Catch the Orionid meteor shower this weekend
2012.10.19.18:29
Star gazers will want to be looking upward this weekend: The Orionid meteor shower is one of the best meteor showers of the year and should not be missed. According to NASA’s website: “Earth will pass through a stream of debris from Halley’s Comet, (the) source of the annual Orionid meteor shower. Forecasters expect 25 meteors per hour when the shower peaks on Oct. 21.” The best part of this cosmic display: No telescope required—but you may need an alarm clock. According to L.A.’s Griffith Observatory, the brightest displays will fall between 11 p.m. Saturday and 5:40 a.m. Sunday, Pacific time.
Snow on Mars: NASA Spacecraft Spots ‘Dry Ice’ Snowflakes
2012.09.17.05:03
Researchers have calculated that carbon dioxide snow particles on Mars are roughly the size of a human red blood cell. Martian snow is depicted in this artist’s rendering as a mist or fog that eventually settles. A spacecraft orbiting Mars has detected carbon dioxide snow falling on the Red Planet, making Mars the only body in the solar system known to host this weird weather phenomenon.
Android Phones Will Power NASA’s New Fleet of Mini-Satellites
2012.08.23.18:00
Hoping to inject new life into low-cost space exploration, NASA’s ‘PhoneSat’ program will launch a series of Google Nexus One–controlled mini-satellites into space later this year.
NASA unveils InSight mission to study Mars’s formation
2012.08.21.02:45
Scheduled for 2016, the Discovery-class mission will involve putting instruments on the Martian surface to work out whether its core is solid or liquid, and why it doesn’t have shifting tectonic plates like Earth does.
Curiosity Mars rover blasts first rock with laser
2012.08.20.08.14
A test run of the ChemCam laser on Sunday saw a fist-sized rock called Coronation blasted with 30 laser pulses, so Curiosity can work out the composition of the rock’s surface
Get ready to view the last Venus transit for another 115 years
2012.06.04.10:08
Wally Bahny rounds up tips for viewing the transit of Venus across the sun on June 5-6. If you missed the 2004 show, this is your last chance for another 115 years!
NASA Discovers Magnetic “Foam” on the Border of the Solar System
2011.06.13.12:28
You would never know it from Earth, but the entire Solar System is encapsulated in a massive magnetic field produced by the sun. The border between that magnetic field and interstellar space is called the heliopause.
Lunar, Solar Eclipses in June and July
2011.05.31.13:10
Over the next month, the world will experience three eclipses: two partial solar eclipses a month apart and one total lunar eclipse exactly in between, and it all starts with a so-called “midnight” eclipse of the sun.
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