Human activities, a changing climate and natural disasters are rapidly altering the face of our planet.…
Month: December 2013
NASA Commercial Crew Partner Blue Origin Test-Fires New Rocket Engine
NASA commercial crew partner Blue Origin of Kent, Wash., announced it has tested a new, hydrogen-…
Hubble Traces Subtle Signals of Water on Hazy Worlds
Using the powerful eye of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, two teams of scientists have found faint…
View of the Transantarctic Mountains
This image of the Transantarctic Mountains was taken from the NASA P-3 airborne laboratory on Nov.…
Comet Artist Impression
Artist’s impression of the nucleus of comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, portrayed far from the Sun with little to…
Rosetta and Philae at comet
Artist’s impression of the Rosetta orbiter deploying the Philae lander to comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. After an extensive…
Rosetta and Philae at comet
Artist’s impression of the Rosetta orbiter deploying the Philae lander to comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. The image is…
Philae landing on comet
Artist’s impression of the Rosetta orbiter deploying the Philae lander to comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko (not to scale).…