Astronauts making one last house call to Hubble
(AP) -- The Hubble Space Telescope is about to get one last house call. And never before have the risks been higher.
Space Exploration
May 7, 2009
2
0
Page 17 - News tagged with scientific instrument
New Sun-Watching Instrument to Monitor Sunlight Fluctuations
(PhysOrg.com) -- During the Maunder Minimum, a period of diminished solar activity between 1645 and 1715, sunspots were rare on the face of the sun, sometimes disappearing entirely for months to years. At the same time, Earth ...
Space Exploration
Mar 23, 2009
3
0
A new neutrino laboratory at the bottom of the Mediterranean for probing sea and sky
The Laboratoire Sous-marin Provence Méditerranée (LSPM) lies 40 km off the coast of Toulon, at a depth of 2,450 m, inaccessible even to sunlight. Through this national research platform run by the CNRS in collaboration ...
Quantum Physics
Feb 24, 2023
0
59
The mission to decipher a mysterious aerosol layer above Himalayan monsoon clouds
For Stephan Borrmann, a day of high altitude detective work begins early. He wakes at about 05:30am in a hotel in the outskirts of Kathmandu, Nepal. After a quick breakfast, he and his team are driven to the city's airport. ...
Environment
Nov 19, 2020
0
5
Video shows a meteoroid skipping off Earth's atmosphere
Here's something we don't see very often: an Earth-grazing meteoroid.
Astronomy
Sep 29, 2020
2
1742
NASA finds strong storms in developing Tropical Storm Mekkhala
After Tropical Depression 07W formed close to the western Philippines, it moved away and strengthened into a tropical storm in the South China Sea. NASA's Terra satellite provided a look at the strength of the storms that ...
Environment
Aug 10, 2020
0
5
NASA infrared data confirms depression became Tropical Storm Elida
After Tropical Depression 09E formed near the coast of southwestern Mexico, infrared data from NASA's Aqua satellite helped confirm its transition to a tropical storm.
Environment
Aug 10, 2020
0
11
NASA satellite gives a hello to tropical storm Dolly
During the morning of June 23, the fourth system in the Northern Atlantic Ocean was a subtropical depression. By the afternoon, the subtropical depression took on tropical characteristics and was renamed Dolly. NASA's Terra ...
Environment
Jun 23, 2020
0
7
NASA catches formation and final fate of Eastern Pacific's Tropical Depression 1E
The Eastern Pacific Ocean's hurricane season may not officially start until mid-May, but the first tropical cyclone of the season formed over the weekend of April 25 and 26. NASA's Aqua satellite provided an infrared look ...
Environment
Apr 27, 2020
1
3
ESA Mission Control adjusts to coronavirus conditions
Responsible for spacecraft orbiting Earth, the Sun and exploring the Solar System, teams at ESA's ESOC mission control deal with in-flight challenges every day, from faulty hardware, problematic software and hazardous space ...
Space Exploration
Mar 19, 2020
0
5
