Source: NBC A new asteroid mining venture, Deep Space Industries, will be unveiled later today at the The Santa Monica Museum of Flying beginning at 10 AM PT and broadcast on spacevidcast.com as well as Youtube. Press releases thus far have indicated that the company will initially focus on sending small, 55 lb. spacecraft evocatively named Firefly, […]
Source: NASA, ESA For a students of ancient Egyptian religion (and who isn’t), Apophis is the Greek name give to the evil god Apep, often represented as a serpent. As the mortal enemy of Ra, the sun god and bringer of light, Apep battled to bring darkness and chaos to the world. To later generations of course, and fans of […]
NASA / JPL announced on December 6th the discovery of “long , narrow, sinuous” gullies on the asteroid Vesta. Although no one is claiming at this point that the gullies are clear evidence of water ice, the features bear a remarkable resemblance to similar water carved chasms on Earth and on Mars. The features in question differ markedly from other, short […]
Source : Al.com Huntsville and north Alabama have always played a key role in sending people and machines into space, and apparently space is trying to return the favor. On the evening of October 30th, at 5:30 PM, a sonic boom and fireball northwest of Cullman, Al signalled the arrival of meteor substantial enough to be tracked by doppler radar. Now a team of 6 […]
Even as NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope continues to chart new planets around distant stars at an impressive rate, data gathered from another NASA spacecraft, the Wide-field Infrared Observatory (WISE), is shedding light on a particular class of asteroids shadowing planetary orbits in our home system. Labelled as Trojan asteroids following the initial discovery of the asteroid “Achilles” in a position ahead of Jupiter in 1906, they can precede or […]
Is the inner solar system one big swimming hole? The discovery of what is by all appearances is a dry stream bed on Mars by the Curiosity rover this week adds to a growing body of evidence that sometime in the distant past, at least portions of the Red Planet once more closely resembled our own blue marble, somewhat inappropriately […]
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