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58E-70-NASA Mars Spacecraft Prepare For A Close Flyby
Robert McNaught discovered a comet as it was traveling northward from under the plane of the Earth's orbit. He was observing at the Siding Spring Observatory in New South Wales Australia. This obje…
Published on 5 years, 11 months ago
569-Fossil Ice
Recent findings, published in the Journal of Geophysical Research suggests that there is more water locked in the minerals of nearby asteroids, which are easier to reach than the Moon, than could be …
Published on 5 years, 11 months ago
57E-69-Fly Out Of Spaceport America
SpaceShipTwo will carry 6 passengers and two pilots and be launched from the 18,000 acre SpacePort America in New Mexico
Published on 5 years, 11 months ago
568-Tough Space Rock
At its closest point, a small space rock comes to only 1/3 of Mercury's average distance from the solar surface and receives 9 times the amount of solar energy which heats the planet Mercury to 800F.…
Published on 6 years ago
56E-68-Hubble Finds Three Surprising Dry Exoplanets
Water is essential to life on our planet. Recently, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope was used to study 3 planets orbiting stars similar to our Sun. Astronomers divided the infrared light from these pl…
Published on 6 years ago
567-Close Space Rock
Nine hours after it was discovered a tiny, 4 foot in diameter, space rock streaked less than 4,000 miles above southern Africa as it passed through the cloud of communications satellites which surrou…
Published on 6 years ago
55E-67-NASA Deep Space Network Turns 50
NASA's Deep Space Network is celebrating its 50th birthday. Australia, Spain, and California host its three sites. These facilities are spaced nearly evenly around the world to provide continuous com…
Published on 6 years ago
566-October Fest
October of 2019 was a record breaking month for my team the Catalina Sky Survey during which we discovered 240 Earth approaching asteroids. This diverse collection of space rocks ranged in size from …
Published on 6 years ago
54E-66-Opportunity Celebrates 10 years on Mars
The Opportunity Rover has been joined by, a car sized robot, named Curiosity. So far it has found that ancient Mars could have supported living microbes. You can follow its journey on the NASA Cu…
Published on 6 years ago
565-Ancient Crater
In ancient times, Aboriginal people in southwestern Australia quarried fine grained rock on an ancient hill called Barlangi Rock to make very sharp tools. Dr. Timmons Erickson, a NASA scientist at th…
Published on 6 years ago