Even though the solar activity was well known to the early Chinese astronomers, it was not first observed by Galileo until 1612 with his new telescope, a Dutch version. He also discovered the Jupiter moons, the Moon and its craters, along with Venus. But when he saw the Sun, he also saw some dark [...]
Solar Probe+ is a heat resistant spacecraft that will plunge directly into the atmosphere of the Sun, prepared to sample the solar wind and magnetism that very little is known about—hopefully beginning its mission around 2015. With NASA making this a seven-year mission, the probe is still in pre-phase A stage with a lot [...]
“We are awash in chemistry data,” said Michael Hecht of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, lead scientist for the Microscopy, Electrochemistry and Conductivity Analyzer, or MECA, instrument on Phoenix. “We’re trying to understand what is the chemistry of wet soil on Mars, what’s dissolved in it, how acidic or alkaline it is. With the results we [...]
According to astrophysicist Dr. Hugh Ross, “NASA has a shot at discovering life’s remains on Mars.” The scientist notes that, “Just as meteors travel from Mars to Earth so also do they travel from Earth to Mars. Over the past four billion years, at least several billion tons of Earth material, much of it life-carrying [...]
\”Understanding our home planet better is a key benefit of space exploration,\” said Friedman. \”Both explorations of the solar system and Earth observations from space have contributed greatly to that understanding,\” Bill Nye said. \”Earth observing is a key to our survival, and goes hand-in-hand with planetary exploration as part of humankind’s efforts to [...]
“Globally, on average, sea levels are rising,” said Steven Neek of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate at NASA’s Washington, D.C., headquarters, in a Tuesday briefing. “This is a complex phenomenon which we need to understand better through flying new spacecraft.”
The French Space Agency CNES spacecraft has joined hands with NASA for the development of OSTM, or [...]
New science technologies are being prepared by NASA researchers to allow spaceships to fly in magnetic formation, instead of the traditional old-fashioned “jets of gas and Newton’s Third law old-fashioned thrusters”. By using new methods of superconducting magnets that will replace the older formation methods, arrays of solar cells will provide power for the [...]
NASA Takes on Arctic Haze Project
“Other instruments allow us to tell where the air is coming from, its fingerprints of various pollution sources,” Hanwant Singh said. “Yet other instruments try to understand how the particles interact with clouds and how that might affect the Arctic climate.”
When the term “arctic haze” comes to the mind of [...]
Not too long ago, on April 19th we did an article titled, “Man in the Moon on the Back Side of Earth” where we pretty much researched the fact the full moon had nothing to do with abnormal human behavior—according to the medical and scientific field, anyway, while we discussed the moon and the magnetotail.
Yet [...]
Scientists used a supercomputer-driven “virtual earthquake” to explore likely ground shaking in a magnitude 9.0 megathrust earthquake in the Pacific Northwest. Peak ground velocities are displayed in yellow and red. The legend represents speed in meters per second (m/s) with red equaling 2.3 m/s. Although the largest ground motions occur offshore near the fault and [...]
