Month: August 2012
Proba-2’s espresso-cup microcamera snaps Hurricane Isaac
An experimental camera smaller than an espresso cup on ESA’s Proba-2 microsatellite caught this view of…
NASA’s Kepler Discovers Multiple Planets Orbiting a Pair of Stars
NASA's Kepler mission has discovered multiple transiting planets orbiting two suns for the first time.
Kepler Finds Multiple Planets Orbiting Pair of Stars
Kepler-47 is the first double-star system discovered containing multiple planets, one of which is orbiting in…
Curiosity Rover Plays First Song Transmitted From Another Planet
For the first time in history, a recorded song has been beamed back to Earth from…
Isaac Churns in the Gulf
This visible image of Tropical Storm Isaac taken from NOAA's GOES-13 satellite shows the huge extent…
USS Lake Erie
The USS Lake Erie (CG 70) launches a Standard Missile-3 at a non-functioning National Reconnaissance Office…