ScienceDaily: Space & Time News
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- NASA's Space Launch System celebrates a year of powering forward
- New RBSP instrument telemetry provides 'textbook' excitement
- Mars Rover Curiosity Arm Tests Nearly Complete
- A celestial witch’s broom? A new view of the Pencil Nebula
- Dark energy is real, say astronomers
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Posted: 12 Sep 2012 04:17 PM PDT
NASA
is powering ahead toward new destinations in the solar system. This
week marks one year of progress since the formation of the Space Launch
System (SLS), the United States' next step in human exploration efforts.
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Posted: 12 Sep 2012 04:14 PM PDT
In
the very early hours of Sept. 1 -- just under two days since the 4:05
a.m. EDT launch of NASA's Radiation Belt Storm Probes -- the team at the
RBSP Mission Operations Center (MOC) controlling spacecraft A at the
Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md. was about to
power up that spacecraft's Relativistic Electron Proton Telescope
(REPT-A), one of the instruments that comprise the Energetic Particle,
Composition, and Thermal Plasma Suite (ECT).
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Posted: 12 Sep 2012 04:12 PM PDT
NASA's
Mars Curiosity team has almost finished robotic arm tests in
preparation for the rover to touch and examine its first Martian rock.
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Posted: 12 Sep 2012 05:48 AM PDT
The
Pencil Nebula is pictured in a new image from ESO’s La Silla
Observatory in Chile. This peculiar cloud of glowing gas is part of a
huge ring of wreckage left over after a supernova explosion that took
place about 11,000 years ago.
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Posted: 12 Sep 2012 05:47 AM PDT
Dark
energy, a mysterious substance thought to be speeding up the expansion
of the Universe is really there, according to a team of astronomers.
After a two-year study, scientists conclude that the likelihood of its
existence stands at 99.996 per cent.
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