Sub-Orbital Space Flights & Satellite Exploration
Engineers test new software for NASA’s Mars Curiosity mission.
Tags: msl, Mars Science Laboratory, engineering, Curiosity rover
Dr. Jim Garvin investigates Mars like environments in Reykjanes Peninsula, Iceland. Shooting this video, I almost fell into a giant cauldron of boiling mud as I walked out in the lake to get a better shot. Later that day, my right foot broke through the thin crust of mud and into a fumerol. My boot was covered in thick, sulfer smelling boiling mud, but no injuries. It was kinda cool actually.
Tags: Peninsula, NASA, iceland, Mars
Mars Science Laboratory Mission Animation Overview Mars Science Laboratory is a rover that will assess whether Mars ever was, or is still today, an environment able to support microbial life. In other words, its mission is to determine the planet’s “habitability.”
Tags: science, ESA, Mars, chips
An update on the construction of NASA’s next rover to Mars, Curiosity. In this segment, Curiosity gets wheels!
Tags: mission on mars, clean room, msl, Space Exploration
Science & Reason on Facebook: tinyurl.com “The Andromeda Galaxy” with Jane Houston Jones at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. — Please subscribe to Science & Reason: • www.youtube.com • www.youtube.com • www.youtube.com • www.youtube.com — The Andromeda Galaxy (also known as Messier 31, M31, or NGC 224) is a spiral galaxy approximately 2500000 light-years away in the constellation Andromeda. It is the nearest spiral galaxy to our own, the Milky Way. As it is visible as a faint smudge on a moonless night, it is one of the farthest objects visible to the naked eye, and can be seen even from urban areas with binoculars. It is named after the princess Andromeda (Greek: ????????? Androméd?) in Greek mythology. Andromeda is the largest galaxy of the Local Group, which consists of the Andromeda Galaxy, the Milky Way Galaxy, the Triangulum Galaxy, and about 30 other smaller galaxies. Although the largest, Andromeda may not be the most massive, as recent findings suggest that the Milky Way contains more dark matter and may be the most massive in the grouping. The 2006 observations by the Spitzer Space Telescope revealed that M31 contains one trillion stars, several times more than the number of stars in our own galaxy, which is estimated to be c. 200-400 billion. While the 2006 estimates put the mass of the Milky Way to be ~80% of the mass of Andromeda, which is estimated to be 7.1 × 1011 solar masses, a 2009 study concluded that Andromeda and the Milky …
Tags: NASA, stars, m31, way
A compilation of enlargements from official NASA images taken by Spirit Mars Rover of various Panoramas on Mars…the top image is an enlargement of “object(s) of interest”…the lower image has the “object(s) of interest” highlighted for easier identification… description and location are in between images… Music: steve roach “still” from the album immersion: three Copyright Andrew R. Stec 2010
Tags: Aliens, ADULT, dinosaur, Camera
JPL’s camera aboard Hubble has taken some of the space telescope’s most memorable images. The camera will be removed and brought back to Earth during a Hubble servicing mission. James Webb Space Telescope Mission Trailer HD- www.youtube.com The Known Universe HD- www.youtube.com
Tags: HI, def, galaxy, 2011
Segment of the Be A Martian video series, which chronicles people in and outside the Mars’ missions. This 4-part story shows engineers testing a new parachute in the largest wind tunnel on Earth for the Curiosity rover (also known as Mars Science Laboratory), scheduled to launch to Mars in Fall of 2011
Tags: wind, martian, Water, Propulsion
Segment of the Be A Martian video series, which chronicles people in and outside the Mars’ missions. This 4-part story shows engineers testing a new parachute in the largest wind tunnel on Earth for the Curiosity rover (also known as Mars Science Laboratory), scheduled to launch to Mars in Fall of 2011
Tags: Planets, science, opportunity, images
Hubblecast 09: Extreme Star Cluster Bursts Into Life. The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a spectacular image of NGC 3603, a giant nebula hosting one of the most prominent massive young clusters in the Milky Way. This is a splendid location for continued studies of stellar birth in star forming regions. — Subscribe to Science & Reason: • www.YouTube.com • www.YouTube.com • www.YouTube.com — Credit: • ESA/Hubble (M. Kornmesser & LL Christensen) • Narration: Dr. Robert Fosbury • Design: Martin Kornmesser •Web Technical Support: Lars Holm Nielsen, Raquel Yumi Shida • Cinematographer: Peter Rixner (www.perix.de) • Script: Lars Lindberg Christensen, Will Gater • Executive Producers: Raquel Yumi Shida, Lars Lindberg Christensen • Director: Lars Lindberg Christensen Dr. J is a German astronomer at the ESO. His scientific interests are in cosmology, particularly on galaxy evolution and quasars. Dr. J’s real name is Joe Liske and he has a PhD in astronomy. Hubble European Space Agency Information Centre Garching/Munich, Germany • www.eso.org • http • hubblesite.org . Att. Lars Lindberg Christensen, ESO office 011 Karl-Schwarzschild-Str. 2 DE-85748 Garching bei München Germany http .
Tags: ESO, way, Herschel, Into