NASA’s Magnetospheric Mission Passes Major Milestone
Sep 6, 2010 Science
(PhysOrg.com) -- The universe is still an arcane place that scientists know very little about, but a new NASA Solar Terrestrial Probe mission is going to shed light on one especially mysterious event called magnetic reconnection. It occurs when magnetic lines of force cross, cancel, and reconnect...Tags: Kinetic Energy, Magnetic Energy, Magnetic Lines, Magnetospheric Mission, Milestone, Mysterious Event, Nasa, Particle, Probe Mission, Scientists, Universe
ATHLETE rover steps up to long desert trek
Sep 6, 2010 Science
(PhysOrg.com) -- The ATHLETE rover, currently under development at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., is in the Arizona desert this month to participate in NASA's Research and Technology Studies, also known as Desert RATS. The desert tests offer a chance for a NASA-led team of en...Tags: Arizona Desert, Astronauts, Athlete, Desert Rats, Desert Tests, Desert Trek, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, Missions, Nasa, Physorg, Scientists, Technology Studies
Next Mars rover stretches robotic arm
Sep 6, 2010 Science
(PhysOrg.com) -- Curiosity, the Mars Science Laboratory rover that will be on Mars two years from now, has been flexing the robotic arm that spacecraft workers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory attached to the rover body in August 2010.Tags: Curiosity, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Mars Rover, Mars Science, Nasa, Robotic Arm, Science Laboratory, Spacecraft
Missing piece inspires new look at Mars puzzle
Sep 3, 2010 Science
(PhysOrg.com) -- Experiments prompted by a 2008 surprise from NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander suggest that soil examined by NASA's Viking Mars landers in 1976 may have contained carbon-based chemical building blocks of life.Tags: Building Blocks, Experiments, Look At Mars, Mars Landers, Mars Puzzle, Missing Piece, Nasa, Nasa Mars, Phoenix Mars Lander, Soil, Surprise, Viking
SwRI energetic particle instruments selected for Solar Probe Plus mission
Sep 3, 2010 Science
NASA selected two instruments led by Southwest Research Institute, which measure energetic particles for the Solar Probe Plus spacecraft, slated to launch by 2018. This first-ever journey into the Sun's outer atmosphere - called the corona - will seek to answer two of the biggest mysteries in hel...Tags: Corona, Energetic Particle, Energetic Particles, Inner Regions, Journey, Led, Mission Nasa, Mysteries, Nasa, Outer Atmosphere, Particle Instruments, Situ Measurements, Solar Probe, Solar Wind, Southwest Research Institute, Spacecraft, Sun, Two Instruments
Solar Probe Plus mission to plunge directly into Sun’s atmosphere
Sep 2, 2010 Science
NASA has begun development of a mission to visit and study the sun closer than ever before. The unprecedented project, named Solar Probe Plus, is slated to launch no later than 2018.Tags: Atmosphere, Launch, Nasa, Solar Probe, Sun, Unprecedented Project
New NASA HD app for iPad with expanded content available free
Sep 2, 2010 Science
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA has unveiled NASA App HD, a new mobile application designed for the iPad.Tags: Hd, Ipad, Mobile Application, Nasa, Physorg
NASA and NOAA’s newest GOES satellite ready for action
Sep 1, 2010 Science
NASA and NOAA's latest Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, GOES-15, has successfully completed five months of on-orbit testing and has been accepted into service. The satellite has demonstrated operational readiness of its subsystems, spacecraft instruments and communications servi...Tags: Communications Services, Five Months, Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, Geostationary Satellite, Goes Satellite, Nasa, Nasa Satellite, Noaa, Operational Environmental Satellite, Operational Readiness, Orbit, Spacecraft Instruments, Subsystems, Weather Satellites
NIST ultraviolet source helps NASA spacecraft measure the origins of space weather
Sep 1, 2010 Science
With a brilliant, finely tuned spark of ultraviolet (UV) light, a physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology helped NASA scientists successfully position a crucial UV sensor inside a space-borne instrument to observe a "hidden" layer of the Sun where violent space weather can...Tags: Layer Of The Sun, Nasa, Nasa Scientists, Nasa Space, Nasa Spacecraft, National Institute Of Standards, National Institute Of Standards And Technology, Nist, Origins, Physicist, Space Weather, Ultraviolet Light, Ultraviolet Source, Uv Light
Be frank with trapped miners, NASA tells Chile
Aug 31, 2010 Science
A team of NASA experts in Chile to share the US space agency's experience in having men endure extensive periods of isolation told officials Tuesday to be totally frank with the 33 miners trapped underground for months to come.Tags: Chile, Isolation, Nasa, Nasa Experts, Periods, Trapped Miners, Underground, Us Space Agency
