NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander has taken the first-ever image of a single particle of Mars’ ubiquitous dust, using its atomic force microscope. The particle — shown at higher magnification than anything ever seen from another world — is a rounded particle about one micrometer, or one millionth of a meter, across. It is a speck of the dust that cloaks
Aldrin recently stopped by to take a moment to talk about life on Mars, lessons from the Russian and Chinese space programs and a lottery for space tourism.
New analysis makes it possible to ‘know our enemy’For the last few years, astronomers have faced a puzzle: The vast majority of asteroids that come near the Earth are of a type that matches only a tiny fraction of the meteorites that most frequently hit our planet.
NASA plans to return astronauts to the lunar surface in 12 years as the first step in establishing a permanent outpost. A team of NASA engineers aims to solve the mystery of lunar ice in late winter—by crashing its low-budget kamikaze spacecraft into a crater.
Watching a space shuttle launch from the ground is undoubtedly very awe inspiring, but this video of a launch takes the biscuit: It’s filmed from thousands of feet in the air.
Some great news from Durban University of Technology in South Africa, their newly built Indlebe Radio Telescope detected its first signal late last month. successfully detected its first radio source from beyond the solar system.