02 November 2015
PSO J318.5-22: ‘orphan planet’ may have weather
... at popularising the object, announcing that it’s the sort of place “Where the nightlife never ends!” NASA's fictional JPL’s Exoplanet Travel Bureau put together this poster.
14 December 2015
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover observes sand dunes two stories tall
...), a wheel track is left by the Mars rover exposing underlying material in a shallow sand sheet. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS Previous observations of the Bagnold Dunes with the Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer on NASA's Mars...
06 January 2016
High-Energy X-rays show Andromeda Galaxy in a different light
... light taken by NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer and the swath of sky captured by NuSTAR. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/GSFC With NuSTAR's new view of a large area of Andromeda, Wik and colleagues are aiming to distinguish...
31 January 2016
Rick Tumlinson Publishes Letter to the Washington Space Establishment
... system class clipper ships that never touch the ground to carry people where they want to go. Bring in JPL - who obviously knows how to land on Mars. Aerospace and NASA have years of experience in these realms; we have...
25 April 2016
Near-Earth asteroid population smaller than thought
... information on this research, please see http://arxiv.org/pdf/1604.06328.pdf 1) Source http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov
04 May 2016
Martian minerals point to subglacial volcanoes
... beneath an ice sheet and are labelled as sulfates (blue) and iron oxides (pink). Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/JHUAPL/ASU Using the spacecraft's Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM), the team...