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SPACE: What’s up this month – Milky Way, Mars and Saturn
RICHMOND, Va. (WTVR) – As we shoot off our own man-made fireworks this week celebrating our Independence, and nature continues to provide its own fireworks with strong to severe thunderstorms, it...
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Advanced telescope imaging system searches for other suns and orbiting planets
PASADENA, Ca. (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory) – An advanced telescope imaging system that started taking data in June 2012 is the first of its kind capable of spotting planets orbiting suns outside of...
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NASA: Curiosity lands on Mars
PASADENA, Ca. (NASA/JPL) – NASA’s most advanced Mars rover Curiosity has landed on the Red Planet. The one-ton rover, hanging by ropes from a rocket backpack, touched down onto Mars Sunday to end a...
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NASA: Curiosity rover returns voice recording and telephoto views from Mars
PASADENA, Ca. (NASA) – NASA’s Mars Curiosity has debuted the first recorded human voice that traveled from Earth to another planet and back. In spoken words radioed to the rover on Mars and back to...
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NASA Orbiter observations point to ‘Dry Ice’ snowfall on Mars
PASADENA, CA. (NASA JPL) – NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) data have given scientists the clearest evidence yet of carbon-dioxide snowfalls on Mars. This reveals the only known example of...
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SPACE: What’s up for November 2012
PASADENA, Ca. (NASA JPL) – What’s Up for November? The return of Jupiter in the evening sky. Hello and welcome. I’m Jane Houston Jones at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California....
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NASA: What’s up for January – Close encounters of the planetary kind
PASADENA, Ca. (NASA JPL) – Hello and welcome. I’m Jane Houston Jones at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. It’s easy and fun to find planets when they’re next to the moon....
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NASA: A comet may have a close encounter with Mars
PASADENA, Ca. (NASA JPL) – Over the years, the spacefaring nations of Earth have sent dozens of probes and rovers to explore Mars. Today there are three active satellites circling the red planet...
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NASA: What’s up for April 2013
PASADENA, Ca. (NASA JPL) – Saturn’s north pole is now tilted towards Earth, giving us the best view of the rings since 2006.
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VIDEO: Gigantic hurricane spotted on Saturn
PASADENA, Ca. (NASA JPL) – NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has provided scientists the first close-up, visible-light views of a behemoth hurricane swirling around Saturn’s north pole. In high-resolution...
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What’s up in the May 2013 night sky
PASADENA, Ca. (NASA JPL) – Spring constellations yield science targets you can see. I’m Jane Houston Jones at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. May is a great month to see a...
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NASA: What’s up for July 2013
PASADENA, Ca. (NASA JPL) – Wave at Saturn as the Cassini spacecraft takes a picture of Earth. Saturn is well-placed for viewing this month, revealing its northern hemisphere and a ring tilt open to 17...
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