Showing posts with label Space. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Space. Show all posts
November 18, 2012
September 23, 2012
September 9, 2012
Planets Align with Pyramids
Planetary alignment that will take place Dec 3, 2012 is dead-on alignment with the Pyramids at Giza.
Planets inline: Mercury Venus Saturn
June 10, 2012
Dr. Bollig's Photo of Saturn
My Boss, Dr. David Bollig, is an amateur astronomer and took this photo of Saturn from his telescope earlier this week. I thought it was pretty cool.
May 26, 2012
History Made As First Private Space Craft Docks With The International Space Station
History made as Elon Musk's SpaceX rocket docks at the International Space Station.
May 13, 2012
Distances in the Universe
My boys and I found this to be incredibly cool!!!
Enjoy.
April 22, 2012
April 17, 2012
November 26, 2011
New Mars Lander Shoots off from Earth Today
Since my boys have joined their Middle School Robotics Club, I've become fascinated with anything robotics related. So today's Mars Lander Launch really caught my eye.
I saw this post on Robots.net that showed a really cool video simulating the Lander and it's mission on Mars. Here's the link: http://robots.net/article/3275.html
Here's an excerpt from the post:
One of the biggest steps in space exploration, the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) named Curiosity was launched today with an Atlas V 541 vehicle and it is now on its way to Mars. The Curiosity rover is similar in size and weight to a small car and it will be the largest spacecraft to ever land on Mars. A very elaborate landing procedure not only enables it to reach safely the Martian surface but also to land in a relatively tight spot whith great geological interest. The mission cost approximately 2.5 billion dollars and it was scheduled for launch in 2009 but various delays forced NASA to abort that goal. The optimum launch window when Mars and Earth are in the relative position that makes the trip as short as possible occurs every two years so two years after 2009 it is now the time for launch. The primary mission will last one Martian year (98 earth weeks) and if the rover is operational it could be further extended for much more. Landing sequence is scheduled for August 2012. Go To Robots.net for more details.
Here's video of what the MSL is going to look like:
I saw this post on Robots.net that showed a really cool video simulating the Lander and it's mission on Mars. Here's the link: http://robots.net/article/3275.html
Here's an excerpt from the post:
One of the biggest steps in space exploration, the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) named Curiosity was launched today with an Atlas V 541 vehicle and it is now on its way to Mars. The Curiosity rover is similar in size and weight to a small car and it will be the largest spacecraft to ever land on Mars. A very elaborate landing procedure not only enables it to reach safely the Martian surface but also to land in a relatively tight spot whith great geological interest. The mission cost approximately 2.5 billion dollars and it was scheduled for launch in 2009 but various delays forced NASA to abort that goal. The optimum launch window when Mars and Earth are in the relative position that makes the trip as short as possible occurs every two years so two years after 2009 it is now the time for launch. The primary mission will last one Martian year (98 earth weeks) and if the rover is operational it could be further extended for much more. Landing sequence is scheduled for August 2012. Go To Robots.net for more details.
Here's video of what the MSL is going to look like:
November 8, 2011
The Complete Story of Comet Elenin & YU55
Apparently we're all going to die tomorrow.
It was nice knowing all of you!
July 31, 2011
Rocket Science
British engineers heard about the gun and were eager to test it on the windshields of their new high speed trains. Arrangements were made, and a gun was sent to the British engineers. When the gun was fired, the engineers stood shocked as the chicken hurled out of the barrel, crashed into the shatterproof shield, smashed it to smithereens, blasted through the control console, snapped the engineer's back-rest in two, and embedded itself in the back wall of the cabin, like an arrow shot from a bow.
The horrified Brits sent NASA the disastrous results of the experiment, along with the designs of the windshield and begged the U.S. scientists for suggestions.
NASA responded with a one-line memo --
"Defrost the chicken." (True Story)
June 19, 2011
Not Your Every Day Shuttle Launch Photo
When the Shuttle Endeavour launched on May 16th on STS-134 mission there were clouds at 5000 feet, and the clouds were at least 500 feet thick. Folks on ground could see the Shuttle for only 22 seconds before it vanished into the clouds. But someone sent me this picture taken above the clouds.
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Last Shuttle "ENDEAVOR" flight from KSC - 5-16-2011. A seriously nifty photo of Monday's shuttle launch, from the best seat in the house...........an F-15E Strike Eagle at 26 thousand feet over the east coast flying protective combat air patrol for the launch.
June 6, 2011
Original Video. Bio Station Alpha on Mars.
David Martines was playing around on Google Mars one day and discovered a building on the red planet!!
Check out the video here:
Check out the video here:
Read more details here:
April 4, 2011
April 3, 2011
Message from Mercury
On March 17, 2011, the MESSENGER spacecraft became the first to orbit Mercury, the solar system's innermost planet. This is its first processed color image since entering Mercury orbit. Larger, denser, and with almost twice the surface gravity of Earth's moon, Mercury still looks moon-like at first glance. But in this view its terrain shows light blue and brown areas near craters and long bright rays of material streaking the surface. The prominent bright ray crater Debussy at the upper right is 80 kilometers (50 miles) in diameter. Terrain toward the bottom of the historic image extends to Mercury's south pole and includes a region not previously imaged from space.
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
March 19, 2011
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