‘Space’ Archives
How Big Is The International Space Station?
Later this afternoon Atlantis will blast off for it's final flight. The space shuttle will be delivering parts to the International Space Station. Now that the ISS is nearly complete, it's worth thinking about just how big it is. (Plus, remember that it's whipping around the Earth at 17,500 MPH!) Lifeslittlemysteries.com provides us with this [...]
Geeky Space Picture Of The Day: Aurora and Chicago
Aurora Borealis, not Aurora, IL. Soichi Noguchi tweeted this photo from the International Space Station. You can see Chicago right next to the dark area that is Lake Michigan. Just to the north is Milwaukee, and there's a smaller blob of lights just to the south of Chicago that I can only assume is Indianapolis.
Geeky Space Picture Of The Day: Oil Slick
NASA's Aqua satellite captured this image of the Gulf of Mexico on April 25, 2010 using its Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument. With the Mississippi Delta on the left, the silvery swirling oil slick from the April 20 explosion and subsequent sinking of the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform is highly visible. The [...]
Geeky Space Picture Of The Day: Rise To Prominence
Get it? Prominence? Who says I'm not funny... A full-disk multiwavelength extreme ultraviolet image of the sun taken by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) on March 30, 2010. False colors trace different gas temperatures. Reds are relatively cool (about 107,540 F); blues and greens are hotter (greater than 1,799,540 F). Credit: [...]
Geeky Space Picture Of The Day: Big Bada Boom
This image taken on March 24, 2010 by the Advanced Land Imager (ALI) aboard NASA's Earth Observing-1 satellite, reveals orange-red lava fountains, and hills of bubble-filled lava rocks called scoria, which are black, as is the lava flow extending to the northeast of Iceland's Eyjafjallajökull volcano. The image also shows white volcanic [...]
It Came From Outer Space!
Meteor Fragment From Wisconsin Fireball Discovered by Farmer: A small chunk of rock believed to be a fragment from a meteor that burst into a stunning fireball over Wisconsin Wednesday night was discovered by a farmer after it fell on the roof of his shed. The meteor fragment is peppered with gray, white and reddish minerals, though one side [...]
Homer Hickam Weighs In Obama’s Plan For NASA
President Obama is going to spend part of tax day down in Florida trying to pitch his idea of shutting NASA's manned spaceflight program down. Author and former astronaut trainer Homer Hickam says that only one group of people can stop the plan now... the astronauts. Dear Astronauts of the Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas: I just had to [...]
