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These spectacular 'blue marble' images are the most detailed views of Earth to date. Read more:
Since man first touched the moon and brought pieces of it back to Earth, scientists have thought that the lunar surface was bone dry. But new observations from three different spacecraft have put this notion to rest with what has been called "unambiguous evidence" of water across the surface of the moon.
The first man to walk on the moon will not take part in a NASA event celebrating the 40th anniversary of the lunar landing. http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/jul/15/neil-armstrong-nasa-apollo-event NASA is ready to launch the "first step back to the Moon" - LRO/LCROSS - this afternoon. The unmanned probes will share a ride atop an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral's LC-41. NASA reports:
Live webcast at SpaceVidCast. Launch blog at NASA. Countdown, pics and video at KSC. News video at CFNews13. More clips at Space Multimedia. Live video at SFN. Discussion at Nasaspaceflight. Check the links at right for play-by-play and NASA TV. SAN FRANCISCO — Google Inc. on Monday launched a new version of Google Earth that allows users to explore the oceans, view 3D images of the planet Mars and watch regions of the Earth change over time.
JPL's Explorer 1 was launched by a U.S. Army Redstone booster (AKA Juno I) from Cape Canaveral's Pad 26, and was America's entry into the space race. It first detected the Van Allen radiation belts that surround the Earth. The spacecraft orbited our planet until it burned up in the atmosphere in 1970. The Soviets may have been first, but with Explorer's success, the Space Race was on! What will the next 50 years bring? FORMER NASA astronaut and moon-walker Dr Edgar Mitchell - a veteran of the Apollo 14 mission - has stunningly claimed aliens exist. And he says extra-terrestrials have visited Earth on several occasions - but the alien contact has been repeatedly covered up by governments for six decades. |
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