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NASA’s Europa Clipper to probe habitability of Jupiter’s icy…
Washington, March 12: To check the habitability of Jupiter’s icy moon Europa, National Aeronautics and Space Administration is all set to launch ‘Europa Clipper’ in 2020. NASA on Friday announced that its upcoming mission to explore the habitability of Jupiter’s icy moon Europa will be officially called ‘Europa Clipper’.
NASA shocked by amazing discovery at the moon
A new NASA radar technique has just found something astonishing circling the moon many miles away: a long-lost lunar probe launched by India that went missing eight years ago. Chandrayaan-1 is a very small spacecraft that is jut five feet on each size, half the size of a small car, and scientists were able to locate it with a remarkable new method using radar.
Lost since 2009, Indian spacecraft Chandrayaan-1 found orbiting moon, claims NASA
China announced plans to launch a space probe to bring back samples from the moon before the end of the year in what state media cast as competition to U.S. President Donald Trump’s ambitions to revitalise U.S. space exploration. The Chang’e 3 probe is JPL radar scientist Marina Brozovic said: “We have been able to detect NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and the Indian Space Research Organisation’s Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft in lunar orbit with ground-based radar”.
New NASA radar technique finds lost lunar spacecraft
It is known as the “Mars Antenna” as it was first to receive signals from the first spacecraft to closely observe Mars, Mariner 4, on March 18, 1966. Finding derelict spacecraft and space debris in Earth’s orbit can be a technological challenge.
NASA Mars Orbiter shows images of back-to-back regional storms on the red planet9 min ago
Washington, March 10: In a major development, NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has tracked images from the orbiter’s wide-angle Mars Color Imager on the surface of the red planet. The images that are captured show each storm growing in the Acidalia area of northern Mars, then blowing southward and exploding to sizes bigger than the United States after reaching the southern hemisphere.
It’s a ravioli! It’s a UFO! It’s a moon
NASA on Thursday released pictures of Pan, one of Saturn’s many moons, and its distinctive shape is drawing comparisons to flying saucers and stuffed pasta. The images of the moon come courtesy of NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, and reveal the UFO-like form of the tiny satellite, which has an average radius of just 8.8 miles.
Flippy is your new robotic burger chef that’s actually working in a restaurant
Every year, we are starting to see more advancements when it comes to artificial intelligence and its penetration into our everyday lives . Now, Miso Robotics and Cali Group have now introduced a robotic “chef” into a restaurant that will be able to assist workers and cook the perfect burger.
Stocks Primecap Management Continues to Buy
PRIMECAP Management was founded in September 1983 in Pasadena, California, and manages Vanguard’s PRIMECAP Fund, Vanguard Capital Opportunity Fund and Vanguard PRIMECAP Core Fund. It manages a portfolio composed of 277 stocks with a total value of $101.625 billion.
NASA almost had a huge disaster
NASA almost had a disaster on its hands recently in space, but fortunately, everyone can breathe a sigh of relief. NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft is a vital instrument orbiting Mars, but it had to make a sudden maneuver to avoid smashing into Mars’ moon Phobos recently, NASA said in a statement.
Finding the hidden waterways of Los Angeles County, starting with the Arroyo Seco
A canopy of Oak trees over a group of people playing frisbee golf at Oak Grove Park. City of Pasadena contracted a tree service Thursday to cut down seven oaks trees and one Willow tree.
Satellite shifts course to avoid hitting Mars’ moon
Without the tweak, Maven and the small, lumpy moon would have reached the same point in space within seven seconds of one another. Photo: Reuters A Nasa science satellite orbiting Mars was forced to make a rare evasive maneuver to avoid a collision next week with one of the planet’s two small moons, the US space agency said on Thursday .
Juno Probe to Remain in Current Orbit Around Jupiter
NASA’s Juno spacecraft soared directly over Jupiter’s south pole when JunoCam acquired this image on Feb. 2, 2017, from an altitude of about 62,800 miles above the cloud tops. This image was processed by citizen scientist John Landino.
Something major has been reported near Jupiter
A major new development could have a huge impact on NASA’s Juno mission, which is currently in orbit around the gas giant. It’s been months since NASA’s Juno spacecraft arrived at our solar system’s largest plan, Jupiter, back on July 4, and now a major new revelation has come from NASA: the spacecraft won’t move into closer orbit around Jupiter like they originally planned to, which is sure to be disappointing for many people.
Does Enceladus Have An Ocean?
“Enceladus was so exciting that, instead of just three close flybys planned for our four-year primary mission, we added 20 more, including seven that went right through the geysers at the south pole,” said Linda Spilker, Cassini project scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California. By following the trail of scientific breadcrumbs, Cassini eventually found that Enceladus harbors a global ocean of salty water under its icy crust, possibly with hydrothermal vents on its seafloor.
Antarctic sea ice reaches record low
There is currently less sea ice surrounding the Antarctic continent than at any point since reliable records began in 1979. “As of Tuesday, it looks like we hit a new record low in the satellite era,” Mark Serreze, the director of the National Snow and Ice Data Center, said.
Lasers could give space research its ‘Broadband’ moment
The vast distances involved will throttle data rates to a trickle. Youre lucky if a spacecraft can send more than a few megabits per second — a pittance even by dial-up standards, read the NASA website.
NASA’s Cassini mission to Saturn inspires people of Earth
Although the motivation behind NASA’s Cassini mission to Saturn was scientific, part of the planet’s allure has long been in its undeniable physical beauty. Since Cassini arrived at Saturn in 2004, dramatic views from the spacecraft’s imaging cameras – and other sensors that observe in infrared, ultraviolet and radio frequencies – have revealed the ringed planet and its moons in unprecedented detail for scientists to study.
NASA, UCI reveal new details of Greenland Ice loss
Washington, Feb 10 : Less than a year after the first research flight kicked off NASA’s Oceans Melting Greenland campaign last March, data from the new program are providing a dramatic increase in knowledge of how Greenland’s ice sheet is melting from below. Two new research papers in the journal Oceanography use OMG observations to document how meltwater and ocean currents are interacting along Greenlands west coast and to improve seafloor maps used to predict future melting and subsequent sea level rise.
Child protection agency misses hundreds of payments due to computer glitches
Philip Browning, head of the county Department of Children and Family Services, listens to a woman who cares for her granddaughter after a 2012 talk to caregivers in South Central. Philip Browning, head of the county Department of Children and Family Services, listens to a woman who cares for her granddaughter after a 2012 talk to caregivers in South Central.
Similar-Looking Ridges on Mars Have Diverse Origins
Thin, blade-like walls, some as tall as a 16-story building, dominate a previously undocumented network of intersecting ridges on Mars, found in images from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The simplest explanation for these impressive ridges is that lava flowed into pre-existing fractures in the ground and later resisted erosion better than material around them.
Vietnam doc makes Ken Burns, Trent Reznor partners
Ken Burns, from left, Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross and Lynn Novick speak at PBS’ “The Vietnam War” panel at the 2017 Television Critics Association press tour on Sunday, Jan. 15, 2017, in Pasadena, Calif. less Ken Burns, from left, Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross and Lynn Novick speak at PBS’ “The Vietnam War” panel at the 2017 Television Critics Association press tour on Sunday, Jan. 15, 2017, in Pasadena, Calif.
Without Game of Thrones, HBO Will Rely on The Young Pope and Murderous Moms
Every spring since 2011, HBO has been able to rely on the new season of Game of Thrones and the audience surge that show provides. Last year, Season 6 helped the series become the network’s most-watched series ever, with an average of 25 million viewers on all platforms.
NASA detects TWO space rocks heading towards Earth
Nasa detects TWO space rocks heading towards Earth – but it still can’t work out whether one is an asteroid or a comet This week a comet that started life in the outer reaches of our solar system will be visible from Earth for the first time, as it approaches our planet’s orbit. Another recently-discovered object, called 2016 WF9, has also been taking a scenic tour of our solar system, approaching Jupiter’s orbit at its greatest distance from the sun.
Noon Year’s Eve: Sunny Celebration
It’s an established and accepted fact that Pasadena has a notable knack for bending time and space, easy-peasy-style. The space part of the equation is widely known, thanks to the presence of the cosmos-cool Jet Propulsion Laboratory, but the Crown City’s time-changing properties are also robust.
NASA’s Mars Odyssey orbiter recovering from Protective Status
NASA’s Mars Odyssey orbiter, which has been in service at Mars since October 2001, put itself into safe mode – a protective standby status – on December 26th, while remaining in communication with Earth. The Odyssey project team has diagnosed the cause – an uncertainty aboard the spacecraft about its orientation with regard to Earth and the sun – and is restoring the orbiter to full operations.
NASA’s Journey to Mars builds ground work for missions beyond our Solar System
Humanity’s great leap into the space between the stars has, in a sense, already begun. NASA’s Voyager 1 probe broke through the sun’s magnetic bubble to touch the interstellar wind.