Guest post by David Middleton From the cooler than schist files… NEWS | NOVEMBER 18, 2019The First Global Geologic Map of Titan Completed The first map showing the global geology…
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With Mars methane mystery unsolved, Curiosity serves scientists a new one: Oxygen
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center For the first time in the history of space exploration, scientists have measured the seasonal changes in the gases that fill the air directly above the…
This Week in NASA History: First Launch of Saturn V – Nov. 9, 1967
From NASA Back to Gallery This week in 1967, the Apollo 4 mission launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. The mission marked the first launch of the Saturn V rocket.…
NASA’s TESS Presents Panorama of Southern Sky
From NASA Nov. 5, 2019 NASA’s TESS Presents Panorama of Southern Sky The glow of the Milky Way — our galaxy seen edgewise — arcs across a sea of stars…
The Moon and Mercury May Have Thick Ice Deposits
From NASA Earth’s Moon and Mercury, the closest planet to the Sun, may contain significantly more water ice than previously thought, according to a new analysis of data from NASA’s…
“Other ‘First Words’ on the Moon”
Guest Apollo program nostalgia by David Middleton For my fellow WUWT space program groupies… We’d better have something appropriate to say. What are you guys gonna say? If you had…
Moon Rock Mineralogy: Yes, the Apollo missions were real, QEDirt
Guest geological story-telling by David Middleton One of the coolest things about WUWT is the enthusiasm that Anthony and many other regulars here have for the space program. As a…
NASA “Surprised”: Undetected City Killer Asteroid Just Whizzed By Earth
Guest essay by Eric Worrall This asteroid, estimated between 187 to 426ft wide and 55,000MPH, passing just 45,000 miles from Earth, wasn’t detected until a few days ago. ‘It snuck…
Commercial Space Ride Secured for NASA’s New Air Pollution Sensor
From NASA July 22, 2019 RELEASE 19-050 NASA’s Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO) instrument will provide near-real-time North American air quality information that will be available to the public.…
MUST SEE – Restored historic Apollo 11 “small step for man” video – like you’ve never seen it. #MoonLanding50
Live video broadcast by TV networks in 1969 was not full resolution – it was a copy done by a camera pointed at a NASA TV monitor. This video is…
First Data from NASA’s OCO-3 Mission: ‘CO2, I See You’
From NASA Global Climate Change Features | July 12, 2019 NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory-3 (OCO-3), the agency’s newest carbon dioxide-measuring mission to launch into space, has seen the light. From…
Ok, we got time for dat
From Eclectic Method Published on Jul 15, 2019 This week is the 50th Anniversary of NASA’s Apollo 11 mission to the moon. I’ve turned a bunch of NASA’s footage into…
NASA Adds Events to Celebration of 50th Anniversary of Historic Moon Landing
Sorry, a day late, but still lots of information.~ctm From NASA July 16, 2019 MEDIA ADVISORY M19-070 Learn more about the history behind, and future in front of, the Apollo…
Hubble Peers at Galactic Cherry Blossoms
July 12, 2019 From NASA The galaxy NGC 1156 resembles a delicate cherry blossom tree flowering in springtime in this Hubble image. The many bright “blooms” within the galaxy are…
NASA Funds Demo of 3D-Printed Spacecraft Parts Made, Assembled in Orbit
From NASA NASA has awarded a $73.7 million contract to Made In Space, Inc. of Mountain View, California, to demonstrate the ability of a small spacecraft, called Archinaut One, to…
50th Anniversary of Apollo 11 – It’s Yesterday Once More
I grew up with the space program. My first firm memory about it was staying inside during fourth grade recess to listen to Alan Shepard’s suborbital flight on a nice…
V’GER
From NASA July 8, 2019 A New Plan for Keeping NASA’s Oldest Explorers Going This artist’s concept depicts one of NASA’s Voyager spacecraft, including the location of the cosmic ray…
Mars 2020 Rover Gets a Super Instrument
From NASA Larger view Engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, have installed the SuperCam Mast Unit onto the Mars 2020 rover. The instrument’s camera, laser and spectrometers…
Successful Orion Test Brings NASA Closer to Moon, Mars Missions
From NASA July 2, 2019 RELEASE 19-054 Ascent Abort-2 successfully launched at 7 a.m. EDT from Space Launch Complex 46 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida Credits: NASA…
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