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Dawn Mission Status: Spacecraft Tests Ion Engine
NASA’s Dawn spacecraft successfully completed the first test of its ion propulsion system over the weekend. The system is vital to the success of Dawn’s 8-year, 4.9 billion-kilometer journey to asteroid Vesta and dwarf planet Ceres.
Caltech’s Ingersoll Receives Achievement Award
Caltech’s Ingersoll Receives Achievement Award October 9, 2007 (Source: California Institute of Technology) Andrew P. Ingersoll PASADENA, Calif.– Andrew P. Ingersoll of the California Institute of Technology has been awarded the 2007 Gerard P. Kuiper Prize by the Division for…
North and South Platte Rivers, Nebraska
Lake McConaughy and a tan-and-green patchwork of thousands of agricultural fields dominate this astronaut photo of western Nebraska and northeastern Colorado. The astronaut who shot this view was looking towards the east-northeast, focusing on the thin, green lines of the…
Cassini Is on the Trail of a Runaway Mystery
Cassini Is on the Trail of a Runaway Mystery October 8, 2007 (Source: Jet Propulsion Laboratory) “The Other Side of Iapetus” Click here to see the Sept. 10, 2007 Iapetus Flyby page for more related images. NASA scientists are on…
Mississippi River Delta
Time, weather, and human intervention have all shaped the Mississippi Delta in Louisiana, a giant bird’s foot shape protruding into the Gulf of Mexico. The Mississippi River deposits sediment into the ocean, and over 25 years, NASA Landsat satellites observed…
Drought in Moldova
The impact of the drought on plants in Moldova and parts of Ukraine and Romania is illustrated by this pair of images. The images are vegetation anomaly images, which indicate how quickly plants were taking in light and growing.
Hengduan Mountains, China
In southwestern China, just northeast of the borders of India and Myanmar, lies a mountain range known as the Hengduan Shan (sometimes Heng-tuan Shan). The mountains run generally north-south with a slight tilt toward the west at their northern end.…
Cassini Significant Events 09/26/07 – 10/02/07
Cassini Significant Events 09/26/07 – 10/02/07 October 5, 2007 (Source: Cassini Project) The most recent spacecraft telemetry was acquired on Monday, Oct. 1, from the Madrid tracking complex. The Cassini spacecraft is in an excellent state of health and all…
Astronomers Use Hubble and Keck to Identify Dwarf Galaxy
A team of astronomers at the University of California at Santa Barbara report that they have resolved a dwarf galaxy 6 billion light-years away. Weighing only 1/100 as much as our Milky Way Galaxy, the dwarf is much smaller than…
Dust Plume off Mauritania
A thick plume of dust blew off the coast of Mauritania in western Africa on October 2, 2007. In this image, the dust varies in color from nearly white to medium tan. The dust plume is easier to see over…
Capitol Reef National Park, Utah
Sixty million years of erosion have exposed folded layers of rock.
Human Demands on Earth’s Plants
From the food we eat, to the lumber for our houses, to the fuel in our cooking fires, humans all over the world are dependent on plants. Among the many ecological uncertainties confronting us today is whether the productivity of…
Star Cluster Bursts into Life in New Hubble Image
Thousands of sparkling young stars are nestled within the giant nebula NGC 3603. This stellar “jewel box” is one of the most massive young star clusters in the Milky Way Galaxy. NGC 3603 is a prominent star-forming region in the…
Oblique View of Dinosaur National Monument
In the northwest corner of Colorado, the west-flowing Yampa River meets the south-flowing Green River, which runs into Utah. Stretches of both river canyons upstream and downstream from the junction make up Dinosaur National Monument. The monument takes its name,…
Titan Flyby – Oct. 2, 2007
The Cassini spacecraft has been moving progressively over Titan’s southern hemisphere and flew by Titan on Oct. 2, 2007.
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