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MIAMI, Florida, United States of America – The National Aeronautics and Space Administration uploaded a video featuring a ball-like robot prototype which could prove useful in space exploration. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul Carlos, Video Editing and Uploaded by Vince Alvin Villarin)
SEPTEMBER 11 (Reuters) — NASA released new images of the dwarf planet of Ceres on Tuesday and Wednesday (September 8-9) showing a set of peculiar white spots in one of the planet’s craters. The animation and stills shown by NASA on social media are made up of images from NASA’s Dawn spacecraft and are the closest yet views of the Occator crater. The photos have a resolution of 450 feet (140 meters) per pixel and […]
(Reuters) — A low-key ceremonial change of command took place aboard the International Space Station (ISS) on Saturday (September 5). Veteran Russian cosmonaut Gennady Padalka of Roscosmos handed over the reigns to NASA’s Scott Kelly. “I am ready to relinquish command to Scott Kelly,” Padalka said, as he handed over the microphone to Kelly. “And I assume command of the International Space Station, a great ship and one that not only serves us very well, […]
SEPT. 1 (Reuters) — German scientists want to prove that space travel needn’t cost the earth — as they prepare to send a home-made rover to the moon. The challenge is to place the robot on the moon’s surface and explore at least 500 meters while transmitting high-definition video and images back to Earth, and all of that at a limited cost of 30 million dollars — a snip compared to the cheapest NASA mission […]
MOSCOW, Aug. 26 (PNA/Sputnik) — Star Wars fans couldn’t believe their eyes. NASA’s Curiosity Rover took a photo which appears to have captured an object which looks strikingly similar to a Star Destroyer from the blockbuster series. Freshly unveiled photos taken by NASA’s Curiosity Rover caused media hype, as one of them depicts something that looks like the wreckage of a craft from the Star Wars movies. Many franchise fans thought they recognized an Imperial […]
AUGUST 21 (Reuters) — NASA shed new light on Saturn’s orbiting moon Dione on Thursday (August 20), with pictures taken by the Cassini spacecraft during its latest close approach to the icy world on Monday (August 17). The series of grey, black and white images show Dione’s icy terrain that NASA says shows the surface in “the best resolution ever.” But the latest images aren’t the work of the closest flyover for this particular NASA […]
AUGUST 7 (Reuters) — A satellite positioned a million miles (1,609,344km) from Earth in between the moon and the sun captured new images of the dark side of the moon on July 16. The images were taken by a NASA camera onboard the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite. An animation of the photographs shows the moon passing in front of the earth as it rotates. The moon is seen moving over the Pacific Ocean […]
NASA astronaut Terry Virts explores water tension in microgravity by dissolving an effervescent tablet in a floating ball of water. It’s not the most complex research the crew aboard the International Space Station will carry out. But astronaut Terry Virts saw it as the perfect way to test out their new ultra high resolution camera. An effervescent tablet dissolves inside a ball of water floating in the space station’s microgravity. The result is a mesmerizing […]
JULY 22 (Eagle News) — Scientists using NASA’s powerful Kepler telescope have found a planet beyond the solar system that is a close match to Earth. The planet, which is about 60 percent bigger than Earth, is located about 1,400 light years away in the constellation Cygnus, the scientists told a news conference on Thursday (July 23). While similarly sized planets have been found before, the latest one, known as Kepler-452b, is circling a star […]
JULY 23 (Reuters) — Despite three failed space rocket launches in the past few months, the next crew scheduled to depart for the International Space Station on Tuesday (July 21) said they’re “ready to go”. “We’re very confident in the rocket at this point. We’re very eager to fly,” said American NASA astronaut Kjell Lindgren. “I think from a crew standpoint, the extra two months have given us time for some refresher training and the […]
JULY 21 (Reuters) — A NASA camera on the Deep Space Climate Observatory satellite, nicknamed DSCOVR, has taken sent its first image of the whole sun-lit side of Earth. The high-resolution photo from NASA’s Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC), released on Monday (July 20), was taken on July 6 from a distance of one million miles. NASA said the camera takes 10 separate images using different narrowband filters. The image of Earth uses the […]
JULY 16 (Reuters) — NASA’s New Horizons science team revealed new images of distant Pluto on Wednesday (July 15), revealing methane gas, and topography complete with mountains and water “in great abundance.” A U.S. spacecraft sailed past the tiny planet Pluto in the distant reaches of the solar system on Tuesday (July 15), capping a journey of 3 billion miles (4.88 billion km) that began nine and a half years ago. The NASA New Horizons […]
