Mars Opportunity rover ends 15-year mission
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES (FEBRUARY 13, 2019) (NASA) - Scientists announced Wednesday (February 13) that the Mars Opportunity Rover has…
Category: Space
Super Blood Wolf Moon wows stargazers
All eyes were on the skies Sunday evening, when the full lunar eclipse bathed the moon in a reddish-orange glow.…
NASA’s InSight Takes Its First Selfie
NASA's InSight lander isn't camera-shy. The spacecraft used a camera on its robotic arm to take its first selfie —…
NASA celebrates InSight’s landing on Mars for unprecedented seismic mission
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES (NOVEMBER 26, 2018) (NASA) - NASA's Mars science lander InSight touched down safely on the surface…
MARS InSight Mission Landing
https://youtu.be/Y0yOTanzx-s The entry, descent, and landing (EDL) begins when the spacecraft reaches the Martian atmosphere, about 80 miles (about 128…
NASA spacecraft nears Red Planet on mission to detect ‘marsquakes’
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES (NOVEMBER 25, 2018) (NASA) - NASA's first robotic lander designed to study the deep interior of…
NASA teams ‘excited, nervous’ for Mars landing
Mars InSight project manager Tom Hoffman of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory says he's "completely excited and completely nervous at the…
NASA discovers three things that impact Earth’s spin
There are three reasons why our planet wobbles: glacial rebound, melting of ice, and mantle convection, according to a study…
Fireball flashes across Perth sky
JANDAKOT, PERTH, AUSTRALIA (AUGUST 28, 2018) (BAGUS SUGIONO) - Residents captured footage of a fireball lighting up the sky above…
NASA launches first ever solar probe to ‘touch the sun’
CAPE CANAVERAL, FLORIDA, UNITED STATES (AUGUST 12, 2018) (NASA TV) - NASA on Sunday (August 12) launched a probe that…