568-Tough Space Rock
At its closest point, a small space rock comes to only 1/3 of Mercury's average distance from the solar surface and receives 9 times the amount of solar energy which heats the planet Mercury to 800F. ...
27 Des 20192min
56E-68-Hubble Finds Three Surprising Dry Exoplanets
Water is essential to life on our planet. Recently, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope was used to study 3 planets orbiting stars similar to our Sun. Astronomers divided the infrared light from these pla...
24 Des 20192min
567-Close Space Rock
Nine hours after it was discovered a tiny, 4 foot in diameter, space rock streaked less than 4,000 miles above southern Africa as it passed through the cloud of communications satellites which surroun...
20 Des 20192min
55E-67-NASA Deep Space Network Turns 50
NASA's Deep Space Network is celebrating its 50th birthday. Australia, Spain, and California host its three sites. These facilities are spaced nearly evenly around the world to provide continuous comm...
17 Des 20192min
566-October Fest
October of 2019 was a record breaking month for my team the Catalina Sky Survey during which we discovered 240 Earth approaching asteroids. This diverse collection of space rocks ranged in size from o...
13 Des 20192min
54E-66-Opportunity Celebrates 10 years on Mars
The Opportunity Rover has been joined by, a car sized robot, named Curiosity. So far it has found that ancient Mars could have supported living microbes. You can follow its journey on the NASA Cur...
10 Des 20192min
565-Ancient Crater
In ancient times, Aboriginal people in southwestern Australia quarried fine grained rock on an ancient hill called Barlangi Rock to make very sharp tools. Dr. Timmons Erickson, a NASA scientist at the...
6 Des 20192min
53E-65-Your Shield
The NEOShield project is an international group of scientists and engineers from space faring nations. They are doing the detailed analysis and planning required to provide an effective means of deali...
3 Des 20192min
