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Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2007 |
Lockheed Martin Instrument to Monitor Solar Eruptions on Latest NASA Sun Mission Data from spacecraft instruments will allow scientists to construct the first ever three-dimensional views of the Sun, providing a new perspective on Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs). |
Geotimes August 2006 Carolyn Gramling |
Todd Hoeksema: A Flare for All Things Solar The researcher at the Wilcox Solar Observatory at Stanford University in California helped NASA create a new "roadmap" for future solar physics research. |
AskMen.com |
NASA Studying The Sun The most advanced solar observatory ever built rocketed into space Thursday on a five-year quest to shed light on Earth's star. |
Geotimes July 2005 Lisa Pinsker |
Deep Impact Strikes Back The scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) cheered yesterday as they received confirmation that the Deep Impact probe successfully hit its target, comet Tempel 1, after six months' and hundreds of millions of miles' worth of journey. |
Chemistry World July 28, 2015 Matthew Gunther |
New Horizons sees red over Pluto's atmosphere Pluto's glowering red atmosphere may be harboring a complex concoction of hydrocarbons, according to the latest images from Nasa's New Horizons spacecraft. |
Wired December 2004 Steven Kotler |
Next Stop, Europa The most promising place in the solar system to find life isn't Mars - it's Europa, one of 16 moons orbiting Jupiter. |
Geotimes January 2005 Megan Sever |
Huygens touches down on Titan Grins and thumbs-up signs began a press conference to announce that the Huygens probe had landed successfully on Saturn's largest moon. |
Scientific American July 2005 Mark Alpert |
Feeling the Pinch Voyager 1, now speeding out of the solar system after 28 years in space, is one of the NASA missions facing budget cuts, even though the craft is reporting remarkable discoveries. |
National Defense October 2010 Eric Beidel |
Satellite System Rides the Solar Wind A new system for observing space weather is bringing scientists closer to making accurate forecasts for conditions beyond Earth's atmosphere. |
Chemistry World September 30, 2011 Jon Cartwright |
Messenger Sheds Light on Mercury's Formation NASA's Messenger spacecraft is bringing new understanding to the question of how Mercury formed. The new information looks set to rewrite theories about the birth of the solar system's smallest planet. |
National Defense May 2009 Robert H. Williams |
Carbon Film Enhances Space Probe Diamond like carbon films that were developed at Sandia National Laboratory in Albuquerque, N.M., are being used on NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer to help determine how solar wind interacts with the matter that exists between stars. |
Geotimes May 2006 Kathryn Hansen |
Sunspot Outlook 2012 The future of the sun appears spotty, according to some solar scientists. By incorporating physical observations of the sun into a model, some scientists predict that the sun will boast more sunspots during its next cycle than previous estimates anticipated. |
Geotimes February 2005 |
Touching Titan Little more than an hour after landing, the Huygens probe sent back its first shots of Saturn's largest moon. |
InternetNews July 5, 2005 Roy Mark |
NASA'S Comet Collision Explodes in 'Net Traffic Deep Impact's spectacular collision with the comet Tempel 1 resulted in an explosion of record traffic to the NASA Web site to see how it looked. |
IEEE Spectrum December 2012 Toth & Turyshev |
Finding the Source of the Pioneer Anomaly Thirty years ago, the first spacecraft sent to explore the outer solar system started slowing unexpectedly. Now we finally know what happened |
Scientific American November 2007 Robert Zubrin |
Don't Wreck the Mars Program Devoting all the funding to just one mission would be a mistake. |
Chemistry World September 12, 2008 Hayley Birch |
Q and A: The hunt for water on Mars The Phoenix Lander has been digging for water on Mars since late May 2008. Yet despite the best efforts of the NASA scientists at the controls, the solar-powered robot has hit nothing but ice. |
Popular Mechanics April 2006 Leslie Sabbagh |
Survival of the Oldest Payload Ever: The Stardust Spacecraft Returns to Earth After seven years and 2.9 billion miles, the Stardust spacecraft sent back to Earth the oldest material ever collected. |
Scientific American September 2008 David Appell |
The Sun Will Eventually Engulf Earth--Maybe Researchers debate whether Earth will be swallowed by the sun as it expands into a red giant billions of years from now |
Popular Mechanics September 2006 |
Scientists Are Finding Life In Earth's Coldest, Hottest, Weirdest Places By creating an alternative life chemistry in the lab, astrobiologist Steven Benner hopes to uncover a formula for alien microbes. How five big questions about life on our planet are shaping the search for it on other worlds. |
Geotimes August 2004 Naomi Lubick |
Slow Boat to a Small Planet For the first time in more than three decades, scientists are going to get a close-up view of Mercury, Earth's smallest neighbor and the rocky planet closest to the sun. |
Scientific American April 2005 Mark Alpert |
Strange New World Piercing the haze, Huygens gets a view of Titan's surface. |
National Defense February 2016 Stew Magnuson |
Planetary Defense: A New Hot Market With little fanfare, NASA in January opened up its planetary defense coordination office with a mandate to identify potential chunks of rock hurdling toward Earth and to stop them if possible. |
AskMen.com |
Earth-Like Planet Found Astronomers have finally found a place outside our solar system where there's a firm place to stand -- if only it weren't so broiling hot. |
Geotimes July 2005 McFadden & Schultz |
Collision Course: Deep Impact The Deep Impact project will shed light on some fundamental scientific questions about comets, including what they are made of and how they formed. |
IEEE Spectrum August 2011 Mason Peck |
Exploring Space with Chip-sized Satellites The future of space exploration will include swarms of tiny spacecraft. |
Geotimes January 2006 Kathryn Hansen |
Stardust Landing a Smashing Success Seven years after its launch, NASA's Stardust spacecraft concluded its 4.6-billion-kilometer roundtrip journey to fly through the tail of a comet and collect dust samples, which astronomers hope will offer insight about the formation of our solar system. |
IEEE Spectrum June 2009 Anatoly Zak |
A Russian Return to a Martian Moon Russia hopes to reignite its deep-space program with a mission to Phobos |
Popular Mechanics September 24, 2008 Andrew Moseman |
Weaker Solar Wind Won't Slow Global Warming, May Threaten Astronauts If a spacecraft keeps chugging along for long enough, eventually it may find something startling. |
Scientific American October 10, 2005 Alexander Hellemans |
A Force to Reckon With What applied the brakes on Pioneer 10 and 11? A proposal to analyze telemetry from the early years could literally point toward the correct explanation. |
Geotimes November 2004 Naomi Lubick |
Genesis Crashes with Pieces of the Sun The world watched last September as the spacecraft Genesis, launched in 1998, returned to Earth with a crash-landing on Utah's desert floor. |
Fast Company April 2010 Damian Joseph |
What's Next: Solar Flares In February, NASA launched a satellite to measure solar activity. The goal: to one day predict the solar system's weather. |
Smithsonian December 2006 Eric Jaffe |
Clues from a Comet The first mission to collect space matter from beyond the moon offers insights into the solar system's creation. |
Popular Mechanics November 13, 2009 Jeremy Jacquot |
NASA Confirms There is Water on the Moon--But Where Did It Come From? By obtaining core samples like the ice cores collected by scientists in the Antarctic, it will be possible for scientists to study the climatic record of the moon and draw comparisons with the Earth's. |
Geotimes July 2004 Jay Chapman |
Sliding into Saturn Late Wednesday night, the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft silently slipped through the outermost rings of Saturn and entered into orbit. By early Thursday morning, Cassini began transmitting strikingly elegant close-up images of Saturn's rings. |
IEEE Spectrum May 2008 Barry E. DiGregorio |
Scientist Sells the Electric Sail for Space Propulsion Whisper-thin charged wires form a low-power sail for the solar wind. |
Popular Mechanics March 2007 Jennifer Bogo |
NASA Mission Statement Q&A: Eyes on Earth Interview with a professor involved in a study to find out how Earth scientists view NASA's shifting priorities and how it may affect the study of the planet. |
Chemistry World July 2009 Ned Stafford |
Hoisting the solar sail Flying through space by catching sunlight on ultra-thin sails could revolutionize space travel - and the idea could soon take off. |
Geotimes December 2005 Kathryn Hansen |
Sun Fuels Climate Change The recipe for global warming has changed, according to a new statistical analysis of solar output. The sun may be increasing its output and contributing to global warming more than previously thought. |
Popular Mechanics May 27, 2008 Joe Pappalardo |
Phoenix Lander Doesn't Crash, Snaps Pix of Mars (With Gallery!) NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander successfully touched down on Sunday night in an unexplored region near the Martian north pole. |
Geotimes December 2004 |
A Saturnian One-Two Punch: Flybys of Titan and Dione On Monday, the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft flew by Titan only 1,200 kilometers above the moon's surface. It was the second such flyby of Titan, Saturn's largest moon, since the spacecraft began orbiting Saturn on June 30. |
Popular Mechanics September 24, 2009 Joe Pappalardo |
Water Found on Moon These images show a very young lunar crater on the side of the moon that faces away from Earth, as viewed by NASA's Moon Mineralogy Mapper on the Indian Space Research Organization's Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft. |
Geotimes October 2005 Kathryn Hansen |
New Flare for Space Weather Prediction Solar flares are not uncommon, and the potential devastation to earth-bound technology and to astronauts is driving researchers to improve existing prediction capabilities. |
Chemistry World July 3, 2015 Rebecca Trager |
New Horizons detects methane on Pluto The infrared spectrometer on board NASA's Pluto-bound New Horizons spacecraft has detected frozen methane on the dwarf planet's surface. |
Chemistry World November 20, 2013 Emma Stoye |
NASA probe sets off for Mars NASA's latest Mars mission -- the Maven (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN) orbiter -- has begun its 10-month journey to the red planet after its successful launch this week from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, US. |
Geotimes January 2005 Sara Pratt |
Frozen Volcanism on Titan In late October, the synthetic aperture radar on the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft penetrated Titan's atmosphere of organic smog and captured images of the surface, revealing features that resemble lava domes and lava flows. |
Popular Mechanics March 3, 2008 Brian Lisi |
Satellite Snaps Multiple Avalanches on Northern Cliffs of Mars NASA's long observation of the Red Planet has rarely sent home as stunning an in-progress geological change as this: not one, but four avalanches tumbling from the Martian north pole. |
Geotimes September 2004 Sara Pratt |
Solar Storms Strip Water Off Mars For the first time, scientists have observed a solar superstorm with an array of spacecraft scattered throughout the solar system providing data that may help to explain the disappearance of water from Mars. |
Wired December 2004 Brendan I. Koerner |
NASA's Germbuster A cell biologist at the College of Charleston in South Carolina, Noonan chairs this committee charged with keeping future spacecraft from contaminating distant worlds and vice-versa. |
Popular Mechanics February 6, 2008 Joe Pappalardo |
Sun Stays Sluggish as Weathermen Fight for Anti-Ice Age Funding With a debate over implications on climate change at stake, solar researchers in Canada have been finding new lows in magnetic field outputs from the sun. |