Two Studies Question NASA’s Future
As NASA officially works towards a manned asteroid mission, NASA employees are asking "why bother?" (Credits: NASA). Two studies out this week... Read more →
A Cloudless Nighttime Earth
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 →
NASA, ESA Try Out “Interplanetary Internet” Technology
International Space Station expedition lead Sunita Williams recently steered a Lego Mindstorms robot at an ESA facility in Darmstadt while she was... Read more →
Echoes of Caves 2012: New Species Brought to Light
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 →
Video: Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM)
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 →
NASA Announces Robotic Mars Mission for 2020
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 →