In a December 20th, 2006 press conference in Japan, data, images, and videos of the Sun’s atmosphere from the Hinode X-Ray Telescope (XRT) were released. The Sun’s corona (or Solar Corona) reaches temperatures of over one million degrees and scientists ...
Everybody’s an astronaut! That was the intention of the company Blue Origin, who designed and built the vertical take-off, vertical landing (VTOVL) system launch vehicle “New Shepard”. Blue Origin was created in 2000 by the American billionaire Jeffrey Bezos who ...
Based on 14 frames captured when the unmanned Cassini spacecraft encountered Hyperion in early 2006, this first ever video shows the small, Saturn moon (280 km /174 mi. across) over a 12 hr period on flyby about 1 million km ...
On December 27th, 2006, the COROT (COnvection ROtation and Planetary Transits) space-based telescope was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome atop a Soyuz 2-1B launch vehicle. The COROT mission is run by the CNES (French Space Agency) with Austria, Belgium, Brazil, ...
How often do we see all of those posed in one photograph? From space, it’s not as hard to assemble such a delegation. This photograph of part of the Middle East was a view from the window of the Space ...
Aurora Borealis was photographed by an STS-116 crew member aboard Space Shuttle Discovery this week. City lights and stars are also visible in this image from space because of the long camera exposure. Aurora Borealis was the Latin name given ...
Following postponement of the earlier launch of the Space Shuttle Discovery days ago due to local cloudy conditions, the seven member astronaut crew of STS mission 116 blasted off from Kennedy Space Center at 8:47 p.m. EST Saturday night December ...
Mars just doesn’t seem to get out of the news these days. Following the mysterious disappearance of NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor late last month and some spectacular 3D imagery of the Red Planet, NASA announced on Wednesday that it discovered ...
This 3D stereo view composed of two high resolution images of the “Victoria Crater” on Mars was photographed by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The Victoria Crater, approximately 750 m wide and about 70 m deep, was discovered by NASA’s Rover ...
Hey, you down there in San Diego! This aerial photograph of greater San Diego was snapped from space from a window of the Space Shuttle Atlantis on STS mission 115 to the ISS in September, 2006. The view spans ~50 ...