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NASA's MAVEN reveals Mars has metal in its atmosphere Washington DC (SPX) Apr 12, 2017 Mars has electrically charged metal atoms (ions) high in its atmosphere, according to new results from NASA's MAVEN spacecraft. The metal ions can reveal previously invisible activity in the mysterious electrically charged upper atmosphere (ionosphere) of Mars. "MAVEN has made the first direct detection of the permanent presence of metal ions in the ionosphere of a planet other than Earth," said Joseph Grebowsky of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. "Because metallic ... read more |
Humans to Mars Official NASA Goal, But What About Radiation Washington DC (SPX) Apr 12, 2017 Human exploration of Mars is now an official goal of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Last month, U.S. President Donald Trump signed a bill to increase NASA's budget. The la ... more Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 12, 2017 Opportunity is heading south to "Perseverance Valley" on the rim of Endeavour Crater. The rover drove on Sols 4686, 4688 and 4691 (March 30, April 1 and April 4, 2017), covering 127 feet (38.7 ... more Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 12, 2017 A fresh approach to designing and manufacturing heat-thwarting thermal protection systems (TPS) for spacecraft is being developed and tested, offering the promise of fabricating larger tile sizes wh ... more Plainsboro NJ (SPX) Apr 10, 2017 Everyone knows that the game of billiards involves balls careening off the sides of a pool table - but few people may know that the same principle applies to fusion reactions. How charged particles ... more |
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Nap Time for New Horizons Laurel MD (SPX) Apr 12, 2017 NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has eased into a long summer's nap, entering a hibernation phase on April 7 that will last until early September. Mission controllers at the Johns Hopkins University A ... more Leicester, UK (SPX) Apr 12, 2017 A second Great Spot has been discovered on Jupiter by astronomers, rivaling the scale of the planet's famous Great Red Spot and created by the powerful energies exerted by the great planet's polar a ... more Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 12, 2017 This is a composite image of Uranus by Voyager 2 and two different observations made by Hubble - one for the ring and one for the auroras. Ever since Voyager 2 beamed home spectacular images of the ... more Rochester NY (SPX) Apr 12, 2017 Images taken by NASA's New Horizons mission on its way to Pluto, and now the Kuiper Belt, have given scientists an unexpected tool for measuring the brightness of all the galaxies in the universe, s ... more Rehovot, Israel (SPX) Apr 12, 2017 In the most common type of supernova, the iron core of a massive star suddenly collapses in on itself and the outer layers are thrown out into space in a spectacular explosion. New research le ... more El Segundo CA (SPX) Apr 12, 2017 NASA has awarded Dr. Siegfried Janson of The Aerospace Corporation (Aerospace) with the 2017 NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Phase II grant award, worth approximately $500,000, for further ... more |
WHAM Brings Milky Way's Ionized Hydrogen into Focus Davis CA (SPX) Apr 12, 2017 Astronomers led by a graduate student at the University of California, Davis have discovered one of the most distant galaxies in the universe, and it's nothing out of the ordinary. "Other most ... more Munich, Germany (ESO) Apr 10, 2017 Stellar explosions are most often associated with supernovae, the spectacular deaths of stars. But new ALMA observations provide insights into explosions at the other end of the stellar life cycle, ... more Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 12, 2017 New research on solar storms finds that they not only can cause regions of excessive electrical charge in the upper atmosphere above Earth's poles, they also can do the exact opposite: cause regions ... more Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 12, 2017 A NASA ER-2 high-altitude plane has taken to the air to complete phase one of the 11-week GOES-16 Field Campaign to ensure NOAA's GOES-16 satellite provides precise satellite measurements, which wil ... more |
Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 10, 2017 A mechanical rover inspired by a Dutch artist. A weather balloon that recharges its batteries in the clouds of Venus. These are just two of the five ideas that originated at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, and are advancing for a new round of research funded by the agency. In total, the space agency is investing in 22 early-stage technology proposals that have the ... more Two Russians, one American land back on Earth from ISS No Roscosmos plans to send space tourists to ISS before 2020 You Say Tomato, I Say Tomatosphere: ISS Science to the Classroom |
Paris (ESA) Apr 10, 2017 ESA and a team of European industrial contractors led by QinetiQ have finalised an agreement with Sierra Nevada Corporation for the use of Europe's International Berthing Docking Mechanism on the Dream Chaser spaceplane. The Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) Dream Chaser is being developed as a reusable, lifting-body, multimission spacecraft capable of landing at commercial airports or space ... more Europe's largest sounding rocket launched from Esrange Bezos sells $1 bn in Amazon stock yearly to pay for rocket firm US-Russia Venture Hopes to Sell More RD-180 Rocket Engines to US |
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Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 12, 2017 Opportunity is heading south to "Perseverance Valley" on the rim of Endeavour Crater. The rover drove on Sols 4686, 4688 and 4691 (March 30, April 1 and April 4, 2017), covering 127 feet (38.79 meters), 44 feet (13.36 meters) and 91 feet (27.82 meters), respectively. Both Navigation Camera (Navcam) and Panoramic Camera (Pancam) panoramas were collected after each drive. There w ... more NASA's MAVEN reveals Mars has metal in its atmosphere Chile desert combed for clues to life on Mars Russia critcal to ExoMars Project says Italian Space Agency Head |
Nanjing (XNA) Mar 31, 2017 Yuanwang space tracking ships, which follows the progress of satellites and other space-bound craft, will carry out 19 maritime space monitoring missions in 2017, according to the maritime satellite measurement and control authority on Wednesday. Yuanwang-5 left port Wednesday and Yuanwang-6 started its journey Monday. Yuanwang-7 and the rocket transporting fleet will set sail in Apr ... more China Develops Spaceship Capable of Moon Landing Long March-7 Y2 ready for launch of China's first cargo spacecraft China Seeks Space Rockets Launched from Airplanes |
Colorado Springs CO (Sputnik) Apr 10, 2017 Ukraine's State Space Agency is currently in accession discussions with the European Space Agency (ESA) to become its member, Chairman Yuriy Radchenko told Sputnik on the margins of the Space Symposium in Colorado Springs. Last Tuesday, Radchenko said during the symposium that Ukraine was actively cooperating with the ESA with a goal to become a member of the agency. When asked wheth ... more Horizon 2020 European funded DEMOCRITOS project concludes work with some key outcomes BRICS States Want to Expand Cooperation to Space Science Mitsubishi Electric to Build New Satellite Production Facility |
Washington DC (SPX) Apr 10, 2017 The U.S. government has always had an interest in developing and maintaining a strategic understanding of events, situations, and trends around the world. In recent years, however, information complexity has exceeded the capacity of analysts to glean meaningful or actionable insights as data pours in from disparate sources, across a variety of genres, and a mixture of structured and unstructured ... more Humans to Mars Official NASA Goal, But What About Radiation Seaweed: From superfood to superconductor NASA Fellow studies new heatshield-making technique |
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Cape Cod MA (SPX) Apr 10, 2017 Octopus, squid, and cuttlefish are famous for engaging in complex behavior, from unlocking an aquarium tank and escaping to instantaneous skin camouflage to hide from predators. A new study suggests their evolutionary path to neural sophistication includes a novel mechanism: Prolific RNA editing at the expense of evolution in their genomic DNA. The study, led by Joshua J.C. Rosenthal of th ... more Scientists look for life's building blocks in outer space Exoplanet mission gets ticket to ride Atmosphere around super-earth detected |
Washington DC (SPX) Apr 10, 2017 This image, taken by the JunoCam imager on NASA's Juno spacecraft, highlights a feature on Jupiter where multiple atmospheric conditions appear to collide. This publicly selected target is called "STB Spectre." The ghostly bluish streak across the right half of the image is a long-lived storm, one of the few structures perceptible in these whitened latitudes where the south temperate belt ... more Nap Time for New Horizons Hubble spots auroras on Uranus Cold' Great Spot discovered on Jupiter |
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Onna, Japan (SPX) Apr 10, 2017 The Crown-of-Thorns Starfish - or COTS - is a familiar sight for scuba divers in tropical waters: the starfish, resembling the biblical that gave it its name, swarms over coral reefs around the world in huge spawning and destructive events. In the modern era, COTS were first reported in 1957 from the very shores in front of OIST, in the village of Onna-son, Okinawa where it is locally known as " ... more Powers of attraction could decimate deadly starfish Most deep-sea animals produce their own light, research shows UBC invention uses bacteria to purify water |
Paris (ESA) Apr 10, 2017 Europe's Galileo satnav network does more than let us find our way - it is also helping to save lives. Today sees a spotlight cast on Galileo's Search and Rescue service, which pinpoints people in distress on land or sea. The service is Europe's contribution to the Cospas-Sarsat international satellite-based locating system that has helped to rescue more than 42 000 people since 1982 - the ... more Northrop Grumman, Honeywell receive EGI-M contracts Russia inaugurates GPS-type satellite station in Nicaragua China's BeiDou system to expand cooperation to SE Asia |
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Providence RI (SPX) Mar 30, 2017 While orbiting the Moon in 1971, the crew of Apollo 15 photographed a strange geological feature - a bumpy, D-shaped depression about two miles long and a mile wide - that has fascinated planetary scientists ever since. Some have suggested that the feature, known as Ina, is evidence of a volcanic eruption Moon within the past 100 million years - a billion years or so after most volcanic activity ... more Surviving the long dark night of the Moon Team Indus To Send Seven Experiments To The Moon Including Three From India Sun Devils working for a chance to induce photosynthesis on our lunar neighbor |
Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 10, 2017 A relatively large near-Earth asteroid discovered nearly three years ago will fly safely past Earth on April 19 at a distance of about 1.1 million miles (1.8 million kilometers), or about 4.6 times the distance from Earth to the moon. Although there is no possibility for the asteroid to collide with our planet, this will be a very close approach for an asteroid of this size. The asteroid, ... more Rosetta's intimate portrait of a comet: read all about it Ceres' temporary atmosphere linked to solar activity Comet That Took a Century to Confirm Passes by Earth |
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Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 12, 2017 New research on solar storms finds that they not only can cause regions of excessive electrical charge in the upper atmosphere above Earth's poles, they also can do the exact opposite: cause regions that are nearly depleted of electrically charged particles. The finding adds to our knowledge of how solar storms affect Earth and could possibly lead to improved radio communication and navigation s ... more NASA's High-Altitude Plane Takes to the Sky for GOES-16 Field Campaign Satellites map carbon sequestered by forests, with accuracy of up to 10 meters Spaceflight Industries Reveals BlackSky Spectra |
Kyoto, Japan (SPX) Apr 10, 2017 Ice cores and ancient sediments can be gleaned for clues to weather and climate in the past. But astronomical phenomena - such as solar flares or auroras - at best leave only faint environmental traces lacking in specificity. So how can we accurately track ancient astronomical events? Now in a collaborative effort between the arts and sciences, researchers at Kyoto University and Japan's N ... more Discovery of a source of fast magnetic reconnection Waves on sun give NASA new insight into space weather forecasting Next Stop: A Trip Inside the Sun's Atmosphere |
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Madison WI (SPX) Apr 12, 2017 Like a lot of pioneering science, the Wisconsin H-Alpha Mapper (WHAM) got its start as the shoestring project of a curious young researcher. Sawing a hole in the ceiling of an office at the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Physical Sciences Laboratory in the late 1970s, astrophysicist Ron Reynolds pointed a specially built spectrometer skyward for the first time and discovered a previously unkn ... more The making of a supernova Long ago and far away, an average galaxy Device boosts interaction between light and motion |
Rochester NY (SPX) Apr 12, 2017 Images taken by NASA's New Horizons mission on its way to Pluto, and now the Kuiper Belt, have given scientists an unexpected tool for measuring the brightness of all the galaxies in the universe, said a Rochester Institute of Technology researcher in a paper published this week in Nature Communications. In the study, "Measurement of the Cosmic Optical Background using the Long Range Recon ... more Scientists make progress on unravelling the puzzle of merging black holes Peering into Black Holes Using an Earth-sized Telescope Lego figures don't stand a chance against time reversal |
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