Tag: NASA
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Chemically richer
Nasa's Cassini spacecraft has revealed unknown details about Saturn's rings-and just how strange they are.
October 10, 2018 -
Surface tensions
A prayer-field of ice may prevent a craft from alighting on Jupiter's moon, Europa.
October 10, 2018 -
NASA’s New Horizons to set record for most distant object ever visited by spacecraft
The "optical navigation" images -- gathered by New Horizons' Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) -- provide direct information of Ultima's position relative to New Horizons, and help the team determine where the spacecraft is headed.
October 8, 2018 -
NASA astronauts wrap up mission, return to earth amid US-Russia tensions
The landing came with Russian and US officials investigating the appearance of a mysterious hole in a Russian space craft docked at the orbiting station.
October 5, 2018 -
NASA completes 60 years of space research
The agency has also conducted nine manned missions and is planning for a human return to the Moon, followed by missions to Mars and beyond.
October 2, 2018 -
NASA launches satellite to track Earth’s melting ice
In a bid to understand Earth's ice sheets, glaciers, sea ice, snow cover and permafrost, NASA on Saturday successfully launched its Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite-2, or ICESat-2.
September 16, 2018 -
NASA plans 45-day campaign to get its Mars rover Opportunity back
Mars rover Opportunity has been out of contact since early June, ever since a major dust storm deprived it of solar power. The storm is learnt to be fading now
September 3, 2018 -
Of hope lurking in icy craters
Nasa's grand vision for the future notwithstanding, the best prospect for life on the Moon is if we put it there ourselves.
August 29, 2018 -
NASA’s Spitzer telescope completes 15 yrs in space
"In its 15 years of operations, Spitzer has opened our eyes to new ways of viewing the universe," said Paul Hertz, director of the Astrophysics Division.
August 26, 2018 -
Video | NASA satellite captures intense rains that caused Kerala floods
The NASA video shows satellite-based rainfall accumulation from July 19 to August 18, 2018. According to it, rainfall peaked in Kerala on July 20 and again reached abnormally high levels between August 8 and 16.
August 24, 2018 -
Hubble captures dazzling image with 15,000 galaxies
The image straddles the gap between the very distant galaxies, which can only be viewed in infrared light, and closer galaxies.
August 17, 2018 -
Why won’t NASA’s Parker Solar Probe melt?
With NASA launching a historic Parker Solar Probe deeper into the solar atmosphere than any mission before it, the question arises: Why won't it melt?
August 13, 2018 -
India to soon launch space science channel: ISRO
ISRO will also be setting up a module for students from classes 8-10 to be trained at the space agency for a month, Sivan added.
August 12, 2018 -
NASA launches world’s first mission to ‘touch’ the Sun
"The spacecraft is in good health and operating on its own. Parker Solar Probe has begun its mission to 'touch' the Sun," NASA said in a blog post.
August 12, 2018 -
NASA’s planet-hunting telescope TESS expected to discover 10,000 new planets
On April 18, 2018, NASA launched its planet hunting device named Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS, into space, aided by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
August 9, 2018 -
NASA Curiosity rover completes 6 years on Mars
Curiosity, which landed on Mars in 2012, was designed to assess whether Mars ever had an environment able to support small life forms called microbes.
August 6, 2018 -
Sunita Williams among 9 astronauts to fly into space from US soil
Since her selection as an astronaut in 1998, she has spent 322 days aboard the International Space Station (ISS) for Expeditions 14/15 and Expeditions 32/33.
August 4, 2018