Image of the Day: Star Field from ISS
Image captured by astronaut Tim Peake aboard the International Space Station. He tagged this picture, “More stars in the Universe than grains of sand on Earth – easy to believe from up here.” Source: popsci.com Continue reading Image of the Day: Star Field from ISS
Image of the Day: Phytoplankton in the Barents Sea
Image captured by NASA’s terra satellite. Souce: nationalgeoraphic.com Continue reading Image of the Day: Phytoplankton in the Barents Sea
News Update: Rosetta Mission comes to end, crash landing on comet 67P
Today at about 11:40 am (BST) the Rosetta spacecraft collided with the surface of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko after a mission time of nearly 13 years. What was the Rosetta Mission? Launched on March 2, 2004, it took the spacecraft 10 years to cover the nearly 500 million miles from Earth. The European Space Agency had a few goals in mind when they created this mission: Take … Continue reading News Update: Rosetta Mission comes to end, crash landing on comet 67P
Image of the Day: A Martian Island
An image captured by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter of an island formed by an ancient flood. Source: nationalgeographic.com Continue reading Image of the Day: A Martian Island
Image of the Day: Spacewalk Selfie
Astronaut Mike Hopkins on a spacewalk. Source: nasa.gov Continue reading Image of the Day: Spacewalk Selfie
News Update: Elon Musk unveils his plan to colonize Mars
Today, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk stood before the International Aeronautical Congress and released his visions for the human race’s journey to becoming an interplanetary species. Hitching a ride to Mars on a private rocket may not be so unrealistic as many people believe. Musk first stated that his main goal for the presentation was to “make Mars seem possible” and to show that private space … Continue reading News Update: Elon Musk unveils his plan to colonize Mars
Image of the Day: X-Ray Portrait of the Sun
X-Rays seen streaming off the sun captured by NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR. Source: jpl.nasa.gov Continue reading Image of the Day: X-Ray Portrait of the Sun
Image of the Day: RS-25 Engine Test Fire
Four of these engines will power the core stage of NASA’s Space Launch System that is designed to bring humans past the moon and eventually to Mars. Source: ScienceDaily.com Continue reading Image of the Day: RS-25 Engine Test Fire
Building an Artificial Star: Our world’s hope for everlasting clean energy?
Scientists and engineers have been searching for a clean and efficient energy alternative to fossil fuels for decades and the ITER project just may be the solution. The largest scientific collaboration on Earth second to the International Space Station, the International Thermoelectric Experimental Reactor intends to utilize the same energy source that powers our Sun and the billions of other stars across the universe. Conceived as … Continue reading Building an Artificial Star: Our world’s hope for everlasting clean energy?
