This perspective view focuses on the southernmost portion of Sulci Gordii, which highlights jagged fractures and…
Month: May 2013
Sulci Gordii
ESA’s Mars Express imaged the Sulci Gordii region of Mars with its High Resolution Stereo Camera…
Sulci Gordii close-up
This image focuses on a region on the western limb of Sulci Gordii (top centre-right on…
Inside Sulci Gordii
Close-up of the ‘sulci’ features that define Sulci Gordii. Sulci are roughly parallel sets of ridges…
Sulci Gordii topography
This colour-coded overhead view is based on an ESA’s Mars Express High Resolution Stereo Camera digital…
NASA and Ham Radio Operators Piece Together the PhoneSat Picture
For about one week, engineers at NASA Ames and ham radio operators worldwide reconstructed an image…
NASA Astrophysicist Elected to National Academy of Sciences
NASA astrophysicist Chryssa Kouveliotou, a senior scientist at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala.,…
NASA Opens New Era in Measuring Western U.S. Snowpack
A new NASA airborne mission has created the first maps of the entire snowpack of two…
Dwarfed Wavemaker
Like a proud peacock displaying its tail, Enceladus shows off its beautiful plume to the Cassini…
Ready for liftoff: Vega is authorized for its May 3 flight from the Spaceport
The second Vega mission from French Guiana has been given its "green light" for liftoff tomorrow…