When you’re cruising along in low-Earth orbit, running out of supplies is not an option. Fortunately there are Progress vehicles: Russian spacecraft that carry much-needed supplies and equipment to the astronauts aboard the Space Station. The photo above, taken by Expedition 30 crew members, shows the unmanned Progress 46 vehicle approaching the ISS on January [...]
Mars Express Radars Mars
It’s one of those no-brainer ideas: that water once existed on the surface of Mars. All you have to do is LOOK at the planet and you see evidence of something that flowed across the surface. There are washed out valleys, what look like river canyons, and regions that look like the [...]
Chinese scientists have assembled the highest resolution map ever created of the entire Moon and unveiled a series of global Moon images on Monday, Feb. 6. The composite Lunar maps were created from over 700 individual images captured by China’s Chang’e-2 spacecraft and released by the country’s State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for [...]
NASA is looking for more ways to get astronauts to the International Space Station. The space agency put out a call today for commercial space companies to submit bids as part of the latest round of the Commercial Crew Program, now called Commercial Crew Integrated Capability (CCICap). NASA plans to select at least two potential [...]
A mission which helped map the ultraviolet sky and worked to confirm the nature of dark energy is coming to an end. Galaxy Evolution Explorer, or GALEX, was placed in standby mode today after nearly nine years of service and will be decommissioned later this year. With data from the mission, scientists were able to [...]
Astronaut Nicole Stott posted this image on her Twitter account. If you can spot the Great Pyramids at Giza in this small image, you’ve pretty good eyesight! Click the image for a larger version if can’t find them. Astronaut Soichi Noguchi posted an image of different set of pyramids at Dahshur, Egypt, from his stint [...]
Subscribe Today Renew Give a Gift Archives Customer Service Facebook Twitter Newsletter SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS Q BA : What happens if you are exposed to the vacuum of space What caused the Little Ice Age Amazing moonset video taken from space Thanks to astronaut Ron Garan on Google+ I was alerted to some amazing footage of the Moon setting as seen by astronauts on board the International Space Station . I uploaded it to YouTube and added some comments to show you something really cool Set it to high-def and make it full screen Astonishing , isn’t it As the Moon sets , you’re seeing it through thicker and thicker air . The air acts like a lens , bending the light upward . The part of the
The Blue Marble, 2012
There it is folks, our home in space. The Blue Marble. Mother Earth. Whatever you want to call it, it’s home to all the life we actually KNOW about in the cosmos.
This image was taken using an instrument called VIIRS (short for Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer, sensitive to both visible and infrared wavelengths [...]
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The general public, especially reporters, are not generally allowed anywhere near sensitive Russian facilities. Fortunately, a blogger snuck into an Energomash facility and took extensive pictures of where rocket engines are tested.