The Floodwaters of Mars
Over ten years ago, on 14 January 2004, Mars Express took its very first images of Mars in colour and in 3D. To mark the occasion, the team produced a fly-through movie of the ancient...
Monthly Archive: May 2014
How Gyroscopes Guide Rockets
A look at how gyroscopes were used in the German V2 rockets and how this technology was then used in the Saturn 5 rocket that was used for putting man on the moon.
NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope
NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope helps solve a mystery. The fading light of a flaring young star has shed light on a puzzle involving crystals and comets.
Astronomy for Beginners
In this introductory video we share some tips and insight into the steps you need to take to get into stargazing. We cover: establishing a location, useful beginner accessories, observing tips, using binoculars, and...
Top Telescope Tips
This video shows some great tips to help you get the best from your telescope and enhance your enjoyment of the night sky.
Russia Says Astronauts Can Launch Into Space With Trampolines!
The USA’s reliance on Russia to put astronauts into space after the retirement of the Shuttle has made the issue a political pawn in the wake of the current east west crisis.
The Future of Space Travel – Boeing
Boeing is known for making airplanes, both commercial and fighter, but they actually have a long history in space. They’ve been a contractor for NASA on every manned space mission ever flown. A new...
Jupiter’s Hot Spots – NASA
Movies recorded by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft reveal that hot spots are not just local weather phenomena, but are in fact linked to much larger-scale atmospheric structures called Rossby waves.
Space Sounds – NASA
In space no one can hear you scream. Mabe not strictly true. NASA Space Sounds – Information about the recordings and sample sounds of the planets, moons and rings of planets in our Solar...
We Live in a Virtual Reality – NASA Physicist Tom Campbell
NASA Physicist Tom Campbell says that more feasible theory than string theory and other theories of the Universe is that we live in a virtual reality Universe. A great video on a new theory...
The Orion Spacecraft & SLS
Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (MPCV) is a planned beyond-low-Earth-orbit manned spacecraft that is being built by Lockheed Martin for NASA and Astrium for European Space Agency for crewed missions to the Moon, asteroids and...
3 Days in 1 Minute: Stacking the MMS Spacecraft – NASA
The Magnetospheric Multiscale, or MMS, will study how the sun and the Earth’s magnetic fields connect and disconnect, an explosive process that can accelerate particles through space to nearly the speed of light. This...
NASA’s Path to Mars
This video gives you an inside look at NASA’s next steps in deep space exploration — from the space station, to an asteroid and on to the human exploration of Mars.
