The latest Curiosity Rover Report describes the rover obtaining “the first sample ever collected from the interior of a rock on another planet”
The latest Curiosity Rover Report describes the rover obtaining “the first sample ever collected from the interior of a rock on another planet”
Master space artist Don Davis has created a wonderful rendering of the Chelyabinsk meteor fireball. For info on how he made it, see: Chelyabinsk Bolide art by Don Davis – Paradoxically by Paradox Olbers
The latest Planetary Society Hangout discussed the question of how the US budget sequester process will affect
NASA’s programs and goals? How does the budgeting process normally work? How normal (or abnormal) a situation is this for planning budgets and reaching goals at the U.S. Space Program? We answer all of these questions with Dr. Jon Morse, Professor of Physics at RPI and previous Director of Astrophysics at NASA headquarters in Washington, D.C
Theo Pirard of the Space Information Center/Belgium sends me a pointer to the technical presentations given at the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs‘s Scientific and Technical Subcommittee: 2013 50th Session (STSC 2013) going on this month (11-22 February)
Some samples:
Distant infrasound detectors picked up the big sonic boom on meteor fireball that expoded last Friday over Chelyabinsk meteor blast :