March 2006 - Posts
NASA is offering the public a front row seat for the total solar eclipse on Wednesday, March 29 thanks to a partnership with the University of California at Berkeley and San Francisco s Exploratorium. [ Whole article here. ] An eclipse is an awesome event
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Friday, March 24, 2006 10:14:00 PM Falcon 1 rocket on the launchpad. Image credit: SpaceX Fri, 24 Mar 2006 - The maiden voyage of SpaceX's Falcon 1 rocket started well, but then went sour moments after launch. Onboard cameras, broadcast live to the Internet
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Palmtop Nuclear Fusion Device Invented By Michael Schirber LiveScience Staff Writer posted: 27 April 2005 01:00 pm ET The nuclear reaction that powers the Sun has been reproduced in a pocket-sized device, scientists announced today. I've seen this item
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8 Worlds Where Life Might Exist Today 6:14 AM | SPACE.com We can now list eight worlds (including Earth) in a nine-planet solar system that are possible places for life. SpaceX Pushes Falcon 1 Rocket Debut to Friday Today 9:20 AM | SPACE.com After three
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Yesterday 9:48 PM | Universe Today Partial solar eclipse across the United States on May 10, 1994. Image credit: Sky & Telescope Click to enlarge Tue, 21 Mar 2006 - Those lucky enough to live in parts of Africa, Turkey and Central Asia will experience
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Today 1:15 PM | SPACE.com Don Davis ( donaldedavis.com ) is the artist most responsible for making space colonies look like a good place to live. He won an Emmy for his work on Carl Sagan's TV series Cosmos. Today he is the leading astronomical artist
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Yesterday 7:53 PM | Universe Today The sun is a major source of radiation for life on Earth. Image credit: NASA/ESA/SOHO. Click to enlarge Mon, 20 Mar 2006 - Space travel has its dangers. One of the biggest risks will come from the various types of radiation
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Yesterday 9:07 PM | Universe Today Artist's illustration of the northern starry river. Image credit: Caltech Click to enlarge Thu, 16 Mar 2006 - Astronomers have found a narrow stream of stars extending across the sky for about 45 degrees - 90 times the
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Yesterday 6:27 PM | Universe Today Buzz Aldrin deploys a seismometer at the moon surface. Image credit: NASA Click to enlarge Thu, 16 Mar 2006 - During the Apollo Moon missions - between 1969 and 1972 - NASA astronauts placed seismometers at their landing
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Yesterday 9:29 PM | Universe Today Artist's view of an X-ray pulsar as seen by Integral. Image credit: NASA Click to enlarge Thu, 16 Mar 2006 - Like the shambling monsters in a zombie movie, the corpses of dead stars might have a little fight left in
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Indo-US Space Accord Paves Way For Future Joint Exploration Yesterday 7:17 PM | SpaceDaily Express Mumbai, India (SPX) Mar 16, 2006 - The Indo-US deal on space research and application would usher in an era of joint exploration between the space agencies
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Yesterday 9:18 PM | Universe Today Artist illustration of a super Earth. Image credit: CfA. Click to enlarge . Mon, 13 Mar 2006 - Nearly all the extrasolar planets discovered have been Jupiter-sized or larger. But astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian
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Yesterday 9:26 PM | Universe Today Flight through Mariner Valley. Image credit: NASA/JPL. Click to enlarge . Mon, 13 Mar 2006 - NASA researchers have created a virtual fly through of Valles Marineris on Mars. This video was created by stitching together
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Yesterday 9:41 PM | Universe Today Illustration of the "conveyor belt" on the Sun. Image credit: NASA. Click to enlarge . Mon, 13 Mar 2006 - We've now reached the Sun's solar minimum; there's not a sunspot anywhere across the surface of our closest star.
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http://www.google.com/mars/ has a great topo map of Mars. If you ever wanted to see what it might look like with water, imagine the 0km mark as sea level. I believe, though have not confirmed, that the 0km mark is a mean for measuring mass above/below
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Yesterday 9:44 PM | Universe Today Plumes of icy material extend above the polar region of Enceladus. Image credit: NASA/JPL/SSI Click to enlarge Thu, 09 Mar 2006 - Scientists have discovered geysers of liquid water streaming off Enceladus, one of Saturn's
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Yesterday 9:40 PM | Universe Today The Sun. Image credit: NASA/ESA Click to enlarge Thu, 09 Mar 2006 - NASA researchers have developed a technique that allows them to look right through the Sun to see what's happening on the other side. The Solar and
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Yesterday 9:04 PM | Universe Today A RADARSAT map of Antarctica. Image credit: AMM/SVS/NASA/CSA Click to enlarge Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
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Yesterday 9:31 PM | Universe Today Antarctica. Image credit: Ben Holt, Sr. Click to enlarge Tue, 07 Mar 2006 - Researchers have completed the first comprehensive survey of Antarctic ice mass; not surprisingly, ice loss is on the rise - mostly from the
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Yesterday 9:58 PM | Universe Today The current understanding of a pulsar. Image credit: Jodrell Bank Observatory. Click to enlarge Tue, 07 Mar 2006 - Astronomers have discovered a very unusual pulsar that seems to switch off from time to time. It looks
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