ESA’s Planck satellite, due to study relic radiation from the Big Bang, is on display for the media in Cannes. Images of the spacecraft in all its glory will be published on the web at the end of Thursday’s press conference.
http://planck.esa.int/science-e/www/area/index.cfm?fareaid=17
Planck satellite on view
01. Februar 2007, 00:22 Uhr - Veröffentlicht von Olaf in Allgemein - (Kommentare deaktiviert)Kurz-URL: http://solscape.astroarts.org/TEtwD
How SMART-1 has made European space exploration smarter
01. Februar 2007, 00:20 Uhr - Veröffentlicht von Olaf in Mond - (Kommentare deaktiviert)Kurz-URL: http://solscape.astroarts.org/OSI1h
A unique way to travel to the Moon, new technologies successfully tested and brand-new science: a few months after the end of the SMART-1 mission scientists and engineers gathered to recap on these and all the other achievements of the first European mission to the Moon.
http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMI0USMTWE_index_0.html
Opportunity's Journey around Victoria Crater
31. Januar 2007, 00:24 Uhr - Veröffentlicht von Olaf in Mars - (Kommentare deaktiviert)Kurz-URL: http://solscape.astroarts.org/1Ehjj
Three years after embarking on a historic exploration of the red planet and six miles away from its landing site, NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity is traversing “Victoria Crater” ridge by ridge, peering at layered cliffs in the interior. To identify various alcoves and cliffs along the way, science team members are using names of places visited by the 16th-century Earth explorer Ferdinand Magellan and his crew aboard the ship Victoria, who proved the Earth is round.
Satellite View of Opportunity’s Journey around “Victoria Crater” (Annotated)
Nanochip moves molecular computers a step closer
29. Januar 2007, 22:16 Uhr - Veröffentlicht von Olaf in Forschung & Technik - (Kommentare deaktiviert)Kurz-URL: http://solscape.astroarts.org/wI24t
Don’t throw away your laptop yet, but there’s a promising new high-tech invention being announced this week. Researchers have created a memory circuit the size of a white blood cell that has 160 kilobits of capacity – it’s the densest memory circuit ever fabricated. A team of UCLA and California Institute of Technology chemists successfully demonstrated a large-scale, “ultra-dense” memory device that stores information using reconfigurable molecular switches. This research represents an important step towards the creation of molecular computers that are much smaller and could be more powerful than today’s silicon-based computers.
Caltech and UCLA Researchers Create Memory Circuit the Size of a Human White Blood Cell
Mars may still have large amounts of water
27. Januar 2007, 16:57 Uhr - Veröffentlicht von Olaf in Mars - (Kommentare deaktiviert)Kurz-URL: http://solscape.astroarts.org/i8CfJ
Much of the water and carbon dioxide that Mars had early in its history may still be locked up within the planet. In a paper published in the journal “Science”, researchers said that the rate of escape of water and carbon dioxide from the Martian atmosphere, as measured by an instrument on ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft, is only a small fraction of what was earlier believed. Scientists had previously thought that most of the carbon dioxide and water the planet had early in its history had been stripped from the atmosphere by solar winds. However, at the current rates of escape, only a small fraction of that original supply would have been lost. Researches argue that either much of the carbon dioxide and water is locked up in hidden subsurface deposits, or that other mechanisms stripped the planet of those volatiles.
Lutetia asteroid in Rosetta's spotlight
27. Januar 2007, 16:55 Uhr - Veröffentlicht von Olaf in Asteroiden & Co. - (Kommentare deaktiviert)Kurz-URL: http://solscape.astroarts.org/HCPmb
Earlier this month ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft had a first look at asteroid 21-Lutetia, one of the targets of its long mission. The onboard camera OSIRIS imaged the asteroid passing through its field of view during the spacecraft’s gradual approach to Mars. The planet will be reached on February 25, 2007, for the mission’s next gravity assist.
http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMNRESMTWE_index_1.html
Super Touch Screen (not only) for Google Earth
27. Januar 2007, 16:36 Uhr - Veröffentlicht von Olaf in Forschung & Technik • Video - (Kommentare deaktiviert)Kurz-URL: http://solscape.astroarts.org/vXceP
Last fall, Jeff Han demonstrated a touch-driven computer screen, which can be manipulated intuitively with the fingertips. Now, Jeff has formed a company called “Perceptive Pixel” to bring this idea to the market. Recently, he was interviewed by “Fast Company” and they have released this really awesome video demonstrating even more applications including Google Earth being used with a wall-sized touch screen:
HiRISE Camera Shows Mojave Crater Peak
26. Januar 2007, 04:42 Uhr - Veröffentlicht von Olaf in Mars - (Kommentare deaktiviert)Kurz-URL: http://solscape.astroarts.org/MD3ov
The HiRISE camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter took a huge, detailed image of Mars’ Mojave Crater on January 7, 2007. The image shows the central uplift structure in the crater. Rocks that form this peak were several kilometers beneath the surface until an impact formed the 60 kilometer-diameter crater just north of Mars’ equator. The HiRISE image also shows that boulders as large as 15 meters across have eroded from the massive uplifted rock and rolled downslope.
http://hiroc.lpl.arizona.edu/images/PSP/diafotizo.php?ID=PSP_002101_1875
NASA moves up next shuttle launch
26. Januar 2007, 04:39 Uhr - Veröffentlicht von Olaf in Space Shuttle & ISS - (Kommentare deaktiviert)Kurz-URL: http://solscape.astroarts.org/XYQgR
Shuttle managers decided Wednesday to move up the launch of the next shuttle mission by one day to March 15. The mission, STS-117, had been scheduled to lift off on the morning of March 16, but will now take place a day earlier to give the space agency additional time to launch the shuttle Atlantis before the launch window closes on March 29. The shuttle has to complete its mission to the ISS at least 72 hours before the April 9 launch of a Soyuz mission to the station, to avoid having both the shuttle and the Soyuz in the vicinity of the station at the same time. The goal of the 11-day shuttle mission is to attach a new truss segment and a set of solar arrays to the ISS.
Source: NASA
New Horizons' Jupiter images now online
25. Januar 2007, 01:42 Uhr - Veröffentlicht von Olaf in Jupiter - (Kommentare deaktiviert)Kurz-URL: http://solscape.astroarts.org/NvygV
As Emily Lakdawalla pointed out in her blog, all of New Horizons’ most recently acquired Jupiter images are available on the New Horizons Science Operations Center website.
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