NASA’s Lunar Impact Monitoring program spotted a bright impact on the Moon last week: Explosion On The Moon – science20.com Watch the Biggest Explosion Ever Seen on the Moon – Wired Science/Wired.com This NASA ScienceCast video shows the resulting explosion:
The water on the earth and Moon tells a story about their creation and development that still hasn’t been read all the way to the end: Earth-Moon: A Watery “Double-Planet” – The Once and Future Moon.
The latest presentation to the Future In-Space Operations (FISO) study group is now posted in the FISO Working Group Presentations Archive. Both slides (pdf) and audio (mp3) are available for the talk, NASA’s Planetary Protection Policy for Human and Robotic […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s a video of Neil deGrasse Tyson talking about America’s exploration of space at Rice’s 100th commencement:
The International Space Orchestra is described as the world’s first orchestra of space scientists. Blending space exploration and bassoons; planet-poking and bluegrass-playing spacecraft operators – the International Space Orchestra’s members are individuals drawn from NASA Ames Research Center, SETI (Search […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Now that the Curiosity rover is out from behind the Moon, operations are ramping back up. Here is a brief report on upcoming activities: Curiosity Rover Report (May 9, 2013): ‘Spring Break’ Over: Commanding Resumes
The latest Planetary Society Hangout features with Emily Dean who works as an engineer on both the Opportunity and Curiosity rovers. The show is titled a “Sol in the Life of Opportunity”:
The SGAC (Space Generation Advisory Council) has opened a Find an Asteroid project: SGAC gives you the opportunity to take part in an Asteroid Search Campaign. Partnering with the International Astronomical Search Collaboration, and supported by the Minor Planet Center, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
In a multi-part interview with Moonandback, Henry Spencer discussed various aspects of asteroids including their composition, origin, probes, mining, Planetary Resources, and more: Henry Spencer – Asteroids 101 - Moonandback Henry Spencer – The Dawn Mission – Moonandback Henry Spenser […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Planetary Society‘s weekly Hangout yesterday included Dante Lauretta, the principal investigator of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Mission , which will take off in 2016 on a mission to visit the near-Earth carbonaceous asteroid (101955) . The show also included Mike Puzio, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Both the Opportunity and Curiosity rovers are back in action after a month’s rest while communications with Mars was blocked as it passed on the far side of the Sun from the earth: NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover sends pictures after […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A NASA outreach effort with the MAVEN Mars orbiter: NASA Invites Public to Send Names And Messages to Mars WASHINGTON — NASA is inviting members of the public to submit their names and a personal message online for a DVD to […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
NASA JPL releases imagery from the Cassini probe showing a huge hurricane circulating around Saturn’s north pole: NASA Probe Gets Close-Up Views of Large Hurricane on Saturn PASADENA, Calif. – NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has provided scientists the first close-up, visible-light […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The latest discovery by Cassini: NASA Probe Observes Meteors Colliding With Saturn’s Rings PASADENA, Calif. — NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has provided the first direct evidence of small meteoroids breaking into streams of rubble and crashing into Saturn’s rings. These observations […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Mars Stereo View from ‘John Klein’ to Mount Sharp Left and right eyes of the Navigation Camera (Navcam) in NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover took the dozens of images combined into this stereo scene of the rover and its surroundings. The […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here is the latest Planetary Society Hangout: Planetary Society Weekly Hangout: 2014 NASA Budget Update and Planetary Defense Conference Recap – The Planetary Society Casey Dreier discusses the latest 2014 Budget at NASA and what it does to Planetary Science […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Paul Spudis explains that the Apollo lunar samples, seismic station measurements, and other data have not solved some fundamental issues regarding the Moon’s crust, mantle, and impact craters: Thin Crust Moon – The Once and Future Moon.
The band OK Go and a group of other artists went to northern Sweden to observe and incorporate the Aurora Borealis into a music video: OK Go and Collaborators Capture the ‘Sound’ of the Northern Lights – Wired Design/Wired.com. This included […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A Connecticut family had a celestial visitor drop in on them: Meteorite Crashes Through Roof of a House in Connecticut – Universe Today === In Argentina a fireball gave an added flare to a rock concert: A suspected meteor flash […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
On Wednesday of last week’s 2013 IAA Planetary Defense Conference held at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff., the Planetary Society organized a public event. It was hosted by Bill Nye the Science Guy and Planetary Society CEO and included Geoff […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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