Since witnessing the historic landing of NASA’s Mars Phoenix Lander on May 25, I’ve been holding my breath to learn if Phoenix has made the discovery it set out to make: whether it landed on a vast deposit of water ice near Mars’ northern polar cap. …
Read the full post at QUEST Community Science Blog
Posted in KQED, pbs, QUEST, Partners, Science, mars, Phoenix, nasa, phoenix lander, martian | Comments Off
MESSSANGER is the space probe that NASA sent to Mercury to give the Solar System’s innermost planet the first up-close look since 1975, when Mariner 10 flew by. The MESSENGER’s main mission will begin in earnest when it returns to Mercury and finally settles into an orbit around the planet, on…
Read the full post at QUEST Community Science Blog
Posted in KQED, pbs, QUEST, Partners, Environment, mercury, nasa, moon, planet, solar system, earth, gas giants, geochemistry, magnetic field, messenger | Comments Off
NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft at Mercury-artist concept.
Photo by: NASA
I’ve been waiting for the “whole story” on Martian ice at the Phoenix lander site to unfold more completely, but the chemical analyses have not yet run their full courses-so I’ve decided to widen the focus on this blog to give a status report…
Read the full post at QUEST Community Science Blog
Posted in KQED, pbs, QUEST, Partners, Science, mercury, Cassini, Saturn, mars, nasa, planet, auror, dwarf planet, gusev crater, mars express, mars odyssey, mars reconnaissance orbiter, martian ice, phoenix lander, pluto, robot, rspirit, solar system | Comments Off
A patch of what might be ice, exposed by Phoenix’s
landing rockets.So, did it land on ice? Huh? Did it?
Two blogs ago I wrote about the then upcoming landing of the Phoenix spacecraft on Mars, near the Northern polar ice cap (Probing the Martian Pole). The entire point of landing on Mars’…
Read the full post at QUEST Community Science Blog
Posted in KQED, QUEST, Partners, TV, space, Chabot Space Center, mars, Phoenix, NPR, rockets, nasa, chabot space and science center, ice, robotic arm, spacecraft | Comments Off
Artistic rendition of exoplanet Gilese 436 b, created in Celestia
In the past fifteen years, the search for other Earths– and possibly life– outside our own solar system has taken off. As of May 2008, 293 extrasolar planets have been confirmed. Most of these planets are big, gas giants like our…
Read the full post at QUEST Community Science Blog
Posted in Radio, KQED, kqedquest, Engineering, 55 cancri, expolanets, kepler, lick observatory, nasa, planets, shane telescope | Comments Off
|
Date Added |
A-Z -or- Pick a Topic
