Space Exploration Moon Mars Interstella Video Documentary

Giovanni Bignami, former Chairman of the Space Science Advisory Committee of the European Space Agency, and author of the ESA Cosmic Vision 2015-25 ten year planning document, speaks about the future of space exploration. How is his vision document being implemented? Should we try and go back to the Moon? Should we go to Mars instead? Should we try and settle Mars? How quickly can we get a Mars mission up and running? Can we engineer an interstellar mission? And he tells his opinion about …

UFO Sightings 2009 NASA Original UFO Footage

This is the original video I created. This FULL VERSION contains the talk back and forth between the Space Shuttle Atlantis and Mission Control on the public channel about the UFO Footage video. It plays the clips in Normal, 3x , and 6x Speeds. An Emboss filter is also added at the end to show these aren’t reflections in the camera like one astronaut says.

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Real UFO Sightings 2009 The NASA Tapes

NASA appear to be under no illusions about the existence unidentified flying objects. This recently released video shows some remarkable objects not far from the Earth’s atmosphere. It is interesting to see NASA highlighting these foreign objects, which to some extent, shows that their interest in these strange objects is evident.

This is a video of NASA exploring space and finding unidentified flying objects. At 4:30 you will see unidentified objects that seem to be intelligent Nasa tries to explain. Also at 4:41, you’ll see a frame that pops up and points out the UFO’s. Try clicking really fast to freeze the frame.

How Far Away is Mars From The Sun?

Akin to the remainder of the major planets in our Solar System, Mars journeys across an elliptic orbit encircling the Sun therefore precisely determining how far away is mars from the sun is not an exact science. However, it has a nearest point to the Sun in its orbit in addition to a distant location. When an entity arrives at the nearest point in its orbit, astronomers title this as ‘perihelion’. Mars acquires an elliptical orbit encircling the sun so the distance from mars to the sun in fact alters substantially, the distance spans from roughly 128,000,000 to 154,000,000 miles. In addition the period of Mar’s rotation is around 686 days, practically double the rotation of the planet Earth.

Meanwhile, the group operating NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Spirit is inspecting data obtained from Spirit in recent days to study why the rover evidently rebooted its computer at least twice over the Apr 11-12 weekend. “While we don’t have an interpretation yet, we do understand that Spirit’s cells are charged, the solar arrays are manufacturing energy and temperatures are well within permissible scopes.

We have time to respond cautiously and explore this comprehensively,” said John Callas of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. “The rover is in a stable operations state called auto mode and taking care of itself. It may well stay in this well-balanced mode for some time if required while we determine the problem.”

Spirit reported with controllers Friday, Saturday and Sunday, but some of the transmission periods were inconsistent. One of the computer resets seemingly corresponded in regulating with operation of the rover’s high-gain dish transmitting aerial. The rover crew has the benefit of numerous transmission alternatives. Spirit can talk instantly with Earth by way of either the point able high-gain antenna or, at a reduced data rate, by way of a low-gain antenna which does not move. Moreover, connections can be transmitted by Mars orbiters, using the UHF transceiver, a unconnected radio system on the rover.

Track The Space Shuttle in Real Time!

If you would like to track the Space Shuttle in real time then we have identified a website which does just that.

Powered through Google ‘n2yo.com’  provides a unique view of exactly where in the atmosphere the Space Shuttle is at any given time. Using satellite locating technology the results are quite stunning, a graphic of the shuttle is overlaid upon a Google map enabling you to picture the position of the craft in relation to planet Earth.

The site also features the latest news and events undertaken by the shuttle missions taken direct from the NASA site giving accurate and timely updates.

A great site for followers of any Space Shuttle mission and to track the space shuttle missions.

The site can be located a Track The Space Shuttle

NASA IBEX Probe Search For The Edge of The Solar System

The NASA IBEX probe also known as the Interstellar Boundary Explorer, is a NASA satellite that will manufacture the first map of the boundary amid the Solar System. The operation is part of NASA’s Small Explorer program and the probe was launched on a Pegasus-XL rocket on October 19, 2008. The primary mission will last for approximately 2 years in which it will endeavour to map the complete solar system boundary.

The IBEX mission is being directed by the Southwest Research Institute, with Los Alamos National Laboratory and Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Centre serving as Co-Investigator institutions accountable for the IBEX-Hi and IBEX-Lo sensors. Orbital Sciences Corporation supplied the spacecraft bus and was the location for spacecraft environmental examination. NASA masterminds have remotely examined the systems aboard the spacecraft and so far, said Eric Christian, program scientist for NASA’s Interstellar Boundary Explorer program, all systems are fully operational.

The spacecraft will centre its concentration on the ‘interstellar boundary’, the brink of our solar system where the hot solar wind sweeps into the cold expanse of space. The active neutral atom (ENA) generated images IBEX will capture, will expectantly help scientists figure out the fundamental interaction between our sun and the Milky Way galaxy. The interstellar boundary areas are important because they protect the Earth from the huge and extremely dangerous galactic cosmic rays, which otherwise would enter into Earth’s orbit and cause human space flight to be much more hazardous. NASA began collecting data on the outer reaches of the solar system when Voyager 1 and 2, began in 1977, and navigated through our inner solar system for a trip toward the frontier. Officials commented at the time that both Voyagers had obtained “totally unexpected” data from both spacecrafts, and this valuable data refuted many long held ideologies about the region.

Using this information, research workers will inspect the structures and dynamics of the outer hemisphere and address a genuine test facing manned exploration, by investigating the area that shields Earth from the majority of galactic cosmic ray radiations. It has now been 4 months since the original launch, and IBEX Principal Investigator Dr. David McComas commented that they are receiving some ‘fantastic science results’. It is understood the data produced so far have provided some exceptional clear spatial variations in both the fluxes and energies of the neutral atoms travelling in from the edge of the solar system. A significant progress update is expected to be announced this summer following the completion of the first all sky map.