Wired: NASA Spacecraft Will Explore Outer Solar System

The flash nobody saw when Nasa's £49million 'bomb' crashed into the ...

By: TauseefAhmed

It was billed as one of the most ambitious missions in the history of space exploration - two spacecraft smashing into the surface of Moon and creating a six-mile high cloud of dust visible from telescopes on the Earth.Instead there was disappointment for millions as live pictures relayed back from the Moon showed no sign of an impact.Now, however,...

21 days ago

NASA, Microsoft take Web surfers to Mars

By: arslannomercy

Wednesday, November 18, 2009 WASHINGTON: NASA and Microsoft launched an interactive website that allows Web surfers to become Mars explorers.The "Be a Martian" website invites members of the public to help scientists perform such research tasks as improving maps of the red planet, the US space agency and US software giant said."We're at a point in ...

16 days ago

NASA wants help builing robotic rocket-plane to explore Mars

By: AuNews

NASA issued a 'teaming opportunity' to private companies and designers for assistance creating the Aerial Regional-scale Environmental Surveyor [ARES]. The team behind the concept hope that it will be accepted as one NASA's 'Discovery' missions aimed at exploring other worlds in our solar system. Other recent proposals put forward for ...

9 days ago

Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter's LAMP Shedding Light On Permanently ...

By: dustgeer

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), launched on JuneJune 18 of this year, has begun its extensive exploration of the lunar environment and will return more data about the Moon than any previous mission. The Lyman-Alpha Mapping Project (LAMP), developed by Southwest Research InstituteInstitute, is an integral part of the LRO science

13 days ago