Last Video Footage From Grail
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends”- Three days prior to its planned impact on a lunar mountain, mission controllers activated the camera aboard one of NASA’s GRAIL twins to take some...
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Kepler Discovers Multiple Planets Orbiting Twin Stars
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – The Kepler Mission is specifically designed to survey a portion of our region of the Milky Way galaxy to discover Earth-size planets in or...
Volunteers Wanted For One Way Trip To Mars
– For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – Here is information on The Netherlands-based nonprofit Mars One, which hopes to put the first boots on the Red Planet in 2023, has just released its...
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...
The Monster At The Centre Of The Galaxy
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – A discussion of the black holes at the centre of galaxies. The Black Hole at the centre of our galaxy is a million times...
NASA Update – 5th January 2013
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – The latest update from NASA with information on the development and testing of the new Space Launch System and other development programmes. Also some...
New Horizons Mission To Pluto
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – An introduction to the New Horizon mission to Pluto which hopes to encounter the dwarf planet in 2015. The spacecraft left Earth at the greatest-ever...
Fermi Searches For Pulsars
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – Useful information on thew Fermi x-ray telescope and pulsars. A pulsar is a type of neutron star that emits electromagnetic energy at periodic intervals. A...
Guns In Space – Minutephysics
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – Interesting information on gravity, mass and Newton and Einsteins Laws. A lot of hypothetical questions are asked which make you think.
Saturns Mysterious Moons
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – Interesting information on the Cassini probe, Saturn and its moons. The Cassini probe entered the orbit of Saturn in 2004. It then began to compile...
Mars In 3D
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – A superb aerial 3D view of the Martian landscape from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Viewing these images it is hard to imagine that once mighty...
Curiosity’s SAM
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – Some information on SAM, the sample analysis unit on Curiosity. Tucked inside the Curiosity rover is a miniature chemistry laboratory designed to unlock the secrets...
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’....
What Happened To Beagle 2
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – Beagle 2 was supposed to have landed on the Martian surface on December 25th 2003 but all contact was lost and whatever happened to...
An Introduction To TDRS – NASA Communications
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – An introduction to TDRS, the NASA communications constellation of satellites. As a vital information pipeline for space-based research and exploration ambitions, the TDRS constellation...
Curiosity Update – 21st December 2012
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – A NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover team member, Colette Lohr, gives an update on developments and status of the planetary exploration mission as of the...
Sun Spot Cycles
– “For You To Enjoy And Share With Friends” – Interesting introduction to the Sun Spot Cycle which is expected to peak in the next year or so. Sun Spots are caused by intense...
