Solar System
Powerful Mars Orbiter Directs Opportunity to Clays and Hydrated Minerals
[/caption] NASA is using its powerful science surveyor orbiting more than 241 kilometers above Mars to target the surface explorations…
Did Iapetus Have Its Own Mini Moon?
[/caption] There’s a new theory for why Saturn’s moon Iapetus looks like a walnut. The moon has a mysterious large…
Asteroid Scheila Sprouts a Tail and Coma
[/caption] When is an asteroid not an asteroid? When it turns out to be a comet, of course. Has this…
How Are You Celebrating the Year of the Solar System?
There are a lot of solar system space missions coming up, plus – as always – a plethora of astronomical…
Apollo 12 anniversary celebrated at Martian Crater as Opportunity blazes ahead
[/caption] NASA recently celebrated the anniversary of the historic Apollo 12 lunar landing mission with another history making craft -…
Venus Has a Moon?
[/caption] Astronomers have been busy trying to determine the spin period and composition of Venus' moon. December 8, 2010, results…
Cassini Instruments Offline Until Nov. 24
[/caption] NASA announced that the Cassini spacecraft in orbit around Saturn will have its suite of scientific cameras offline until…
Eyes On The Solar System
[/caption] NASA’s beta version of Eyes on the Solar System, built by JPL and Caltech, offers a neat way of…
Mysterious Ribbon at Edge of Solar System is Changing
A year ago, researchers from the IBEX mission – NASA’s Interstellar Boundary Explorer – announced the discovery of an unexpected…
An Alien’s View of Our Solar System
We have just begun to try and image distant solar systems around other stars, and hopefully our techniques and technology…