An exciting piece of news from over at Geekologie. A new comet, which has been discovered near Saturn, could become one of the brightest ever recorded when it speeds past the Sun in late 2013/early 2014. The comet, entitled Comet ISON (C/2012S1) will burn up past the sun. Although it...
NASA Working On Warp Drive
posted by Chris McQuillan
In the second of today’s new technology stories, it’s the exciting news that NASA have begun work on warp drive. Perhaps a Star Trek experience within our lifetime is not such a remote possibility.” - Dr. Harold White. It would appear that NASA now believe that a real life-warp drive is now possible, by rejigging the energy requirements of previous hypotheses. Dr. White’s team are working on loopholes that are believed to exist in certain mathematical equations. Such loopholes, though they may sound like nothing, may indicate that warping the fabric of space-time is...
Endeavour’s La...
posted by Chris McQuillan
A really nice video taken from Gizmodo, with some gorgeous shots of the Space Shuttle Endeavour’s last flight in California. The video is shot using a RED Epic camera at 5K resolution with Canon 800mm 5.6 lens in slow motion—-96 frames per second. This was the last flight of any space...
Martian Spheres Puzz...
posted by Chris McQuillan
The discovery of a collection of strange spherical objects on Mars has caused a stir over at NASA. Despite all the fuss made over the Curiosity rover in recent months, the discovery has actually come from earlier rover Opportunity. The strange spheres resemble earlier objects –...
HD Curiosity Descent...
posted by Chris McQuillan
Someone with apparently too much time on their hands has spent four weeks putting together an HD video of NASA’s Curiosity rover’s descent. He’s retouched the original footage, upping the quality considerably, and adding in some fake sound effects for dramatic...
Curiosity from above
posted by Andi Hamilton
This image blew me away… This was taken from the HiRISE camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter where you can clearly see the progress that the Curiosity Rover has...
Curiosity’s Martian Landscape Shot
posted by Chris McQuillan
NASA’s rover Curiosity has sent back a stunning image from the surface of Mars, shot from the rover’s 100mm camera. The image shows Mount Sharp, near Curiosity’s landing site. Quite beautiful, wouldn’t you say?
Obama In Armstrong T...
posted by Chris McQuillan
From the BBC: US President Barack Obama has led tributes to astronaut Neil Armstrong, the first man on the Moon, who died on Saturday at the age of 82. Mr Obama said on his Twitter feed: “Neil Armstrong was a hero not just of his time, but of all time.” Hundreds of millions...
Curiosity Descent in...
posted by Chris McQuillan
A high-definition video, created from picture stills as Curiosity made its descent towards Mars, has been released on YouTube. As one of the top commenters stated, for some reason, you expect there to be sound! Even without it, it’s quite a...
We’re NASA and...
posted by Andi Hamilton
Found this video on the internet this morning, if any of you are looking for a bit of a laugh check out the video below.
High Resolution Phot...
posted by Andi Hamilton
Wow, just wow! This is an amzing picture of Curiosity’s wheel on the surface of Mars, this is an incredible image of the martian ground and as time goes on more amazing things shall be discovered about the red planet. Dare Mighty...
New Video and Images...
posted by Andi Hamilton
I have been following the Mars rover Curiosity since launch last year, I watched the successful landing yesterday and now I am in amazement of some of the images and video that has been sent back to earth here from the rover. They have been included in a gallery...
