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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 Pasadena
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• 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

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