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Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Taking on Titan! Carrie Anderson
True life story of Carrie Anderson. When she was little girl she dreamed of becoming an astronomer. Now, as a space scientist at NASA GODDARD Space Flight Center, Carrie studies the atmosphere on Titan: one of Saturn's moons, second largest moon in the solar system, just behind moon Ganymede, Jupiter's follower. Let's see what Carrie want us to hear..
Monday, December 27, 2010
WISE Sees an Explosion of Infrared Light
WISE - Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer saw a circular rainbow around an exploded star. When massive stars die, they explode in BIG blasts, called supernovae, which send out shock waves. The shock waves sweep up and heat surrounding gas and dust, creating supernova remnants like the one pictured here. The supernova in IC 433 happened somewhere between 5000 and 10000 years ago. More about this topic on www.nasa.gov.
This oddly colorful nebula is the supernova remnant IC 443 as seen by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA
Sunday, December 26, 2010
New Topographic Map of Moon
Let's first see how LOLA (Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter) works. LOLA sends a pattern of five laser pulses to the lunar surface, and computes distance and elevation by measuring how long takes for the pulses to return. Credit: NASA/Goddard/Chris Meaney
Now check new topographic map comparing to an old one - much better!
Expedition 26 Holiday Message!
The Expedition 26 crew sends holiday greetings to Earth from the International Space Station. Watch...
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