Researchers from the University of Michigan working with NASA have developed a material that might add an extra layer of protection from space debris
This is the same type of thruster technology used on NASA Dawn spacecraft, which is currently studying the dwarf planet Ceres. Ion thrusters are considerably more efficient than conventional rocket motors.
The idea comes from a group working on advanced antenna technology at UCLA, in combination with NASA Jet propulsion laboratory.
Amazingly, this huge increase in signal strength will still run within the power limitations of NASA upcoming Mars 2020 rover:
The 2020 mission may well be NASA major precursor to the start of a manned mission,
#NASA confirms liquid water flows on Mars NASA has announced that it has discovered flowing liquid salt water on Mars during the Red planet summer months, in
NASA/JPL/University of Arizona) ur quest on Mars has been to ollow the water, in our search for life in the universe,
what wee long suspected, said John Grunsfeld, astronaut and associate administrator of NASA Science Mission Directorate in Washington,
NASA said. While scientists are yet able to determine where the water comes from, it appears to dry up in the planet fall season only to start up again the following Mars year.
NASA scientists noted they mined data going as far back as the Viking 1 an 2 landings in the mid-1970s,
MRO project scientist at NASA Jet propulsion laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California. t took multiple spacecraft over several years to solve this mystery,
lead scientist for NASA Mars Exploration Program at the agency headquarters in Washington. t seems that the more we study Mars,
NASA announced the discovery of evidence of an ancient ocean that covered 20 percent of Marssurface.
which consisted on leaves of"Outredgeous"red romaine lettuce grown in NASA's"Veggie"zero-gravity greenhouse,
is part of the space agency's effort to find ways to feed tomorrow's deep-space travelers.
According to NASA, crew morale is another factor in the experiment. Deep space missions, such as a mission to Mars, will mean small crews working in close confinement with very little to do for long periods of time a prime recipe for disaster.
and returned to Earth in October of last year for safety analysis at the Kennedy space center in Florida.
where they will be subjected to scientific analysis. According to NASA, the main concern is microbial contamination, but the results from the first crop have been positive.
In addition, NASA is working on how to increase the system's yield, so it produces more than a few mouthfuls at a time.
The existing record is NASA's High Power Electric Propulsion (Hipep) with 9, 600 seconds,
NASA wanted to use them in supersonic aircraft. The U s. military hoped they could be used in a new fighter jet.
Odd Effects of Kathmandu Temblor European space agency's (ESA) Sentinel-1a radar satellite passed over Kathmandu, Nepal, Wednesday (April 29.
and clouds over Everest, according to NASA. The April 23 photo was captured by Landsat 8, which is operated by NASA
and the United states Geological Society (USGS). The April 28 image was taken by NASA's Earth Observing-1 satellite.
Image Credit: NASA Earth Observatory) Emitted light Kathmandu Satellite Image-Emitted Light This satellite image shows the city of Kathmandu and its surrounding areas after the April 25 earthquake.
The Suomi National Polar-Orbiting Partnership satellite, operated by NASA and the National oceanic and atmospheric administration, detected a decrease in emitted light over Kathmandu, based on a comparison between images taken pre-earthquake, on April 22, 2015,
and after the earthquake, on April 26, 2015. The red and yellow colors indicate areas with the largest decrease in emitted light possibly because of electrical outages and damage to key infrastructure
according to NASA. Image Credit: Short-term Prediction Research and Transition (SPORT) team/Marshall Space flight Center) Nepal districts affected Satellite Photo of Nepal Districts After Earthquake This satellite image shows 11 districts in Nepal
according to NASA. Meteor showers occur when the Earth, on its orbital path through space, collides with particles from a comet or an asteroid.
NASA'S MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER in Huntsville, Alabama, will be livestreaming views of the meteor shower from 10 p m. EDT tomorrow to 2 a m. EDT on Thursday (Aug 13.
Meteor experts Bill Cooke, Danielle Moser and Rhiannon Blaauw, all from NASA Meteoroid Environment Office at the Marshall Space flight Center, will also provide onair commentary.
You can tune in to the NASA TV webcast on Space. com . If you miss the Perseids this time around,
by studying images captured by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (Hirise) camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO).
Observations by NASA's Curiosity rover and other spacecraft have shown that, billions of years ago, the Red planet was a relatively warm and wet world that could have supported microbial life, at least in some regions.
Scottish distiller Ballantine's, in partnership with Open Space agency James Parr, has designed the world's first whiskey glass optimized for drinking in the microgravity of space."
NASA confirms There's water on Mars, and it flows there today. In an eagerly anticipated news event, NASA revealed this morning the evidence of liquid, flowing seasonal water on the Red planet.
Water often signals life, so this new discovery gives hope to the search for life in our solar system.
Michael Meyer of the Mars Exploration Program at NASA explained, "We found the active process on Mars today that shows that water was a likelihood."
Mary Beth Wilhelm of NASA's Ames Research center explained that the evidence of water means many things,
"Metchev's team conducted a study with data from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE TO search for any thermal glow that such dust
"And more data from the European space agency's Herschel Space observatory reveal that 51 Eridani is surrounded also by a more distant and colder cometary belt, much like the Kuiper belt of comets beyond Neptune in the Solar system."
NASA's Kepler mission indirectly discovers planets by the loss of starlight when a planet blocks a star."
"says Mark Marley, an astrophysicist at NASAS Ames Research center r
#Black phosphorus surges ahead of graphene A Korean team of scientists tune BP's band gap to form a superior conductor,
but even a state-of-the-art humanoid such as NASA Robonaut has only 42 sensors in its hand and wrist.
developed together with researchers at Intelligent Fiber optic Systems Corp.,with support from NASA, Sept. 29 at the IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2015, in Hamburg, Germany.
#NASA Mars isolation experiment begins SIX people are about to shut themselves inside a dome in Hawaii for a year,
in the longest US isolation experiment yet aimed at helping NASA prepare for a pioneering journey to Mars. The crew includes a French astrobiologist, a German physicist and four Americans a pilot, an architect, a doctor/journalist and a soil
NASA current technology can send a robotic mission to the Red planet in eight months, and the space agency estimates that a human mission would take between one and three years.
With all that time spent in a cramped space without access to fresh air, food,
The US space agency is studying how these scenarios play out On earth in a program called Hawaii Space exploration Analog
which NASA hopes to reach sometime in the 2030s. The first HI-SEAS experiment involved studies about cooking on Mars,
NASA is spending $us1. 2 million ($a1. 67 million) on these simulations, and has received just funding of another million for three more in the coming years according to principal investigator Kim Binsted. hat is very cheap for space research,
according to Jay Famiglietti of NASA's Jet propulsion laboratory in California. The current drought in the Sierra nevada,
The team has given three of their propulsion systems to the NASA Glenn Research center in Ohio, where they are running more tests. t up to them
Escuti is continuing to work on new applications with direct support from the National Science Foundation and the Jet propulsion laboratory
#Liquid Water Likely Flows On the Salty Hills of Mars It almost as if our moon turned blood red last night to herald NASA latest Red planet news. At 11:30 EDT,
NASA Headquarters will hold a press conference to discuss their most recent finding: new data that suggests liquid water exists on Mars even today.
In 1972, NASA Mariner 9 spacecraft discovered evidence of erosion features on Mars that implicated the presence of water at some point in the planet past.
the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) aboard the European space agency Mars Express spacecraft took a photo of a water ice crater 35 meters in diameter at the Martian north pole.
Finally, in March of this year, NASA and colleagues at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) uncovered evidence of a massive ancient ocean that once covered almost half of Mars northern hemisphere.
but even a state-of-the-art humanoid such as NASA's Robonaut has only 42 sensors in its hand and wrist,
. and with support from NASA. It incorporates commercially available fiber Bragg grating sensors, which detect strain by measuring shifts in the wavelength of light propagating through optical fiber.
The Hoope idea originated from a NASA camp where Damel team bested 80 other scientists in developing an impactful product.
Most of the time, communications are approved officially by NASA. For example, schoolchildren from the UK are scheduled to talk to Britain's first fully fledged astronaut
NASA finds evidence of liquid water flowing on the surface of Mars NASA told us it was announcing something big today,
the space agency says images from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) have revealed compelling evidence of liquid brines flowing across the planet's surface.
NASA scientists have known for some time about the appearance of gullies or dark streaks on the surface of Mars during warmer weather
the new evidence means NASA is now almost certain. What's changed is that the agency's scientists have managed to identify
the NASA team has been able to link these salts to areas where the slope gullies
According to the new model put together by the space agency the summer months on Mars see a shallow subsurface flow of briny water coming down from the planet's canyons and crater walls.
"said NASA's John Grunsfeld in a press statement.""This is a significant development, as it appears to confirm that water
Additional information about the launch is available at https://blogs. nasa. gov/spacex/2015/03/31/spacex-targeting-april-13-for-station-resupply-launch/.
It is staffed currently by two astronauts from NASA, three cosmonauts from Russia and an astronaut from the European space agency.
information necessary for early warning,"said study co-author Susan Owen of NASA's Jet propulsion laboratory, Pasadena, California a
autobiographical memory helps build an individual's personal history. 2 Robonaut 2 is a humanoid robot resulting from the Robonaut program, a close collaboration between NASA and DARPA.
and microscale up to large scales and even structures that NASA would deploy into space, "Paulino said."
as well as NASA's orbiting GALEX and WISE and the European space agency's Herschel, the team found that the energy output is dropping over 21 different wavelengths,
Autonomy in the sea The system is similar to one that Williams developed for NASA following the loss of the Mars Observer, a spacecraft that, days before its scheduled insertion into Marsorbit in 1993,
lost contact with NASA. here were human operators On earth who were experts in diagnosis and repair,
NASA realized they needed systems that could reason at the cognitive level like engineers, but that were onboard the spacecraft.
Williams, who at the time was working at NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER, was tasked with developing an autonomous system that would enable spacecraft to diagnose
The system was tested successfully on NASA Deep space 1 probe, which performed an asteroid flyby in 1999. hat was the first chance to demonstrate goal-directed autonomy in deep space,
A unique imaging technology being developed at the Morgridge Institute for Research is providing NASA with an interesting
This technology is included in the NASA PERISCOPE project, which seeks to illuminate some of the more than 200 suspected lunar caves lurking under skylights.
and is beginning a second phase of field trials funded by a two-year, $500, 000 NASA grant.
NASA has been interested in lunar subsurface exploration ever since the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter discovered cave skylights in 2009.
The NASA Jet propulsion laboratory in Pasadena, California is developing robotic rovers that could investigate such caves.
#New, Ultrathin Optical devices Shape Light in Exotic Ways Researchers have developed innovative flat, optical lenses as part of a collaboration between NASA Jet propulsion laboratory and the California Institute of technology, both in Pasadena, California.
but even a state-of-the-art humanoid such as NASA Robonaut has only 42 sensors in its hand and wrist.
developed together with researchers at Intelligent Fiber optic Systems Corp.,with support from NASA, Sept. 29 at the IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2015, in Hamburg, Germany.
#Whopping Galaxy cluster Spotted with Help of NASA Telescopes Astronomers have discovered a giant gathering of galaxies in a very remote part of the universe, thanks to NASA Spitzer space telescope and Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE.
said co-author Peter Eisenhardt, the project scientist for WISE at NASA Jet propulsion laboratory in Pasadena, California.
Benner, who works with NASA trying to find life on other planets, suggests that synthetic biology might also improve the ability to detect new earthly life forms. aybe they exist on earth,
#Nasa confirms water on Mars, increasing chance of alien life Mars has long been known as our barren sister planet but today,
NASA scientists have announced they have found flowing water on the red desert planet. NASA and the Nature Geoscience journal released their findings on a Live Stream announcement stating that the long,
dark streaks found on Mars are a telltale sign of still flowing water on the Martian surface.
NASA scientists theorize the liquid water runs down canyons and cater walls during the summer months on Mars. Eventually these dark streaks dry up as the planet's surface cools in autumn.
#Hendo's hoverboard technology could help NASA control satellites Last October, we rode a hoverboard.
Arx Pax is partnering up with NASA to explore how its technology could be used to move around tiny satellites in space using the MFA technology.
Arx Pax plans to co-develop a prototype with NASA over the course of the next couple of years
#NASA test-fires shuttle engine for SLS rocket A former space shuttle engine roared to life Thursday in Mississippi, billowing steam from a Mississippi stand during a nearly nine-minute test firing.
The test shown live on NASA TV was the third of four preparing upgraded shuttle engines to lift NASA Space Launch System exploration rocket,
The agency is targeting a first launch of the 322-foot SLS rocket and an uncrewed Orion capsule in 2018 from Kennedy space center launch pad 39b.
and NASA plans to restart production of the RS-25. Two stretched versions of shuttle solid rocket boosters also will help lift the SLS rocket early in flight, for at least the first two launches,
the Rice team installed it on a mobile laboratory used during NASA's DISCOVER-AQ campaign, which analyzed pollution on the ground and from the air last September.
You can watch the launch live here on Space. com, courtesy of NASA TV and Spacex, beginning at 3: 30 a m. EST (0830 GMT.
The launch which will kick off Spacex's fifth contracted supply mission to the space station for NASA was targeted for Tuesday (Jan 6),
NASA officials said. Dragon will stay at the orbiting lab for a month, and then return to Earth for a splashdown in the Pacific ocean.
Spacex holds a $1. 6 billion contract with NASA to complete 12 cargo runs to the space station.
The space agency also signed a $1. 9 billion deal with Virginia-based Orbital Sciences Corp. to fly eight such missions using the company's Cygnus spacecraft and Antares rocket.
Originally a collaboration between Rackspace and NASA, the Openstack cloud computing software platform is the most prominent open-source project to emerge in recent years.
Now, with funding from the ESA (European space agency), it looks like the University of Birmingham is on the forefront again of manufacturing technology,
"For high-power SEP modules such as those that Nasa envisions for transporting cargo to Mars, it will be critical to efficiently process
#NASA Microsoft collaboration will allow scientists to#work on Mars#NASA and Microsoft have teamed up to develop software called Onsight,
Developed by NASA Jet propulsion laboratory in Pasadena, Calif, . Onsight will give scientists a means to plan and,
program executive for the Mars science laboratory mission at NASA Headquarters in Washington. t fundamentally changes our perception of Mars,
and other applications in support of NASA journey to Mars. JPL manages the Mars science laboratory Project for NASA Science Mission Directorate in Washington,
#NASA Cubesat initiative aids in testing of technology for solar sails in space With help from NASA, a small research satellite to test technology for in-space solar propulsion launched into space May 20 aboard an Atlas v
which also is carrying NASA Materials Exposure and Technology Innovation in Space (METIS) investigation that will expose about 100 different materials samples to the space environment for more than 200 days.
NASA is considering the use of solar sails on future exploration mission secondary payloads and data from this mission will advance understanding of this form of propulsion.
NASA selected Lightsail as part of the agency Cubesat Launch Initiative, which provides opportunities for small satellites to fly as auxiliary payloads on planned missions.
It was made possible through agreements between NASA the Air force Space and Missile Systems Center and the National Reconnaissance Office to work together on Cubesat integration and launch opportunities.
As part of its agreement with NASA, the Planetary Society will provide the agency a report on outcomes and scientific findings.
and government institutions around the United states. NASA will announce the next call for proposals in August 2015
#NASA Chandra captures x-ray echoes pinpointing distant neutron star Astronomers using NASA Chandra X-ray Observatory have discovered the largest and brightest set of rings from X-ray light echoes ever observed.
NASA Marshall Space flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. manages the Chandra program for the agency Science Mission Directorate in Washington.
Sponsored by the National Science Foundation and NASA the research will be published as the cover story in Volume 54, Issue 23 of the journal Angewandte Chemie International Edition.
who is also director of the NSF-NASA Center for Chemical Evolution and associate director of the Parker H. Petit Institute of Bioengineering and Bioscience,
while also having applications in nanotechnology. his research was supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the NASA Astrobiology Program under the NSF Center for Chemical Evolution (CHE-1004570).
and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation or NASA. CITATION:
The first version of the sounder is currently operational on the NOAA/NASA Suomi-National Polar-orbiting Partnership (Suomi NPP) satellite, a bridge between NOAA's legacy polar satellite fleet,
NASA's Earth observing missions and NOAA JPSS constellation. ris is proven technology that is already providing high-quality environmental data to the meteorological and climate communities on Suomi NPP,
Google street view Maps Urban Air pollution Like Never Before Aclima equipped three Google street view vehicles for the Denver pilot program for a month-long system test during the DISCOVER-AQ study conducted by NASA and EPA.
The mystery test vehicle essentially a technology test bed is designed to orbit the Earth and then land like one of NASA's old shuttles.
It is 29 feet long about one-fourth the size of a NASA shuttle. The longest X-37b flight lasted about 675 days;
NASA has a materials experiment aboard, while the Planetary Society is tagging along with a solar sail demo.
an Air force spokesman, told Space. com.'The Air force Rapid Capabilities Office will also host a number of advance materials onboard the X-37b for Nasa to study the durability of various materials in the space environment,'Hoyler added.
The X-program has bounced between several federal agencies, Nasa among them, since 1999. The plane has been in space for a total of 674 days, far more than its two previous flights
Previous attempts to test solar sail technology, such as Nasa Nanosail-D2 in 2010, were less successful in this latter part-the sail didn't unfurl properly,
it is also being adapted by Nasa to analyse brain pressure levels in astronauts to help tackle space-related visual problems and sickness.
'Although the researchers are already working closely with Nasa and developing relations with the UK military,
#Nasa spots most luminous galaxy in the universe-shining with the light of more than 300 TRILLION suns A dazzling galaxy that shines with the light of more than 300 trillion suns has been discovered by astronomers.
'said Chao-Wei Tsai of Nasa's Jet propulsion laboratory in Pasadena, California, 'This dazzling light may be from the main growth spurt of the galaxy's black hole.'
The discovery was made by Nasa as it was combing through data from its Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (Wise),
#Nasa joins US government project to create'Google for the deep web'that could uncover cyber criminals,
Nasa has revealed it is joining a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) project to scour content on this so-called dark net.
'said Nasa. The Internet contains a vast trove of information-sometimes called the'Deep Web'-that isn't indexed by search engines:
According to Nasa, scientists could also use it to search for images and data from spacecraft.
for example, help catalog the vast amounts of data NASA spacecraft deliver on a daily basis.'We're developing next-generation search technologies that understand people, places,
The technology could be applied to large NASA data centers such as the Physical oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center,
which makes NASA's ocean and climate data accessible and meaningful. Memex would make PDF documents more easily searchable
Expedition 38 Commander Oleg Kotov and Flight engineer Sergey Ryazanskiy of the Russian federal space agency installed the cameras on the hull of the station's Zvezda Service Module.
The Russian space agency, Roscosmos, agreed to host the cameras on the $100 billion station for Urthecast
Nasa has toyed with the idea before; last year, they unveiled the Mars Ecopoiesis Test bed concept,
#Nasa's'impossible'EMDRIVE propulsion DOES work A controversial design for a new, advanced type of space travel received a boost as German scientists confirmed that it does in fact work.
'While there has been some scepticism surrounding the EMDRIVE, in April Nasa released results of their own test
with Nasa engineers reportedly posting on its forum. The announcement will add momentum to developing a working EMDRIVE,
But earlier this year, Nasa built an EMDRIVE that works in conditions like those in space
according to users on forum Nasaspaceflight. com. A number of those discussing the plan on the technical forum claim to be Nasa engineers who are involved in the project.
Last year, Pennsylvania-based scientist Guido Fetta and his team at Nasa Eagleworks published a paper that demonstrates that a similar engine works on the same principles.
But Nasa's latest test is claimed to have shown otherwise.''Nasa has tested successfully their Emdrive in a hard vacuum the first time any organisation has reported such a successful test,
'the researchers wrote.''To this end, Nasa Eagleworks has nullified now the prevailing hypothesis that thrust measurements were due to thermal convection.'
'However, Nasa's official site says that:''There are many'absurd'theories that have become reality over the years of scientific research.'
'But for the near future, warp drive remains a dream, 'in a post updated earlier this year
which also involves the NASA Jet propulsion Lab, University of Maryland, the University of Michigan, and the University of Pennsylvania.
which include NASA and Virginia Tech, to print such scaffolds and other medical-grade devices and use them in real-world settings,
NASA Drone Advances Unmanned Craft A huge, 10-engine drone dubbed"Greased Lightning"successfully completed a series of flight tests recently,
Earlier this spring, NASA ENGINEERS flew the so-called GL-10 (the"GL"stands for"Greased Lightning")prototype drone at a military base located about two hours away from the agency's Langley Research center In virginia.
NASA describes the drone as quieter than a neighbor using a gas-powered-motor lawn mower in the yard next door.
NASA ENGINEERS will continue to tweak the design of the GL-10 drone, according to agency officials,
Sponsored by the National Science Foundation and NASA, the research will be published as the cover story in Issue 23 of the journal Angewandte Chemie International Edition.
added Hud, who is also director of the NSF-NASA Center for Chemical Evolution and associate director of the Parker H. Petit Institute of Bioengineering and Bioscience,
This research was supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the NASA Astrobiology Program under the NSF Center for Chemical Evolution (CHE-1004570.
and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation or NASA l
Chanda research was funded by the university and grants from the Florida Space Institute/NASA. He was awarded just a $300,
Jaguar land rover is investigating a method already used by NASA to develop a pilot concentration skills
as identified on NASA's Human Research Roadmap. With one probe placed on the patient's skin,
Noninvasive approaches to move and ultimately expel kidney stones from the body provide medical capabilities needed by NASA and other international space agencies.
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