goes for a spin, Earth science […]