Weekly SkyWatcher’s Forecast: September 10-16, 2012
Greetings, fellow SkyWatchers! With very little Moon to contend with this week, it will be a great time to take…
An Inside Look at Curiosity’s Inner Workings
What makes a rover rove? At the very basic level, it comes down to gears, and all the gears have…
Beautiful Timelapse: Purely Pacific Northwest
Here's a wonderful new timelapse from photographer John Ecklund, a photographer from Portland, Oregon. He captures incredible views of the…
Curiosity Snaps Evocative Self Portrait
Image Cation: Curiosity takes Self Portrait on Sol 32 with the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI). Image has been rotated…
JPL’s Torture Chamber for Spacecraft
The Mars Science Laboratory rover, Curiosity being tested under Martian conditions in JPL's space simulator on March 8, 2011. Credit:…
Endeavour to Take to the Skies One Last Time
One of NASA's 747 SCAs carries Endeavour from Edwards to Kennedy in 2008 following its landing at Edwards to conclude…
Is Triton Hiding an Underground Ocean?
Voyager 2 mosaic of Neptune's largest moon, Triton (NASA) At 1,680 miles (2,700 km) across, the frigid and wrinkled Triton is Neptune’s…
Curiosity on the Move! HiRISE Spies Rover Tracks on Mars
The beginning of Curiosity's journeys. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona Yes, the Curiosity rover is on the move, evidenced by the…
NASA’s Colossal Crawler Gets Souped-Up for SLS
Shuttle Discovery riding one of KSC's crawler-transporters to Launch Pad 39B in June 2005 (NASA) One of NASA's two iconic…
A Jodrell Odyssey – Part 1 – The Discovery Centre
Caption: The Lovell Telescope from The Discovery Centre Cafe. Credit: Howard Barlow for the University of Manchester Ever get the…