NASA has just released an iPad version of its official NASA app for iPhone.NASA HD is a free app that lets users view thousands of NASA images, information about current NASA images and videos, as well as live stream NASA TV. The app also includes access to curated topic areas, like "Women in Space," and to NASA TwitterTwitter feeds ...
If you've seen Danny Boyle's movie Sunshine, you may be a little disappointed: NASA's mission to visit the Earth's Sun won't include sending people up there. But it will be sending a spacecraft into the Sun's atmosphere, approximately four million miles from its surface. The project, called Solar Probe Plus, is slated to launch sometime before 2018.Four million miles doesn't ...
Three compilations of historic NASA images have been released on The Commons on Flickr, the fruit of a collaborative effort between FlickrFlickr, NASA and the Internet Archive.Although all of the photographs in these sets have been available to the public via NASAimages.org since 2008, NASA on The Commons allows the photographs to be tagged, annotated and given keywords. It also ...
Typically, we'd associated terms such as "lasers from space" with global destruction. However, the good folks at NASA have used three satellites and LIDAR laser technology to do something much more interesting -- and with much more value for residents of Earth.NASA scientists have used data collected by the ICESat, Terra and Aqua satellites to create a topographical map that ...
90 degree heat? Check. Sunscreen, sandals and sunglasses? Check, check, check. You are officially ready for the hot winds and bright rays of summer days.With summer already upon us, you're probably planning your next great getaway. No matter if you're a backpacking adventure-seeker or just looking for some places off the beaten path, we've rounded up a bunch of ...
It might be too late for most of us to become astronauts, but thanks to NASA our visages can at least make it into space. Simply upload a headshot of yourself to the Face in Space landing page for the opportunity to get your picture on one of the two remaining space shuttle missions left as the program prepares to ...