Bradbury & Friends
Wind the clock back to 1971. On the eve of the Mariner 9 launch, Ray Bradbury took part in a panel discussion at Caltech with Carl Sagan, Arthur C. Clark, [...]
Twisters On Mars
Dust devils occur on Earth as well as on Mars. They are spinning columns of air, made visible by the dust they pull off the ground. Unlike a tornado, a [...]
Cruising To Mars
As Rover Curiosity hurtles through space on its way to Mars, it is confronted with many issues that NASA scientists must constantly account for. See the next step of Curiosity’s [...]
What sets Curiosity apart from other Mars Rovers?
The Mars Science Lab was launched November 26, 2011, and is scheduled to land on Mars at Gale Crater on August 6, 2012. The rover Curiosity, after completing a more [...]
An Asteroid’s Surface in Fine Detail
A new video from NASA’s Dawn spacecraft takes us on a flyover journey above the surface of the giant asteroid Vesta. The data obtained by Dawn’s framing camera, used to [...]
