Posts Tagged ‘ Solar System ’

Watch the Moon Age 4.5 Billion Years in 3 Minutes

Self-explanatory, and awesome. From Goddard Multimedia NASA The moon may seem barren and boring, but each of those craters has a story, the story of an awesome space collision. Over its 4.5 billion year life, the moon has had an awful lot of those, turning it into the pockmarked celestial body we know and love [ READ MORE ]

Incredible Images of Mars

It’s well known I’m a space geek, and these latest images from the ESA’s Mars Express blew me away. Taken by the 9 year old Mars satellite, the images provide amazing detail of our planetary cousin. Click the photos to see them large. Via Space Fellowship: New images from ESA’s Mars Express show the Syrtis [ READ MORE ]

Voyager: Exiting the Solar System

I’ve posted about the Voyager spacecraft before, but a recent NPR segment re-captured my interest. Indeed one of the most amazing achievements of mankind, the Voyager probes were launched in the 70s, and Voyager I is speeding toward the very edge of our solar system’s heliosphere. Beyond that, the spacecraft will enter interstellar space, a [ READ MORE ]

What Exoplanets Might Really Look Like

Via Wired Science: Early in December, astronomers confirmed the existence of the first known world beyond the Solar System that exists in a cozy, habitable zone around its sun-like star. It’s too soon to say whether the planet, called Kepler-22b, has a rocky, watery or gassy surface. Nevertheless, NASA used some artistic license to render [ READ MORE ]

Europa

What’s cooler than a vacation to Europe? A probe sent to Europa, one of Jupiter’s 60+ moons, and possibly a celestial body in our solar system that could harbor life. Scientists have for years wondered about the strange, complex surface textures of this moon. Slightly smaller than Earth’s Moon, Europa is primarily made of silicate [ READ MORE ]

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