NASA Archive
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NASA plans icy homes on Mars
Posted on January 6, 2017 | No CommentsThe challenge of finding somewhere to live for a couple of months takes on a whole new difficulty if you are an astronaut landing on […] -
New Horizons sends heart-shaped postcard from Pluto
Posted on July 22, 2015 | 1 CommentThe New Horizons spacecraft finally reached Pluto this week after 9 years travelling through space and at closest approach was at just 12,500 km away from […] -
NASA Produces the First Ever Geological Map of an Asteroid
Posted on November 23, 2014 | No CommentsThe NASA mission DAWN spent all of 2012 orbiting 4 Vesta, the 2nd largest asteroid in the asteroid belt. DAWN is equipped with a camera […] -
The Hubble Telescope snaps a new composite image of one of the oldest star clusters.
Posted on November 18, 2013 | No CommentsNASA/ESA’s Hubble Telescope has recently photographed the globular cluster Messier 15 in unprecedented detail by combining the observations of the Wide Field Camera 3 and […] -
The best thing since sliced bread: Graphene – the chemical sensor and strain detector.
Posted on December 9, 2012 | No CommentsTiny sensors are being developed to detect trace elements within the Earth’s upper atmosphere, and structural flaws within spacecraft. Mahmooda Sultana, an expert from NASA, […]