Space in Everyday Life2

A Cloudless Nighttime Earth

By Staff Writers on December 6, 2012

In a new view of Earth that is being called the "Black Marble", the NASA/NOAA Suomi NPP satellite has used its high resolution Visible Infrared... Read more →

Spacecraft Design

NASA, ESA Try Out “Interplanetary Internet” Technology

By Hubert Foy on December 6, 2012

International Space Station expedition lead Sunita Williams recently steered a Lego Mindstorms robot at an ESA facility in Darmstadt while she was... Read more →

Space Science

Echoes of Caves 2012: New Species Brought to Light

By Tereza Pultarova on December 5, 2012

Apart from providing a unique space analogue setting, the Sardinian caves where ESA’s 2012 caving adventure took place, revealed an entirely new... Read more →

Media1

Video: Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM)

By Staff Writers on December 5, 2012

The short video below shows how  samples are delivered and then tested in the Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) suite on the Mars Curiosity rover. SAM... Read more →

News

NASA Announces Robotic Mars Mission for 2020

By Staff Writers on December 5, 2012

Source: NASA NASA will be building a second rover based on Curiosity to join its predecessor on Mars. They'd better get started, though - the... Read more →

Cyber Security

Epsilon Rocket Data Stolen by Hackers

By Matteo Emanuelli on December 5, 2012

Japan's Epsilon rocket (Credits: JAXA). On Friday November 30th, the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) announced an investigation... Read more →