Thursday, October 31, 2013

Helix Nebula: Detailed Image 3 | Hubble

Helix Nebula: Detailed Image 2 | Hubble

Infrared Iris | NASA Spitzer Space Telescope

Helix Nebula: Detailed Image 1 | Hubble

SpaceX Video Captures 'Re-Lightable' Engine

Mars Guide: Active Sand in Nili Patera

Is the U.S. Yielding Spaceflight Leadership to China? (Op-Ed)

Surprise Cloud Around Vast Star | ESO Observatory

Zooming in on Active Galaxy NGC 1433 | ESO

Composite View of Galaxy NGC 1433 | ALMA & Hubble

Bill Nye: How Not to Get Lost in Space | NASA Juno

Bill Nye and Jupiter's Super Storm | NASA Juno Mission

MARS 2013 Morocco Mars Analog Field Simulation

Mars as Video Art: Colorful Dunes

Mars Guide: Artynia Catena

Mars Guide: Brain-Coral Texture on Crater Floor

Mars Guide: Crater with Surrounding Bench in Sinus Meridiani

Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Dare Mighty Things: NASA’s Rock Stars Go Beyond Mars

Adam Steltzner is a NASA engineer who works for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). View his riveting presentation on the success of the Curiosity rover mission. Adam describes how the sky crane his team designed at JPL performed an elaborate, impossible-seeming sequence to lower the huge Mars rover Curiosity to the planet's surface from a hovering rocket guided totally by artificial intelligence. Humans wouldn't know if it worked until it was all over. Hence the terror. The actual Mars landing took place on August 6th, 2012.


Adam Steltzner: Beyond Mars, Earth from The Long Now Foundation on FORA.tv

Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Spectacular View of V838 Monocerotis Light Echo | Hubble

Hubble Catches Titan Chasing Its Shadow at Saturn

Bill Nye: Is Jupiter Like a Piece of The Sun? | NASA Juno Mission

Mars as Art: Colorful Dunes

The Galactic Bubble RCW 120 | ESA Herschel Space Observatory

Spiral Galaxy M81 Details | Hubble Space Telescope

Martian Crater Rich in Opal | NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter

Hubble/GALEX/Spitzer Composite Image of Messier 81

Milky-Way Near the Constellation of Cygnus

Hubble Captures Full View of Uranus' Rings on Edge | Annotated

Hubble Captures Full View of Uranus' Rings on Edge

Uncovering Another View of the Veil Nebula | Hubble

Mars Guide: Gullies and Curved Ridges at the Base of Crater Walls

Mars Guide: Spectacular Richardson Crater Dunes

Mars Guide: Light-Toned Layered Rock Outcrop in Ladon Valles

Mars Guide: Sand Dune Changes

NGC 1132 in Visible Light and X-Ray | Hubble & Chandra

Extreme Star Cluster Bursts Into Life

Virgo Cluster Galaxies and Their Globular Star Clusters

Close-up of Jupiter's New Red Spot | Hubble

Lord of the Stars | Hubble Space Telescope

Saturday, October 12, 2013

SpaceX Grasshopper 744m Test | Single Camera (Hexacopter)

Cumulonimbus Cloud Over Africa | International Space Station

Moon Rock From Apollo 11 on International Space Station

Space Shuttle Discovery & Isla de Providencia, Columbia, Nicaragua

Calgary, Alberta - Canada | International Space Station

Algerian Desert | International Space Station

Moscow and St. Petersburg at Night | International Space Station

Google & NASA's Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab

A Missile Launch Seen from Space: An Unexpected Surprise! | ISS

Thursday, October 10, 2013

China to Launch Change'-3 Lunar Probe at Year End

Rio De Janeiro, Brazil at Night | ISS

Hubble's Full Photomap of Pluto

The Changing Faces of Pluto | Hubble Space Telescope

Pluto - "The Dwarf Planet" | Hubble Space Telescope

NYTimes.com: Scott Carpenter, Mercury Astronaut Who Orbited Earth, Dies at 88

Scott Carpenter, Pioneering NASA Astronaut and 2nd American in Orbit, Has Died at Age 88.

Panning across PGC 6240 | Hubble Space Telescope

Zooming in on PGC 6240 | Hubble Space Telescope

Hubble Image of PGC 6240

Hebes Chasma 3D | ESA Mars Express

Hebes Chasma Mesa | ESA Mars Express

Hebes Chasma | ESA Mars Express


Shocking Secrets of the Crab Pulsar | Hubble


Uranus in Natural Colors | Hubble Space Telescope


The Dog Star, Sirius A, and Tiny Companion | Hubble

Liege, Belgium at Night | International Space Station