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