Maybe it was the $100 dollar bet that Stephen Hawkings made regarding the inability of CERN to find the elusive particle seen as “a holy grail of cosmic science”, after the LHC was turned on. Or maybe it was the exhausting hours by the CERN team preparing for the LHC project over many years. Or [...]
Issues being approached for the Hubble Repair Mission are due to ground diagnosis for the telescope, using clues from telemetry by NASA similar to a mysterious “CSI Goddard Mission” based on little things viewed or obtained through data. But the hardware is not on the ground, so newly developed tools are being designed to handle [...]
With the change in launching date of NASA’s Hubble Repair Mission and as time approaches, the media is filling the airwaves with questions and concerns on NASA Television. Questions like “are MMODs a major concern” and “why choose a crew member of four instead of two” are approached by the NASA panel regarding the upcoming [...]
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The endeavour of science brings nations together towards a common goal, and many of CERN’s experiments are international collaborations. The Laboratory welcomes many visiting physicists every year from all over the world. Some may stay for a seminar, whereas others may remain for months or even years working on an experiment.
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“The LHC will start up [...]
“This is the first picture of a clay-sized particle on Mars, and the size agrees with predictions from the colors seen in sunsets on the Red Planet,” said Phoenix co-investigator Urs Staufer of the University of Neuchatel, Switzerland, who leads a Swiss consortium that made the lander’s microscope.
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The ultrafine speck of red dust from Mars [...]
Before we get started, I would like to personally thank Fraser Cain of Universe Today for allowing me to host the Carnival for the very first time EVER!! I hope I don’t misspell “teh” or something, but don’t count on it. I would also like to thank all the Carnival of Space bloggers for [...]
“We think that there’s enough energy to continue digging and delivery to instruments through at least 120 sols, and then after that, our energy starts to go down, but we can still do operations as a weather station,” said Phoenix robotic arm co-investigator Ray Arvidson of Washington University in St. Louis.
With the NASA Phoenix Lander [...]
With Hubble’s Servicing Mission 4 (SM4) actually its fifth visit to the orbiting telescope, the WFC3 will study the “early and distant galaxies” in addition to the galaxies in our own neighborhood, with the prior currently beyond Hubble’s reach. Meanwhile, the COS will study the large-scale structure of the universe, obtaining a better understanding [...]
Hubble will be retrieved from its orbit by the Shuttle’s robotic arm and placed in the payload bay for servicing.
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“The repair of STIS, and of ACS in particular, involves techniques that the astronauts have never done before on Hubble, possibly never before anywhere,” explained Dr. Dave Leckrone, Senior Project Scientist for Hubble Space Telescope. “That [...]
“We’re happy with the rovers’ overall performance,” concurred Jake Matijevic, chief of rover engineering at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), where the rovers were designed and are being managed.
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Recently passing through their third Martian winter, both Opportunity and Spirit have made their mission a landmark in history, with individuals such as Steve Squyres, principal investigator [...]
