Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have identified the source of a mysterious blue light surrounding…
Month: October 2005
Mars Orbiter
New gullies that did not exist in mid-2002 have appeared on a Martian sand dune. That’s…
DIGGING MOON DIRT
NASA announced the Regolith Excavation Challenge, a new Centennial Challenges prize competition that will award $250,000…
Venus Express gets wings
Both solar array ‘wings’ have been installed on ESA’s Venus Express spacecraft, and preparations at the…
NEXT GENERATION SPACECRAFT
NASA Administrator Michael Griffin today released the results of the agency’s exploration architecture study – a…
Ayers Rock Australia
The vast rock formation Uluru (formerly known as Ayers Rock) emerging from the flat desert landscape…
Alpine landscape on the Moon
This image, taken by the Advanced Moon Micro-Imager Experiment (AMIE) on board ESA’s SMART-1 spacecraft, shows…
CryoSat Mission lost due to launch failure
Saturday 10/09/2005 at 21.00 CEST Mr Jury Bakhvalov, First Deputy Director General of the Khrunichev Space…