Jun 22
If there’s ever a night to let the moon hit your eye like a big pizza pie, it’s amore tonight. If you go gaze into the abyss over head this evening, you’ll be treated to a supermoon,
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Jun 21
In case you missed the supermoon of 2011 and 2012, this weekend you’ll have the chance to see the moon at its closet point to the Earth, which will peak on Sunday. Such a phenomenon makes the moon appear huge, and will be the largest of 2013. The supermoon has long been a source of
Jun 21
NASA‘s Curiosity rover has sent more than a few pictures of the Red Planet back to its Earth-bound audience, a great deal of which have been made freely available for the public to view on the space agency’s website. The latest image to be made public, however, stands out from the rest due to its
Jun 20
Jun 20
Sure, they’re mostly just pictures of sand and rocks, but we still have to thank the Curiosity rover for beaming back images of landscapes we’ll never walk on. To give you a panoramic view of a Mars area called “Rocknest” with Mount Sharp visible on the horizon, NASA stitched together almost 900 exposure shots into a single 1.3-billion-pixel image. The photos were taken over the course of more than a month (from October 5th to November 16th last year) at different times of the day, so you can observe variations in illumination and thickness of dust in the atmosphere throughout the panorama. Head over to the source to access the whole interactive mosaic replete with pan and zoom controls, and if you’re lucky, you might even see a rock the rover’s laser zapped in the past.
[Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS]
Via: Wired
Source: NASA
Jun 20
If you’ve ever eaten the dehydrated "space food" sold in novelty shops, you probably thought, "Oh hey, not bad!" Now imagine eating the same thing for years on end. Yup, it would get boring.
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Jun 19
While the Curiosity rover is chugging along on the surface of Mars, NASA is making other discoveries from samples taken from other Mars rovers. This time around, looking at rock samples from NASA’s Spirit rover, scientists have discovered that Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere some four billion years ago, which was long before when Earth
Jun 19
Take away all of the water, cities, and roads on Earth’s surface, and you’re left with nothing but patches of lush, lovely green. These are exactly the kinds of pictures that the Suomi NPP satellite from NASA and the NOAA, produce. The satellite tracks only the planet’s vegetation, and the video above covers the shift in one full calendar year. It’s amazing how much change takes place in such a short period of time.
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Jun 19
NASA has already sent several rovers to Mars, but the ultimate goal is to send man to Mars. However, that’s a huge undertaking which requires a ton of resources. NASA, being a government agency, doesn’t have the amount of resources at the moment to undertake a manned mission to the red planet, leaving the door
Jun 19
It’s a great time for Lego: there’s going to be a movie based on the building bricks, and the company just announced its latest set. As a part of Lego’s Cuusoo project, fans are able to send in designs and ideas for future Lego sets, and the Mars Curiosity rover won this round, beating out
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