Combining terrain data from the orbiting Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft (now dormant) with information about the robotic Spirit rover currently rolling across Mars has resulted in a digital movie that shows what a flight over the Columbia Hills might look like.
The ESA( European Space Agency) has some Fascinating and high resolution pictures depicting satellites that are in orbit around the earth along with various other pictures of the control centers and other equipment here on earth used to track them.
Curved features on Jupiter’s moon may indicate that its poles have wandered by almost 90°. Such an extreme shift suggests the existence of an internal liquid ocean beneath the icy crust, which could help build the case for Europa as possible habitat for extraterrestrial life.
In high bay 3 of the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center, a crane lowers space shuttle Discovery toward the external tank and solid rocket boosters already stacked on the mobile launcher platform. The stacking and mating took place in preparation for the launch on the STS-124 mission to the International Space Station.
Planets and asteroids circle around not one, but two suns. “Pictures and Video”
Where did the gold in your jewelry originate? No one is completely sure. The relative average abundance in our Solar System appears higher than can be made in the early universe, in stars, and even in typical supernova explosions.
A diagram explaining the expansion of the universe since the Big Bang.
Uncomfortably close Typhoon Rammasun and 25 million light-year distant galaxy M101 don’t seem to have much in common. But they do…
Venus Express has detected the molecule hydroxyl on another planet for the first time. This detection gives scientists an important new tool to unlock the workings of Venus’s dense atmosphere.
We cannot go back in time and stick a thermometer in the early universe, but astronomers have done the next best thing, using an indirect technique to find out what the universe’s temperature