Monday, December 17, 2012 | 4:35 pm
GRAIL principal investigator Maria Zuber (left) and Bear Ride, the sister of late astronaut Sally Ride, appear together after the GRAIL twin spacecraft successfully complete their mission and impact the moon. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA has named the s... More »
Monday, December 17, 2012 | 3:35 pm
An artist’s depiction of the GRAIL twins (Ebb and Flow) in lunar orbit. During GRAIL’s prime mission science phase, the two spacecraft will orbit the moon as high as 31 miles (51 kilometers) and as low as 10 miles (16 kilometers). Image credit: NASA/Caltech-JP... More »
Monday, December 17, 2012 | 3:05 pm
An artist’s depiction of the GRAIL twins (Ebb and Flow) in lunar orbit. During GRAIL’s prime mission science phase, the two spacecraft will orbit the moon as high as 31 miles (51 kilometers) and as low as 10 miles (16 kilometers). Image credit: NASA/Caltech-JP... More »
Friday, December 14, 2012 | 4:05 pm
Radar imagery of asteroid Toutatis taken by NASA’s Goldstone Solar System Radar on Dec. 12 and 13, 2012. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech › Larger view Scientists working with NASA’s 230-foot-wide (70-meter) Deep Space Network antenna at Goldstone, Calif., have ... More »
Friday, December 14, 2012 | 2:05 pm
An artist’s depiction of the GRAIL twins (Ebb and Flow) in lunar orbit. During GRAIL’s prime mission science phase, the two spacecraft will orbit the moon as high as 31 miles (51 kilometers) and as low as 10 miles (16 kilometers). Image credit: NASA/Caltech-JP... More »
Friday, December 14, 2012 | 1:35 pm
This still image and animation shows the final flight path for NASA’s twin Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission spacecraft, which will impact the moon on Dec. 17, 2012, around 2:28 p.m. PST. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/GSFC/ASU › See ani... More »
Friday, December 14, 2012 | 10:05 am
Radar imagery of asteroid Toutatis taken by NASA’s Goldstone Solar System Radar on Dec. 12 and 13, 2012. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech › Larger view Scientists working with NASA’s 230-foot-wide (70-meter) Deep Space Network antenna at Goldstone, Calif., have ... More »
Thursday, December 13, 2012 | 12:35 pm
Last Flight for GRAIL’s Twin Spacecraft This still image and animation shows the final flight path for NASA’s twin Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission spacecraft, which will impact the moon on Dec. 17, 2012, around 2:28 p.m. PST. Image cre... More »
Wednesday, December 12, 2012 | 2:35 pm
On Dec. 14, 1962, NASA’s Mariner 2 spacecraft sailed close to Venus, marking the first time any spacecraft had ever successfully made a close-up study of another planet. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Fifty years ago on a mid-December day, NASA’s Mariner 2 sp... More »
Wednesday, December 12, 2012 | 11:35 am
This image from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft shows a vast river system on Saturn’s moon Titan. It is the first time images from space have revealed a river system so vast and in such high resolution anywhere other than Earth. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASI ... More »
Tuesday, December 11, 2012 | 4:35 pm
On the 84th and 85th Martian days of the NASA Mars rover Curiosity’s mission on Mars (Oct. 31 and Nov. 1, 2012), NASA’s Curiosity rover used the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) to capture dozens of high-resolution images to be combined into self-portrait images ... More »
Tuesday, December 11, 2012 | 3:35 pm
Layered Martian Outcrop ‘Shaler’ in ‘Glenelg’ Area The NASA Mars rover Curiosity used its Mast Camera (Mastcam) during the mission’s 120th Martian day, or sol (Dec. 7, 2012), to record this view of a rock outcrop informally named “Shaler.” Image credit: NASA/J... More »