Like a comet, the solar system has a tail. NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) has for the first time mapped out the structure of this tail, which is shaped like a four-leaf clover.
Wednesday, July 10, 2013
NASA Satellite Provides First View of the Solar System's Tail
Like a comet, the solar system has a tail. NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) has for the first time mapped out the structure of this tail, which is shaped like a four-leaf clover.
Launching Alphasat
Europe's largest and most powerful telecom satellite is just two weeks from launch, and the team is busy preparing for its send-off in Kourou
Original Source
NASA, Space Station Partners Announce Future Crew Members
NASA
and its international partners have appointed three International Space
Station crew members to round out future expeditions to the orbiting
laboratory.
Egyptian Dust Plume, Red Sea
NASA Invites Media to View Orion Heat Shield Near Boston
NASA
officials will visit Textron Defense Systems in Wilmington, Mass.,
Wednesday, July 17, to view progress being made on the heat shield for
the agency's Orion spacecraft.
Probing vegetation
Two NASA Spacecraft Begin New Exploration Assignments
Two NASA spacecraft have been assigned a new mission after successfully completing their original science objectives earlier this year.
SOFIA Observatory Peers Into Heart of Orion Nebula
A
new image from NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy
(SOFIA) shows a complex distribution of interstellar dust and stars in
the Orion nebula.
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