Robotic Exploration Of Venus
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” An old Nasa film showing how Venus could be explored with a group of Robots. The question is that Venus is so inhospitable, are their...
Category: The Planets
Earth Sized Planet Found Orbiting Alpha Centauri
– ” For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – A planet about the mass of the Earth has been found orbiting a star in the Alpha Centauri System, the nearest star system...
The Death Of Venus
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – Why did Earth thrive and our sister planet, Venus, die? Twin planets emerged from the fires of the Sun’s birth but then their paths diverged....
NASA’s Mars Curiosity Rover Update – November 9, 2012
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – A NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover team member gives an update on developments and status of the planetary exploration mission. In particular she talks about...
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...
Curiosity Update – 1st November 2012
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” Here is an official update on Curiosity, Rover Report #13, which discusses the ‘Chemin’ x-ray diffraction analysis carried out earlier in the week. The Martian...
Curiosity’s First Analysis
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – Here are the results of Curiosity’s first mineral analysis of the Martian soil. Interestingly the initial results tell us the soil the rover has driven...
Working With Curiosity’s Chemcam – 26th October 2012
-” For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” Here is the latest update from Curiosity. This week Curiosity delivered its third sample and one analysis has been performed. ChemCam will tell us what the...
Unidentified Object Probably From Curiosity Says Nasa
-“For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – Unidentified objects were spotted by Curiosity almost two week sago. T he object has been determined by Nasa to probably be a piece of plastic from...
More About Jupiter And Its Moons
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – More on Jupiter and its Moons including how Jupiter was originally used to determine the speed of light and the collision of the comet,...
Animation of Juno’s Jupiter Mission
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – Following on from our background on the Juno mission to Jupiter here is an animation of the Juno mission and more information on what...
What Lies Inside Jupiter
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – For four long centuries, since the invention of the telescope, the Jupiter’s vast interior has remained hidden from view due to vast cloud cover....
Curiosity’s First Scoop
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – A Martian soil sample was lifted from the ground on October 7th 2012 by the scoop on the robotic arm of Curiosity. This video...
Hot Facts About Jupiter – Teacher Amy
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – More from the ‘Hot Facts’ girls, this time with interesting facts about the Planet Jupiter. Everything you wanted to know about Jupiter..well almost! Poor...
Curiosity Discovers Old Streambeds
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – NASA’s Curiosity rover mission has found evidence a stream once ran vigorously across the area on Mars where the rover is driving. There is...
A Young Super Jupiter Makes its Mark
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – For the first time scientists were able to directly follow the motion of an exoplanet as it moved from one side of its star...
Mars Opportunity To Complete Extraterrestrial Marathon
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – The recent limelight has been stolen by ‘Curiosity’ and it might be forgotten that there is another rover, ‘Opportunity’, already active on Mars. ‘Opportunity’...
The Signs Of Neptune
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – A look at the planet Neptune and its Moon Triton which has a retrograde orbit. Triton is NOT the ‘only’ moon in the solar...
