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August 7, 2009 Saturn to Pull Celestial Houdini on August 11In 1918, magician extraordinaire Harry Houdini created a sensation when he made a 10,000 pound elephant disappear before a mystified audience of over 5,200 at New York's famed Hippodrome theatre. |
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August 7, 2009 More Testing Before Driving on MarsA review on Aug. 6 of test results to date yielded a decision to conduct further checkouts in an augmented testing set-up on Earth before beginning to send driving commands to Spirit for attempting to get out of the loose soil where the rover has partially embedded itself. |
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August 6, 2009 Triple Asteroid System Triples Observers' InterestRadar imaging at NASA's Goldstone Solar System Radar on June 12 and 14, 2009, revealed that near-Earth asteroid 1994 CC is a triple system. |
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August 6, 2009 Data From Newest Ocean Satellite Ready for Their 'Close-up'Fully calibrated, validated data from the NASA-French Space Agency Ocean Surface Topography Mission/Jason-2 satellite are now available, following a year of evaluation. |
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August 6, 2009 Kepler Detects Atmosphere of Hot WorldNASA's planet-hunter Kepler has detected a known planet, demonstrating the telescope's extraordinary capabilities. |
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August 6, 2009 Rover Confirms Meteorite on MarsComposition measurements by NASA's Opportunity rover confirm that this rock on the Martian surface is an iron-nickel meteorite. |
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August 5, 2009 NASA's Spitzer Sees The Cosmos Through 'Warm' Infrared EyesNASA's Spitzer Space Telescope is starting a second career and taking its first shots of the cosmos since warming up. |
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August 4, 2009 Aura Marks Five Years of Sky-High Atmosphere ResearchFive years ago, NASA launched the Aura satellite to study changes in our life-sustaining atmosphere. Look at some of its greatest findings to date. |
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August 3, 2009 NASA's Moon Mapper Beholds HomeThis false-color image of Earth was taken by the Moon Mineralogy Mapper, one of two NASA instruments onboard the Indian Space Research Organization's Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft. |
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July 31, 2009 Possible Meteorite Imaged by Opportunity RoverThe Opportunity rover has eyed an odd-shaped, dark rock, about 0.6 meters (2 feet) across on the surface of Mars, which may be a meteorite. |
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