Veteran Crew to Make Year-Long Station Flight
NASA and the Russian Federal Space Agency have named veteran spacefarers Scott Kelly and Mikhail Kornienko for a one-year mission aboard the International Space Station in 2015.
This mission, launching in spring 2015 from Kazakhstan, will collect scientific data important to future human exploration of our solar system.
A Year After Launch, Curiosity Rover Busy on Mars
The NASA Mars rover Curiosity began its flight to Mars on Nov. 26, 2011, from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., tucked inside the Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft.
A year after launch and 16 weeks since its dramatic landing on target in Gale Crater, Curiosity has returned more than 23,000 raw images, driven 1,696 feet and begun helping researchers better understand the area's environmental history.
Call for Feedback as We Prepare the Next NASA.gov
We are starting on the next version of what NASA.gov looks like and want to know what you think.
Do you like something you've seen? Is something missing? How do you interact with NASA online? Where else do you get your NASA news from? We have set up an online forum at Ideascale to take your feedback. You can offer ideas of your own or comment and vote on others' suggestions. We will take all the data and do some prototyping, then see what you think.
Cassini Finds a Video Gamers' Paradise at Saturn
You could call this "Pac-Man, the Sequel." Scientists with NASA's Cassini mission have spotted a second feature shaped like the 1980s video game icon in the Saturn system, this time on the moon Tethys -- the first was found on Mimas in 2010. The new pattern appears in thermal data obtained by Cassini's composite infrared spectrometer, with warmer areas making up the Pac-Man shape.
Spacecraft Monitoring Martian Dust Storm
A Martian dust storm that NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has been tracking since last week has also produced atmospheric changes detectable by rovers on Mars.
"For the first time since the Viking missions of the 1970s, we are studying a regional dust storm both from orbit and with a weather station on the surface," said Rich Zurek, chief Mars scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
