This beautiful image of the planet Mercury was taken by the Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft on March 18, 2011 (UTC) during it’s orbit around the Solar Systems innermost planet. The MESSENGER is the first spacecraft to orbit Mercury and used the Wide Angle Camera (WAC) of the Mercury Dual Imaging [...]
The Chilean government has sought assistance from NASA as it grapples with the fragile psychology of 33 miners trapped half a mile below the Earth’s surface for months to come. The space agency has experience testing and training crew members for extended periods of isolation in orbit and beyond. NASA spokesman John Yembrick said, “NASA [...]
In order to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Hubble Telescope, Google decided that the best way is to dedicate their doodle on their homepage. The said doodle is of NASA’s Hubble achievement. The Hubble telescope has been of monumental help over the years, giving some of the most amazing shots of space constellations such [...]
The Discovery Shuttle and its team of astronauts landed safely back on Earth on Tuesday after their 6 million-mile journey to the International Space Station that took about 15 days. The landing was delayed by a day due to rain and fog that dissipated just as the sun rose. Mission Control had to try a [...]
NASA’s Terra satellite picks up the volcano’s spewing activities on 16 April a moderate resolution imaging spectroradiometer, or MODIS instrument aboard Terra paints the visible image of ash plume of Mt. Eyjafjallajökull volcano in England and the Netherlands, and now in Germany. Nations are alarmed by the increasing and seemingly endless clouds of ashes that has [...]
Things are about to get worse, and more part of the world is affected by Iceland’s volcanic eruption that happened over a month ago. The ash cloud, it seems is not just covering a part of Europe any more, it creeping towards Canada, Korea and Carribean. The latest image of Iceland Volcano Eruption as seen through Google [...]
Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, America’s most popular astronauts, have dissenting views regarding President Barack Obama’s plans for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which Obama plans to outline on Thursday during a conference at the Kennedy Space Center located in Florida. President Obama’s plan includes the cancellation of a program known as Constellation. [...]
Due to bad weather, the launch of space shuttle Endeavour has been called off. Officials at NASA decided not to launch the shuttle after clouds enveloped Cape Canaveral early Sunday morning. Visibly upset, shuttle commander George Zamka said, “Sometimes you just got to make the call. We understand and we’ll give it another try tomorrow [...]
