NASA and President Barack Obama’s decision to virtually cancel Nasa’s moon program is widely seen as a great set back by the scientific community and those whose livelihoods depend on it. Obama’s 2011 budget plan, announced on Monday, aborts a symbolic but expensive lunar programme and spends $6 billion over five years to turn over [...]
Feb
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NASA’s Kepler Found Five More Bigger Planets
Its human nature that we always look for something more and the same thought process applies in the astronomical laboratories as well. NASA is busy these days with an interesting finding done by its new space telescope Kepler. The Kepler mission which began last year has found five more planets called exoplanets which are very [...]
Jan
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2010
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2010
Spirit on Mars… 6-year old, but aint looking good!
NASA’s Mars rover, named Spirit, which touched base on the Red Planet on January 3, 2004 has completed its sixth anniversary. However, the conditions on which it’s passing its days are turning increasingly inhospitable. The rover, which has spent 3.2 mars-years got sand-trapped in the southern hemisphere of Mars in April 2009. The rover was [...]
Jan
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2010
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From Russia… for steroids!
The possibility of a steroid hitting our planet has been making rounds from quite some time. The same has already inspired Hollywood to capture the eventuality on screen. However, the risks of such an event actually happening was assigned a probability of 1 in 250,000 for the steroid Apophis, the most likely threat known as [...]
Dec
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NASA–Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer-WISE
NASA’S WISE has lifted off over the Pacific Ocean. NASA’s WISE is on its way to plot the infrared light in the entire sky. At 6.09 am PST (9.09am EST) A Delta II rocket has launched by carrying the spacecraft. It was started from Vandenberg Air Force Base, which is in California. 360 miles above [...]