Sub-Orbital Space Flights & Satellite Exploration
Here are models of three different Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) mars rovers. The small one is Pathfinder, sent to Mars in 1996. The middle is a model of one of two rovers still working on mars, Spirit and Opportunity. And the largest is a model of the Mars Science Laboratory, a future mars rover which is scheduled to launch in the fall of 2009, arriving on Mars in October 2010. JPL is located in Pasadena California, home of the Rose Bowl and Rose Parade. More at www.kevitivity.com
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From space, the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is scouting out landing sites for nasas next Mars rover. www.jpl.nasa.gov astronomy2009.nasa.gov nasa’sJet Propulsion Laboratory: “Do not go where the path may lead,” wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson. “Go instead where there is no path, and leave a trail.” That could be the motto of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Trailblazing has been the business of JPL since it was established by the California Institute of Technology in the 1930s. America’s first satellite, Explorer 1 which launched in 1958, was created at JPL. In the decades that followed, we sent the first robotic craft to the moon and out across the solar system, reconnoitering all of the planets. Pushing the outer edge of exploration, in fact, is the reason JPL exists as a NASA laboratory. In that spirit, this is an exceptionally busy period for JPL in laying new paths. An exciting step in the search for exoplanets took place recently when we launched Kepler, a spaceborne telescope that will seek out Earth-like planets as they pass in front of other stars. JPL is contributing key technology to two European Space Agency spacecraft to be launched together in April, Herschel and Planck. Later this year we will launch another observatory, the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer. They join our currently operational Spitzer Space Telescope and Galaxy Evolution Explorer astronomical missions. Among our robotic spacecraft arrayed across the solar system, Dawn is using ion propulsion to …
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Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech bit.ly This artist’s concept shows a celestial body about the size of our moon slamming at great speed into a body the size of Mercury. NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope found evidence that a high-speed collision of this sort occurred a few thousand years ago around a young star, called HD 172555, still in the early stages of planet formation. The star is about 100 light-years from Earth. Spitzer detected the signatures of vaporized and melted rock, in addition to …
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Best educational channels: • www.atheism-magazine.com Best Atheist Experience clips & chat: • www.atheism-magazine.com Please subscribe to: • www.YouTube.com • www.YouTube.com Life On Mars: The Mars Science Laboratory (NASA JPL Video in HD Quality) Is Earth unique in the solar system? The only place where life could have taken hold? Or could such an environment have existed at one point on Mars? Where water and key chemical buliding blocks could have come together in a way that could support …
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Mars Science Laboratory – 2009-03-27 This animation demonstrates how the rover will enter, descend and land on the surface of Mars. Mars Exploration Rover Mission: marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov YouTube Play-list: www.youtube.com NASA’s twin robot geologists, the Mars Exploration Rovers, launched toward Mars on June 10 and July 7, 2003, in search of answers about the history of water on Mars. They landed on Mars January 3 and January 24 PST, 2004 (January 4 and January 25 UTC, 2004). Primary among …
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These are video simulations depicting the Mars rover, carrying the Athena science payload, landing on and exploring the Martian surface. LAUNCH * Each Mars Exploration Rover will be launched on a Delta II launch vehicle from Cape Canaveral, Florida. * The Delta II stands about 100 feet tall and the rover is housed in a payload fairing that sits on top of the rocket. The first MER spacecraft launches in the daytime and the second one at night. * The Delta II engines produce more than 140000 …
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Animation of a GIANT impact Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech bit.ly This artist’s concept shows a celestial body about the size of our moon slamming at great speed into a body the size of Mercury. NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope found evidence that a high-speed collision of this sort occurred a few thousand years ago around a young star, called HD 172555, still in the early stages of planet formation. The star is about 100 light-years from Earth. Spitzer detected the signatures of vaporized and …
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Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech bit.ly This artist’s concept shows a celestial body about the size of our moon slamming at great speed into a body the size of Mercury. NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope found evidence that a high-speed collision of this sort occurred a few thousand years ago around a young star, called HD 172555, still in the early stages of planet formation. The star is about 100 light-years from Earth. Spitzer detected the signatures of vaporized and melted rock, in addition to …
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Take a tour of the Space Assembly Facility clean room at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and learn about about the Mars Science Laboratory, NASA’s next mission to mars, scheduled to launch in 2011. … NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Mars Science clean room rover
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stars in the galaxy. Most of the gas and dust is contained in the disk. The halo, or outer shell, is spherical and contains little gas, dust, or star formation. The globular clusters found in the halo are the oldest parts of the galaxy. M13 is one of 150 globular clusters in the halo of our Milky Way Galaxy. This is the last month to get a good look at Saturn in the evening sky. So, dont miss it! The rings are narrowing to nearly edge on, and look dimmer than they did last month! You can …
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