Posts Tagged Nasa

4 results.

Ode To Curiosity

by on August 7, 2012 at 12:21 am
Posted In: Blog

I stayed up late last night, or was it this morning, to watch the live coverage of the latest rover to land on Mars, Curiosity! Cheers went up every few minutes from NASA/JPL Mission Control for each step in Curiosity’s descent to the surface. Once down, it wasn’t long before we were receiving the first photos from the rover’s landing site in Gale Crater.

As an ode to Curiosity, here’s one of Ellie’s first photos of the surface of Planet X, shortly after she remembered to take her lens caps off!

└ Tags: , , ,
1 Comment

Another Alien Planet That Might Host Life

by on December 7, 2011 at 12:43 am
Posted In: Blog

A new planet was discovered by NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope over the weekend. This one’s a little special. It’s been named Kepler 22b by astronomers and it sits right smack inside what’s termed the Goldilocks Zone in orbit around its parent star, 600 light years away. Not too hot, not too cold. Just right for the possibility of running water and balmy 70 degree days.

Here’s a link to read more about Kepler 22b. And here’s an artist’s interpretation of another planet that falls within the habitable zone of its star:

└ Tags: , ,
2 Comments

35 Years Ago Today…

by on June 19, 2011 at 6:17 pm
Posted In: Blog

The Viking Mars Lander touched down on the surface of Mars on June 19, 1976. I remember watching the first picture appear, line by line, on our neighbors’ TV. It doesn’t look like much, but this was the first photo I’d seen from the surface of another planet! Not counting the moon, of course (it being a moon).

Photo courtesy of Wikipedia.

└ Tags: , , ,
 Comment 

Goodbye, Spirit!

by on May 27, 2011 at 6:00 pm
Posted In: Blog

Ellie reader Carsten pointed us to this article at the NASA JPL website. Spirit, one of the two twin rovers that had been making their ways across the Martian terrain, hasn’t been heard from since March of 2010. In March of this year the last attempt at contacting the rover was made to no avail. Finally, after more than six years (five years, nine months more than expected) Spirit’s mission is complete.

Everyone at the Strang Institute bids a fond farewell to Spirit and salutes all those involved with her mission to explore the red planet.

We can only hope Ellie’s mission can be as successful.

└ Tags: , , , , ,
 Comment