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October 19, 2009: The Orionid meteor shower peaks this week and it could be a very good show. "Earth is passing through a stream of debris from Halley’s Comet, the source of the Orionids," says Bill Cooke of NASA’s Meteoroid Environment Office. "Flakes of comet dust hitting the atmosphere should give us dozens of meteors […] September 29, 2009: Planning a trip to Mars? Take plenty of shielding. According to sensors on NASA’s ACE (Advanced Composition Explorer) spacecraft, galactic cosmic rays have just hit a Space Age high. "In 2009, cosmic ray intensities have increased 19% beyond anything we’ve seen in the past 50 years," says Richard Mewaldt of Caltech. "The […] WASHINGTON — NASA is charged with seeking out nearly all the asteroids that threaten Earth, but a new federal report says the space agency doesn’t have the money to do the job. Full Story… In a celestial feat any magician would appreciate, Saturn will make its wide but thin ring system disappear from our view Aug. 11. Saturn’s rings, loaded with ice and mud, boulders and tiny moons, is 170,000 miles wide. But the shimmering setup is only about 30 feet thick. The rings harbor 35 trillion-trillion tons of […] August 10, 2009: Splat! There goes another bug on the windshield. Anyone who’s ever driven down a country lane has seen it happen. A fast moving car, a cloud of multiplying insects, and a big disgusting mess.
Full Story… July 20, 2009 Scientists have found evidence that another object has bombarded Jupiter, exactly 15 years after the first impacts by the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9. […] July 17, 2009: NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, has returned its first imagery of the Apollo moon landing sites. The pictures show the Apollo missions’ lunar module descent stages sitting on the moon’s surface, as long shadows from a low sun angle make the modules’ locations evident. Full Story… […] WASHINGTON — NASA will try to head back to the moon this afternoon. NASA will launch probes on a landmark lunar exploration mission to search for water sources and landing sites in anticipation of leading astronauts back to the moon. Full Story… […] |
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