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A Sight Never Seen By Human Eyes
Posted Tuesday, October 7, at 2:26 PM
Until this morning (Oct. 7), parts of the surface of Mercury in this photo have never been seen before. This is a spectacular shot made 1 1/2 hours after the NASA spacecraft, Messenger, made a very close flyby (around 125 miles from the 800 degree F. surface) of the Solar System's closest planet to the Sun early yesterday (Oct. 6) morning. This is the second flyby. After another flyby next year (Sept. 09), Messenger will be the first spacecraft to ever go into orbit around Mercury, in March of 2011. The last spacecraft to fly by Mercury was Mariner 10 in 1975.
News Flash: It's Snowing on Mars! (really!) In several updates on Space and Astronomy this past week: 1. Snow has been detected falling from clouds on Mars with the Phoenix lander. None has been seen hitting the ground, although this will be monitored. Phoenix's onboard laboratory has detected molecules on Mars that indicate past presence of liquid water (and life??). Ice is now at the landing site about 3 inches under the surface...
America in Space-September 2008 October 4-10 has been declared World Space Week by the United Nations, while 2009 has been declared International Year of Astronomy-celebrating the 400th anniversary of when Galileo first used a telescope to explore the heavens, shaking up the notion that the Earth was the center of the Universe...
Tropical Depression Ike Hits Piggott (photo)
Dust Devil on Mars
Anniversary of Nation's Worst Disaster 108 years ago last night (Sept. 8, 1900), the worst disaster in our nation's history hit Galveston, Texas. 6-8 thousand people died when a massive hurricane devastated this once huge city. Despite Katrina and the bad scares we have had this year, we often forget how many thousand people have been saved from death by current meteorological technology, which, of course, is, to a great extent possible by our nation's space program. ...
Space Shuttle Rolls out to Launch Pad Tonight-9/1/08 Due to some additional work on the Atlantis shuttle, it will roll out tonight at 11:01 Piggott time, from the Vehicle Assembly Building (the largest building on earth) to the launch pad, taking about 6 hours to reach the pad. Atlantis will be commanded by Scott Altman. ...
Kennedy Space Center Reopens, getting Shuttle ready The Kennedy Space Center reopened Friday, and the shuttle Atlantis is now in the 52 story tall Vehicle Assembly Building (the largest building on earth) being mated with the solid rocket boosters and external fuel tank. Saturday morning, it will be moved 4 miles to the launch pad on the crawler (one of 2 rocket moving devices built during the Apollo moon program, that, at a 1 mile-per-hour speed, gets 18 inches to the gallon!) for an Oct. ...
Fay Closes Kennedy Space Center Tropical storm Fay has closed America's space port, Kennedy Space Center, today (Tuesday, August 19), with only about 200 emergency employees staying on the site. The storm hit the coast of Southwest Florida this morning and should affect the space center this afternoon. ...
America's Space Program Celebrates 50 Years Yesterday, July 29, 2008, NASA celebrated its 50th Birthday. For a history of America's Space Program, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA.
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Kenneth Renshaw
NASA/JPL
Solar System Ambassador/Saturn Observation Campaign
Kenneth is one of 494 volunteer educators and astronomers who donate their time to educate America's youth, and the general public, about astronomy and the U.S. space program.
Organized in 1999 by NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab,it focuses on spacecraft built by the JPL such as Voyager, Mars Rover, Galileo, Cassini as well as the Hubble Space Telescope.
Renshaw is one of four ambassadors in Arkansas, and makes presentations to all age and experience groups from pre-school to university science level.
His official NASA website it
www2.jpl.nasa.gov/ambassador/profiles/Kenneth_Renshaw.htm
His email address is renshaw@newwavecomm.net
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Dust Devil on Mars
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