NASA's Martian exploration robot Opportunity, which has been on the red planet for seven years, has new capabilities to make its own choices about whether to make additional observations of the rocks it finds upon arrival at a new location.
Saturn's spectacular rings are made up mostly of icy water. This conclusion has been reached from data sent by the Cassini probe, the result of collaboration between NASA's Ames Center, the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Italian Space Agency (ASI).
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) presents today, during the Earth and Space Congress 2010, the future rovers that will explore Mars. These are giant spheres without wheels called 'Mars Tumbleweed'.
NASA has just launched a multipurpose satellite into orbit that will not only improve weather forecasts, but will also be used as a communications relay and aid in search and rescue operations.
NASA's 'Mini-SAR' radar, installed on the Indian satellite Chandrayaan-1, has detected more than 40 small lunar craters 1.6 to 15 kilometers in size, all filled with ice. "Although the total amount of ice depends on its thickness in each crater, it is estimated that there could be at least 600 million metric tons of frozen water on the satellite," NASA said in a statement.
NASA will launch next week an observatory whose objective will be to transmit every 10 seconds a photograph of the Sun with a definition and color comparable to an IMAX film. The SDO telescope will thus help to unravel the main mysteries of our star and to forecast the intensity of the next solar cycles.
The president of the United States, Barack Obama, will suspend in the draft of the state budget for 2011 the financing to send a new mission to the moon. The text, which will be made public today, does not foresee funds for the continuation of NASA's Constellation program, in which around 9 billion dollars have already been invested.
Space debris has increased by almost 20 percent in 2009 compared to the levels of the previous year, and orbiting the Earth there are about 15,090 debris, from rockets and shuttles to the remains of these devices, according to the latest quarterly report. from NASA's Orbital Debris Program Office.
Danni Büchner is invited to Sam Dylan's Halloween party. But the "Goodbye Germany" emigrant has no desire for many other party guests. And find clear words.
