Even with the recent triple CME and X class solar flare, overall the sun is still in a funk for cycle 24. Below I have the latest solar cycle progression…
Category: Space
Antimatter belt discovered around Earth
This has been covered widely today, here is a sampling of stories and reference: From the BBC: Antimatter belt around Earth discovered by Pamela craft A thin band of antimatter…
NASA may have found water on Mars
Source: Jet Propulsion Laboratory NASA Spacecraft Data Suggest Water Flowing On Mars PASADENA, Calif. — Observations from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have revealed possible flowing water during the warmest months…
Roll to observe Elenin – STEREO BEHIND looks at a hot topic
Story submitted by Robert Bateman In just a few hours from now, NASA rolls the STEREO BEHIND solar satellite to have a look at Comet Elenin (P/2010 X1), and if…
Volcano found on the Moon's farside
Non-mare silicic volcanism on the lunar farside at Compton–Belkovich Bradley L. Jolliff,Sandra A. Wiseman,Samuel J. Lawrence,Thanh N. Tran,Mark S. Robinson,Hiroyuki Sato,B. Ray Hawke,Frank Scholten,Jürgen Oberst,Harald Hiesinger, Carolyn H. van der…
Curiosity – coming to Mars – maybe
When I was in Washington a couple of weeks ago for ICCC6, I took the family to the National Air and Space Museum on the mall. While everyone was gazing…
Galactic sized bathtub of water found in space
From NASA Jet Propulsion Lab, Pasadena: Astronomers Find Largest, Most Distant Reservoir of Water Two teams of astronomers have discovered the largest and farthest reservoir of water ever detected in…
Giant storm on Saturn has massive lightning activity caught on tape
PASADENA, Calif. – Scientists analyzing data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft now have the first-ever, up-close details of a Saturn storm that is eight times the surface area of Earth. On…
The end of an era
As someone who grew up with the NASA manned space program as a beacon of innovation, strength, and hope for the future, it is a sad day for me, and…
Power grid cut worries flaring over solar flares
This is quite alarming, but as Dr. Leif Svalgaard explained in his email tip to me, “…in this case, probably justified”. Here’s the story from the Independent:
Memorial Day 2011 – America's Finest Hours
On this Memorial Day, 2011 we of course honor and remember the men and women who gave so much to preserve our freedoms in this country. That path is the…
Truly surprising science discovery – free floating planets
This is the last thing I expected, we live in an amazing age of discovery. From the AAAS:
Einstein proven right, again
Stanford’s Gravity Probe B confirms two Einstein theories After 52 years of conceiving, testing and waiting, marked by scientific advances and disappointments, one of Stanford’s and NASA’s longest-running projects comes…
Mars has dramatic carbon dioxide atmospheric shifts
Of note: “Unlike Earth, which has a thick, moist atmosphere that produces a strong greenhouse effect, Mars’ atmosphere is too thin and dry to produce as strong a greenhouse effect…
MESSENGER Sends Back First Image of Mercury from Orbit
And it looks a lot like our moon…below is an artists rendition, and below the “Continue reading…” line is the actual image. From the MESSENGER website: Early this morning, at…
MESSENGER Begins Historic Orbit Around Mercury
NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft successfully achieved orbit around Mercury at approximately 9 p.m. EDT Thursday. This marks the first time a spacecraft has accomplished this engineering and scientific milestone at our…
NASA'S Glory Satellite Fails To Reach Orbit
NASA reports that Glory, a satellite to monitor aerosols failed to reach orbit, apparently from a fairing that didn’t release. See update below on the massive budget overruns for this…
A new galaxy distance record by the Hubble Space Telescope
Hubble sees farther back in time than ever before Above: This image of the Hubble Ultra-Deep Field is a small part of the deepest infrared image ever taken of the…
Worrisome engineering patches
From Slashdot: BJ_Covert_Action writes: “NASA engineers have finally discovered the root cause of the cracks that have been found on space shuttle Discovery’s main external tank. The main tank, one…
Moon revealed to have an Earth-like core
NASA Research Team Reveals Moon Has Earth-Like Core WASHINGTON – State-of-the-art seismological techniques applied to Apollo-era data suggest our moon has a core similar to Earth’s. Uncovering details about the…
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