December 25, 2008 – 11:39 am
Ninety bathtub toys were hurled into a drainage hole on the Greenland ice in September - an experiment to see how melt waters find their way to the base of the ice sheet.
It was hoped the ducks would flow along subglacial channels and eventually pop out into the sea. They may still, but nothing has [...]
November 19, 2008 – 1:57 pm
Once in a while you hear about these kind of news that just makes you wonder. Is there anybody out there? Well this is a good picture of the unexplained Aurora over Saturn. Courtesy of NASA
Infrared images by the robotic Cassini spacecraft of the north pole of Saturn have uncovered aurora unlike any other seen [...]
November 17, 2008 – 1:42 pm
So when’s the next robotic mission to the Moon set to go?
The answer: April 24, 2009.
The name: NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO).
The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter is the first mission in NASA’s Vision for Space Exploration, a plan to return to the moon and then to travel to Mars and beyond. The LRO objectives are to [...]
November 2, 2008 – 12:39 pm
This ain’t no Photoshop.
Follow the link to this page to see the Earth and the Moon as seen from Mars. It is quite amazing.
For some reason, I thought the moon should be located much closer to the Earth. Intuitively, it doesn’t make sense — for me anyway — that the moon seems so large when [...]
September 14, 2008 – 8:26 am
Last week, the National Space Society issued a dazzling — and slightly suspicious — press release, claiming that they’re going to demonstrate on Friday a long-range wireless transfer of electrical energy! Well, Friday had passed by now, and I couldn’t find any reference on the net to this supposedly-spectacular experiment.
In any case, that sort of [...]
