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Energy: Local Schools Will Be LADWPs Green Grid Guinea Pigs
Curbed LA —
Authority: 624
The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power has won $60 million in stimulus money for their Smart Grid Program, which will help them know where and how energy is being used and anticipate demand and outages. USC and UCLA will act as testing grounds in the program, "replicating a full range of user infrastructure ...3 days ago -
Cassini Captures Ghostly Dance Of Saturn’s Northern Lights
International Space Fellowship —
Authority: 604
In the first video showing the auroras above the northern latitudes of Saturn, Cassini has spotted the tallest known “northern lights” in the solar system, flickering in shape and brightness high above the ringed planet.The new video reveals changes in Saturn’s aurora every few minutes, in high resolution, with ...4 days ago -
Mars Rover Takes One Small Step For A Robot While Attempting To Free Itself From Deep Sand
BotJunkie —
Authority: 643
Spirit, one of the two rovers currently on Mars, has been stuck in the sand for about six months now, and the prognosis is not great. After months of testing here on Earth, engineers have started sending commends to the poor little rover, and it actually looks like Spirit is starting to dig its way out. The picture ...5 days ago -
Before Darkness Falls: Cassini to Scan Enceladus on Winter’s Cusp
International Space Fellowship —
Authority: 604
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft will fly by Saturn’s moon Enceladus this weekend for a last peek at the intriguing ‘tiger stripes’ before winter darkness blankets the area for several years.Scientists are particularly interested in the tiger stripes, which are fissures in the south polar region, because they spew ...1 week ago -
Cassini’s Big Sky: The View from the Center of Our Solar System
International Space Fellowship —
Authority: 604
When NASA’s Cassini spacecraft began orbiting Saturn five years ago, a dozen highly-tuned science instruments set to work surveying, sniffing, analyzing and scrutinizing the Saturnian system. NASA’s Cassini spacecraft is helping to rewrite our understanding of the shape of our solar system as it moves through the ...1 week ago -
Free Spirit – Tilt Parameters End First Extrication Drive
International Space Fellowship —
Authority: 604
The preliminary results from the first extrication drive for Spirit on Sol 2088 (Nov. 17, 2009) indicate the rover stopped less than 1 second after it began, sensing more vehicle lateral tilt than permitted. A tight limit on vehicle roll and pitch of less than 1 degree change was set for this first drive. As [...]1 week ago -
AIRS Produces CO2 Snapshot
Art Institute —
Authority: 163
by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, under contract to NASA. JPL is a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena1 week ago -
NASA and Microsoft Allow Earthlings to Become Martians
International Space Fellowship —
Authority: 604
NASA and Microsoft Corp. of Redmond, Wash., have collaborated to create a Web site where Internet users can have fun while advancing their knowledge of Mars.Drawing on observations from NASA’s Mars missions, the “Be a Martian” Web site will enable the public to participate as citizen scientists to improve ...1 week ago -
NASA’s Wise Gets Ready to Survey the Whole Sky
International Space Fellowship —
Authority: 604
NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or Wise, is chilled out, sporting a sunshade and getting ready to roll. NASA’s newest spacecraft is scheduled to roll to the pad on Friday, Nov. 20, its last stop before launching into space to survey the entire sky in infrared light. Wise is scheduled to launch no ...1 week ago -
Photography: Landscapes by Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
Daily Icon —
Authority: 539
Collected images taken by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) by HiRISE (High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment) camera, which has been photographing the planet for several years already, at resolutions as fine as a few inches per pixel. Martian Landscapes, NASA, JPL, University of Arizona, More: The ...1 week ago -
Herschel Space Observatory – Time Magazine’s Best Inventions
Zero Gravity —
Authority: 452
Time Magazine has released its list of the 50 Best Inventions of 2009 . It’s worth checking out – tons of interesting stuff. Topping the list is NASA’s Ares Rocket. Yay! And the Herschel Space Observatory is also on it, which happens to be the subject of our latest video for Time.com. Herschel is a ...1 week ago -
Can Spirit be Freed?
International Space Fellowship —
Authority: 604
On Monday, NASA will begin transmitting commands to its Mars exploration rover Spirit as part of an escape plan to free the venerable robot from its Martian sand trap.“This is going to be a lengthy process, and there’s a high probability attempts to free Spirit will not be successful,” cautions Doug McCuistion, ...2 weeks ago -
El Nino Picking Up Steam
International Space Fellowship —
Authority: 604
El Niño is experiencing a late-fall resurgence. Recent sea-level height data from the NASA/French Space Agency Ocean Surface Topography Mission/Jason-2 oceanography satellite show that a large-scale, sustained weakening of trade winds in the western and central equatorial Pacific during October has triggered a ...2 weeks ago -
NASA to Begin Attempts to Free Trapped Mars Rover Spirit
International Space Fellowship —
Authority: 604
NASA will begin transmitting commands to its Mars exploration rover Spirit on Monday as part of an escape plan to free the venerable robot from its Martian sand trap.Spirit has been lodged at a site scientists call “Troy” since April 23. Researchers expect the extraction process to be long and the outcome ...2 weeks ago -
WISE Is Chilling Out
International Space Fellowship —
Authority: 604
Engineers are busy cooling the science instrument on NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE. The spacecraft is scheduled to blast into space from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on Dec. 7, 2009. It will map the entire sky in infrared light, uncovering all sorts of hidden treasures — everything ...2 weeks ago -
Stuck Spirit Rover Moves!
International Space Fellowship —
Authority: 604
Written by Nicholos WethingtonThe Spirit Rover, which has had its wheels stuck for 145 Martian sols, has finally moved!Though she’s far from being extricated from her current position, this is the first time that she’s budged in quite a while. The Mars rover driving team is working on ways to get Sprit out, and ...2 weeks ago -
Unknown Asteroid Buzzed Earth
International Space Fellowship —
Authority: 604
Written by Nancy AtkinsonA previously undiscovered asteroid came within 14,000 km of Earth last week, and astronomers noticed it only 15 hours before closest approach. On Nov. 6 at around 16:30 EST a 7 meter asteroid, now called 2009 VA, came only about 2 Earth radii from impacting our home planet. This is the ...2 weeks ago -
One Strange Mars Rock
International Space Fellowship —
Authority: 604
Written by Nancy AtkinsonOpportunity has come upon another big rock on Mars. But what is it? Another meteorite? A big clump of ejecta from an old impact? There’s lots of other debris scattered around this area as well. The rock has been named “Marquette Island,” staying with the island theme for the other ...3 weeks ago -
Spitzer Observes a Chaotic, Dusty Multi-Planet System
International Space Fellowship —
Authority: 604
Before our planets found their way to the stable orbits they circle in today, they wiggled and jostled about like unsettled children. Now, NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has found a young star with evidence for the same kind of orbital hyperactivity. Young planets circling the star are thought to be disturbing ...3 weeks ago -
Frost-Covered Phoenix Lander Seen in Winter Images
International Space Fellowship —
Authority: 604
PASADENA, Calif. – Winter images of NASA’s Phoenix Lander showing the lander shrouded in dry-ice frost on Mars have been captured with the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment, or HiRISE camera, aboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.The HiRISE camera team at the University of Arizona, Tucson, captured ...3 weeks ago
