Members of NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft team will host a Science Chat at 1 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 19, on humanity’s farthest planetary flyby, scheduled to occur Jan. 1 when the spacecraft encounters a mysterious object in the Kuiper Belt nicknamed “Ultima Thule.”
Author: jappe
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ICESat-2 Lifts Off to Study Earth's Changing Ice
A Delta II rocket launches with NASA’s ICESat-2 onboard, Saturday, Sept. 15, 2018, from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
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Frosted crater
Space Science Image of the Week: Bright carbon dioxide ice clings to the walls of a crater in the south polar region of Mars -
Copernicus Sentinel maps Florence hurricane flood
Making landfall in the US state of North Carolina on 14 September, Hurricane Florence is causing widespread damage and flooding. The Copernicus Sentinel-1 radar mission is being used to map affected areas.
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Juno Captures Elusive 'Brown Barge'
A long, brown oval known as a “brown barge” in Jupiter’s South Equatorial Belt is captured in this color-enhanced image from NASA’s Juno spacecraft.
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New kid on the block picks up relay for ozone
For more than 20 years, changes in ozone over Antarctica have been carefully monitored by a succession of European satellites. This important long-term record is now being added to by the Copernicus Sentinel-5P mission, which is dedicated to atmospheric monitoring.
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Aeolus timelapse
A look back on preparations for the 22 August liftoff of ESA’s Aeolus wind satellite -
Northeast Ethiopia
Earth observation image of the week: Sentinel-1 takes us over Semera in northeast Ethiopia -
Success! Final Orion Parachute Tests Completed
NASA completed the final test to qualify Orion’s parachute system for flights with astronauts, an important milestone on the path to send humans on missions to deep space.
