ESA’s weather satellite Metop-B in Metop series launched on 17th September is performing well in its polar orbit. ESA’s recent press release states that satellite on its way towards replacing the ageing Metop-A as prime operational satellite in polar orbit, after
Vitali Nevski (Belarus) and Artyom Novichonok (Russia) on CCD images obtained on September 21, 2012 discovered new sundiving comet with a 0.4-m f/3 Santel reflector of the International Scientific Optical Network (ISON) near Kislovodsk, Russia. The new
The ‘chorus’ phenomenon is well known by scientists, which is a cluster of brief, rising-frequency tones that sound like the chorus of birds singing at sunrise. Energetic particles in the magnetosphere emit radio waves that are audible to humans. Recently launched
Temperature on mars is cooler than what it might appear in those high-resolution pictures sent by curiosity. Weather station data aboard Mars Science Laboratory reveals that desert-like terrain of Gale crater which resembles barren lands of American southwest, is
The second Metop satellite was launched yesterday from the Baikonur cosmodrome, in Kazakhstan, atop a Russian Soyuz launcher. Metop-B will ensure the continuity of the weather and atmospheric monitoring service provided by its predecessor Metop-A, which has been
In July 1965, Mariner 4 – NASA’s first spacecraft to fly by Mars – sent back its first images to Earth. Since then, dozens of spacecraft have been sent to explore the cold red planet. Consistently, the planet has raised far more questions than answers. In 1996,
NASA’s Laser Communication Relay Demonstration (LCRD) – launching in 2017 – is a major step in the technological development of high data rate optical systems. This could move data up to 100X faster than conventional radio frequency transmission. Here is latest video
The potentially hazardous asteroid 2012 QE50, discovered on 28 Aug. 2012 by the Catalina Sky Survey in Arizona, will approach our planet with a minimum distance of 31.5 lunar distances (13 millions of km) on October 9, 2012. There is no serious threat for our
Many scientists think that long ago, Mars once had a denser atmosphere, cloudy skies that supported liquid water flowing over the surface. For some reason, most of the Martian atmosphere was lost to space long ago and the thin wispy atmosphere no longer allows water
ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft captured images of 120 km wide Hadley Crater which revealed there has been several subsequent impacts within the crater leading to formation of further craters, that are up to 2600 m deep than surrounding surface. This observation has
