Messenger Pics From Mercury Tricky Navagation, Solar Flare |
SOLAR SAILING: When NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft skimmed past Mercury on Oct. 6th, it did so with record-setting precision. "Our goal was to fly 200 kilometers from the planet's surface, and we missed ...
Posted by Benny Δ ♥ KatyBug on Fri, 10 Oct 2008 07:39:00 PST |
Asteroid Impact 10-7-08, Opportunity Is On The Move Again |
ASTEROID IMPACT: If predictions were correct, asteroid 2008 TC3 hit Earth this morning (Oct. 7th at 0246 UT), exploding in the atmosphere over northern Sudan like a kiloton of TNT and creating a fireb...
Posted by Benny Δ ♥ KatyBug on Tue, 07 Oct 2008 11:29:00 PST |
The Sun Is Not Round?,Sunset And Venus,Green Sky,Solar Prominence |
HOW ROUND IS THE SUN? Scientists using NASA's RHESSI spacecraft have measured the roundness of the sun with unprecedented precision, and they find that it is not a perfect sphere. During years of high...
Posted by Benny Δ ♥ KatyBug on Fri, 03 Oct 2008 07:44:00 PST |
Blank Sol, Aurora Watch |
SPOTLESS SUN: Astronomers who count sunspots have announced that 2008 has become the "blankest year" of the Space Age. Sunspot counts are at a 50-year low, signifying a deep minimum in the 11-year cyc...
Posted by Benny Δ ♥ KatyBug on Wed, 01 Oct 2008 10:20:00 PST |
Solar Prominence, Jules Verne |
GOODBYE, JULES VERNE: Today at 1330 UT, European mission controllers commanded their amazing robot-ship Jules Verne to re-enter Earth's atmosphere over the south Pacific Ocean. The disintegrating spac...
Posted by Benny Δ ♥ KatyBug on Tue, 30 Sep 2008 06:30:00 PST |
Phoeniix Digs Deeper,Lots Of Objects In The Sky,Chinese Spacewalk |
CHINESE SPACE LAUNCH: Taikonauts onboard China's Shenzhou 7 spacecraft are orbiting Earth and preparing for their country's historic first spacewalk. Zhai Zhigang will step into space on Saturday, Sep...
Posted by Benny Δ ♥ KatyBug on Sat, 27 Sep 2008 08:50:00 PST |
Solar Heliosphere in detail |
Sept. 23, 2008: In a briefing today at NASA headquarters, solar physicists announced that the solar wind is losing power.
"The average pressure of the solar wind has dropped more than 20% since the mi...
Posted by Benny Δ ♥ KatyBug on Fri, 26 Sep 2008 04:36:00 PST |
Lots Of News |
CHINESE SPACE LAUNCH: China's Shenzhou 7 spacecraft carrying a 3-man crew lifted off today from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center and is now in Earth orbit. During the upcoming three-day mission, Ch...
Posted by Benny Δ ♥ KatyBug on Fri, 26 Sep 2008 04:29:00 PST |
Autumnal Equinox 15:44 UT (10:44 a.m. CDT) ISS, Jules Verne |
NEW SUNSPOT: A new sunspot is emerging in the sun's northern hemisphere. After several months of almost-relentlessly blank suns, "this is like a breath of fresh plasma," says photographer Pete Lawrenc...
Posted by Benny Δ ♥ KatyBug on Tue, 23 Sep 2008 07:33:00 PST |
I’m way behind, So Here’s Some Solar Stuff. |
SOLAR CINEMA: Japan's Hinode spacecraft is beaming back must-see movies of a solar phenomenon called "polar crown prominences." See them in action in today's story from Science@NASA.
NOT-SO-BLANK SUN:...
Posted by Benny Δ ♥ KatyBug on Wed, 17 Sep 2008 02:49:00 PST |
