SOFIA, A Unique View of Deep Space – NASA
Information on Earths largest airborne observatory capable of observing features that Earth bound telescopes can’t.
Category: The Earth
NASA Warns Of Potential City Killer Meteors
NASA is warning the US government that our current only defence against a city killer meteorite is to ‘pray’. NASA has so far been unable to obtain funds for a new meteor detecting satellite...
Russian Satellite Collides With Chinese Space Junk
Over fifty years of space exploration has resulted in thousands of pieces of debris. Many thousands of pieces are being monitored as a collision can be fatal or catastrophic. There are plans being made...
UN Prepares For Coming Solar Storms – NASA
Solar storms, although launched 93 million miles away, can damage satellites and knock out power grids here on Earth. This is due to our reliance on sensitive electronics and components. Solar Energetic particles ripple...
Space Junk – The Swiss ‘Janitor Satellite’
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – Space junk is becoming a real problem with NASA tracking around 20,000 pieces of debris. In 2009 two satellites collided and created another 2,000...
Van Allen Probes Reveal Previously Undetected Radiation Belt Around Earth – NASA
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – The Van Allen probes launched in August 2012 to study the Van Allen radiation belt may have discovered a new radiation belt around Earth....
Meteor Explodes Over Russia – 15th February 2013
Giant Meteor Explodes Over Russia. Over 1000 injured.
OSIRIS-REx Targets Near Earth Objects
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – NASA is sending the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft to asteroid 1999 RQ36 to study the evolution of its orbit and to retrieve a sample for return...
Analysis of 2012 Global Temperature – NASA
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – Interesting short video from NASA showing average global temepratures. It Shows that 2012 was the ninth warmest year since records began. The record dates...
Dark Lightning
– “For You TO Enjoy And Share With Friends” – The Fermi Gamma ray telescope captured an outburst of high energy positrons in 2010. That’s just the type of energy that Fermi is supposed...
Sounds From Earth – Earthsong
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – Listen to sounds from our own Earth. Radio waves from Earth at acoustic frequencies are converted to sound waves to give us the ‘Earthsong’....
Why The World Didn’t End Yesterday
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – A video made by Nasa over a week ago explaining why the World did not end yesterday! The Maya calendar has never foretold the...
Earth At Night – Nasa
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – A new view of Earth at night from space as acquired by the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership Satellite. Suomi captured this night time image...
Why Mars Died And The Earth Lived
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – There is much evidence that water once flowed on Mars but what then turned it into the desolate place it is now? This video...
Hurricane Sandy As Seen By The ISS
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – Here is a spectacular view of Hurricane Sandy as seen by the International Space Station. Sandy has become the largest Atlantic Hurricane in diameter on record,...
The Next Space Race – 1
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends”- The United States military is developing the technologies to make outer space the battlefield of the future. We would be naive in thinking that the...
The Radiation Belt Storm Probes
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – Most spacecraft try to avoid the Van Allen Belts, two doughnut-shaped regions around Earth filled with ‘killer electrons. On the 30th August NASA launched...
Red Aurora Australis
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – Aurora Australis the equivalent of the Northern Lights in the Southern Hemisphere. A time lapse capture of the Aurora Australis by Alex Cherney. After...
