The Pale Blue Dot is a photograph of planet Earth taken in 1990 by the Voyager 1 space probe from a record distance of about 6 billion kilometers (3.7 billion miles, 40 AU) from Earth, as part of the solar system Family Portrait series of images. In the photograph, Earth is shown as a fraction […]
Read More →This post is a direct lift from Nasa Photojournal. This graphic shows the orbits of all the known Potentially Hazardous Asteroids (PHAs), numbering over 1,400 as of early 2013. These are the asteroids considered hazardous because they are fairly large (at least 460 feet or 140 meters in size), and because they follow orbits that […]
Read More →We are just couple of weeks away from another exciting year. Here are few articles from various sources which claim to have put the best of 2009 in various categories. For those of you who want to know what was news on a specific date, google has newstimeline to fit the bill. Here we go: […]
Read More →NASA and Microsoft have collaborated to create a Web site where Internet users can have fun while advancing their knowledge of Mars. Also you can help NASA by contributing to it through this website. Doug McCuistion, director of the Mars Exploration Program at NASA Headquarters in Washington says “With so much data coming back from […]
Read More →Since 2006, NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has been orbiting Mars, currently circling approximately 300 km (187 mi) above the Martian surface. On board the MRO is HiRISE, the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment camera, which has been photographing the planet for several years now at resolutions as fine as mere inches per pixel. The […]
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