A 12-frame mosaic released by NASA 06 March 2000 provides the highest resolution view ever obtained of the side of Jupiter’s moon Europa that faces the giant planet. US astronomers looking for life in the solar system believe that Europa, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Image Credit: NASA/CXC/NGST NASA’S Chandra Suggests Rare Explosion Created Our Galaxy’s Youngest Black Hole By News Release WASHINGTON — New data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory suggest a highly distorted supernova remnant may contain the most recent black hole formed […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
NASA’s MRO mission has determined that the Red Planet goes through seasonal changes just like Earth does. The changes, however, are very different than what we experience on our home world. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona NASA’s MRO spacecraft arrived […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
New Curiosity self portrait especially shows the alien terrain of Yellowknife Bay on Mars now 216 million mi. from Earth. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS. Motion sequence for the drilling of the subsurface rock sample shows the 7.5 ft. robotic arm move the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Jupiter’s icy moon Europa. Credit: NASA One model of Europa’s ice. Some scientists think fresh seawater regularly cycles up to the surface of the moon through cracks, making exploration of the ocean more accessible to future landers. Credit: K. Kalousová […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This artist’s concept shows the Euclid spacecraft. The telescope will launch to an orbit around the sun-Earth Lagrange point L2. The Lagrange point is a location where the gravitational pull of two large masses, the sun and Earth in this […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A zoomed-in view of the shiny protuberance. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Malin Space Science Systems. Scientist Explains the Weird Shiny Thing on Mars by NANCY ATKINSON on FEBRUARY 12, 2013 As we reported last week, images from the Curiosity rover showed what looked […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Curiosity’s First Sample Drilling At the center of this image from NASA’s Curiosity rover is the hole in a rock called “John Klein” where the rover conducted its first sample drilling on Mars. The drilling took place on Feb. 8, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Engineers swab the Curiosity rover’s heat shield to test its cleanliness. Credit: NASA Can Hitchhiking Earth Microbes Thrive on Mars? By John Matson | February 7, 2013 LOS ANGELES—When the Curiosity rover lifted off toward Mars, the spacecraft carried a […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Homestake This image of Homestake, which Opportunity took with her Pancam back in December 2011, was processed here by Stuart Atkinson. It shows the “sparkly bits” that Ray Arvidson, MER deputy principal investigator, talked about in past MER Updates. The […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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