Like a tourist waiting for just the right lighting to snap a favorite shot during a stay at the Grand Canyon, NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has used a low sun angle for a memorable view of a large Martian crater. The resulting view catches a shadow of the rover in the foreground and [...]
Decades of rigorous research, testing and development performed in the Entry Systems and Technology Division at NASA’s Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., has garnered Ames’ thermal protection engineers the respect of not just other government agencies, but also commercial entities. “For four decades, whenever the U.S. government or aerospace industry needed thermal protection [...]
By Rob Waugh PUBLISHED: 17:18 GMT, 24 May 2012 | UPDATED: 17:18 GMT, 24 May 2012 Molecules containing large chains of carbon and hydrogen – the building blocks of all life on Earth – are one of the main ‘targets’ of Man’s missions to Mars, and key to understanding if life ever existed on our [...]
Recently, a study was published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society proposing planets simply adrift in space may be something of a common phenomenon. Aptly titled “Nomads of the Galaxy,” the authors proposed an upper limit to the number of nomad planets that might exist in the Milky Way Galaxy: 100,000 [...]
New research from North Carolina State University shows that a wind-driven “tumbleweed” Mars rover would be capable of moving across rocky Martian terrain — findings that could also help the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) design the best possible vehicle. “There is quite a bit of interest within NASA to pursue the tumbleweed [...]
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