B-15 About to Crash Again
Just a few weeks after smashing a chunk off Drygalski ice tongue, iceberg B-15A is still wreaking havoc off the…
What’s Up This Week – May 16 – May 22, 2005
Greetings, fellow SkyWatchers! "Lunacy" has returned again - and with it familiar features and new ways of looking at them.…
Book Review: The Road to Reality
Knowledge keeps on growing. In early times, like the cavemen era, people put their hands near fire and understood 'hot'.…
Mystery of Martian Icecaps Explained
Mars' southern polar ice cap is completely off-centre. Researchers working with NASA think they have an answer to this lopsided…
Probing the Atmosphere of an Extrasolar Planet
Astronomers working with the Canadian Microvariability & Oscillations of STars (MOST) space telescope have been able to indirectly probe the…
Testing Strategies to Get Opportunity Unstuck
NASA engineers are using a duplicate version of the Mars rovers here on Earth to try and test strategies Opportunity…
Mosaic of Titan’s Surface
While Cassini scientists are studying Titan's atmosphere, the Huygens team is analyzing its surface. The European Space Agency has released…
Titan’s Atmosphere is Looking Very Familiar
Scientists have had an opportunity study much of the data sent back by Cassini about the composition of Titan's atmosphere…
Podcast: NASA Tests a Solar Sail
Imagine a solar powered sail that could propel a space craft through the vacuum of space like a wind that…
Audio: NASA Tests a Solar Sail
Imagine a solar powered sail that could propel a space craft through the vacuum of space like a wind that…