Asteroids
Dramatic 3 D Imagery Showcases Vesta’s Pockmarked, Mountainous and Groovy Terrain
[/caption] Try not to plummet off a steep crater cliff or be buried under a landslide while gazing at the…
Finding NEEMO: NASA’s Underwater Simulations Focus on Human Asteroid Mission
[/caption] The sight of NASA mission specialists performing mission training underwater has been fairly common over the years. On October…
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Rheasilvia – Super Mysterious South Pole Basin at Vesta is Named after Romulus and Remus Roman Mother
http://youtu.be/tYiOOScjPFI Video caption: Rheasilvia Impact Basin and Vesta shape model. This false-color shape model video of the giant asteroid Vesta…
Did Asteroid Baptistina Kill The Dinosaurs? Think Other WISE…
[/caption] Once upon a time, about 65 million years ago, scientists hypothesize a sizable asteroid crashed into Earth and contributed…
Space Spectacular — Rotation Movies of Vesta
http://youtu.be/FU65KCwxA6A Take us into orbit Mr. Sulu! The Dawn science team has released two spectacular rotation movies of the entire…
Human Mission to an Asteroid: Asteroid Field Testing
How will we work and set up a base camp on an asteroid? NASA is currently doing some field work…
Human Mission to an Asteroid: The Orion MPCV
Back in 2007, when the Constellation program to return to the Moon was still the program of record for NASA,…
Human Mission to an Asteroid: Why Should NASA Go?
Imagine, if you can, the first time human eyes see Earth as a distant, pale blue dot. We’ve dreamed of…
NASA Unveils Thrilling First Full Frame Images of Vesta from Dawn
[/caption] NASA has just released the first full frame images of Vesta- and they are thrilling! The new images unveil…
New Impact Rate Count Lays Nemesis Theory to Rest
[/caption] From a Max Planck Institute for Astronomy press release: Is the Earth more likely or less likely to be…