Teachers participate in workshop at Harwell

Teachers participate in workshop at Harwell

Euronews: Presto una mappa della Via Lattea

Euronews: Presto una mappa della Via Lattea

Un paseo por Marte

Un paseo por Marte

ATV-4: La cuarta nave de carga de la ESA finaliza su misión

ATV-4: La cuarta nave de carga de la ESA finaliza su misión

RELEASE FROM THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION

FROM:  NASA

Expedition 37 crew members aboard the International Space Station released Orbital Sciences' Cygnus spacecraft from the station's robotic arm at 7:31 a.m. EDT on Oct. 22. Orbital Sciences engineers now will conduct a series of planned burns and maneuvers to move Cygnus toward a destructive re-entry in Earth's Cygnus had been attached to the space station's Harmony module for 23 days. The spacecraft delivered about 1,300 pounds (589 kilograms) of cargo, including food, clothing and student experiments, on a demonstration cargo resupply mission to the station.  Cygnus was launched on Orbital's Antares rocket on Sept. 18 from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport Pad-0A at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.  Image Credit: NASA-Karen Nyberg

Week in Images

Week in Images

FIRES IN AUSTRALIA

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=82189&src=eoa-iotd

U.S. Department of Defense Armed with Science Update

U.S. Department of Defense Armed with Science Update

Das Technische Museum Wien lädt zu einer Reise durch Zeit und Raum

Das Technische Museum Wien lädt zu einer Reise durch Zeit und Raum

Commande d’adieu au télescope spatial Planck de l’ESA

Commande d’adieu au télescope spatial Planck de l’ESA

Mission-X: jump for the Moon

Mission-X: jump for the Moon

Fin de la mission GOCE de l’ESA

Fin de la mission GOCE de l’ESA

Kterak sonda SMART mapovala severní lunární pól

Kterak sonda SMART mapovala severní lunární pól

Special Ops Command Seeks Prototypes for 'Iron Man Suit'

Special Ops Command Seeks Prototypes for 'Iron Man Suit'

Un equipo de estudiantes españoles lanza un experimento en globo para estudiar el clima

Un equipo de estudiantes españoles lanza un experimento en globo para estudiar el clima

L’ESA fait progresser les satellites de télécommunications tout électriques

L’ESA fait progresser les satellites de télécommunications tout électriques

Juno Fly-by

Juno Fly-by

U.S. Department of Defense Armed with Science Update

U.S. Department of Defense Armed with Science Update

Robot challenge: unload a spacecraft

Robot challenge: unload a spacecraft

Amazing future

Amazing future

ESA rover completes exploring Mars-like desert

ESA rover completes exploring Mars-like desert

Taking 3D printing into the metal age

Taking 3D printing into the metal age

Una burbuja galáctica que esconde una gran sorpresa

Una burbuja galáctica que esconde una gran sorpresa

Rosetta: 100 dias para acordar

Rosetta: 100 dias para acordar

Rosetta: 100 days to wake-up

Rosetta: 100 days to wake-up

Weldra ontwikkeling van nieuwe technologie voor de ruimtevaart in Leuven

Weldra ontwikkeling van nieuwe technologie voor de ruimtevaart in Leuven

Dos estaciones de seguimiento en extremos opuestos de Europa permiten probar el servicio de búsqueda y rescate de Galileo

Dos estaciones de seguimiento en extremos opuestos de Europa permiten probar el servicio de búsqueda y rescate de Galileo

A Terra vista do Espaço: gelo em movimento

A Terra vista do Espaço: gelo em movimento

Week in Images

Week in Images

Immagine EO della settimana: Ghiaccio in Movimento

Immagine EO della settimana: Ghiaccio in Movimento

Un demi-siècle de conquête spatiale à Charleroi

Un demi-siècle de conquête spatiale à Charleroi

A HOT TOWER FORMS IN TROPICAL DEPRESSION 11

 FROM:  NASA

Tropical Depression 11 formed in the central Atlantic Ocean and NASA's TRMM satellite passed overhead and gathered information  and identified a "hot tower" that indicated it would strengthen. The depression became Tropical Storm Jerry on Sept. 30 at 10:30 a.m. EDT.  A "hot tower" is a tall cumulonimbus cloud that reaches at least to the top of the troposphere, the lowest layer of the atmosphere. It extends approximately nine miles (14.5 km) high in the tropics. The hot towers in Tropical Depression 11 were reaching heights of 16 km/9.9 miles high around the depression's center. These towers are called "hot" because they rise to such altitude due to the large amount of latent heat. Water vapor releases this latent heat as it condenses into liquid. NASA research shows that a tropical cyclone with a hot tower in its eye wall was twice as likely to intensify within six or more hours, than a cyclone that lacked a hot tower. Those hot towers also drop heavy rainfall.  mage Credit: NASA/SSAI, Hal Pierce.

Essais dans le désert pour le rover martien de l’ESA

Essais dans le désert pour le rover martien de l’ESA

ESA’s Clean Space initiative to be presented to UK space sector

ESA’s Clean Space initiative to be presented to UK space sector

Tenkrát nad Alpami

Tenkrát nad Alpami

Experiments wanted for the next-best-thing to human research in space

Experiments wanted for the next-best-thing to human research in space

Herschel ayuda a detectar señales esquivas del Universo primigenio

Herschel ayuda a detectar señales esquivas del Universo primigenio

Seatest: una aventura en el fondo del mar

Seatest: una aventura en el fondo del mar

U.S. Department of Defense Armed with Science Update: From Army Officer to Mars Colonist?

U.S. Department of Defense Armed with Science Update