21st Century Innovative Technologies and Developments as also discoveries

NASA scientists recorded the biggest explosion from a meteorite impact on the moon that they have seen in eight years of monitoring.

Das Weltraumteleskop Kepler hat weitere Exoplaneten entdeckt, die sich in der habitablen Zone ihres Sterns befinden. Die drei Planeten befinden sich in zwei Sternensystemen. Auf zwei der Planeten

Une équipe d’ingénieurs et de physiciens de l’université de Washington et de la compagnie privée MSNW travaillent sur un moteur à fusion inertielle qui permettrait d’aller sur Mars en quelques mois seulement.

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter used radar to find the underground Martian channels

A new proposal would establish a European space junk-surveillance program.

A meteor streaked across the sky above Russia's Ural Mountains on Friday morning, causing sharp explosions and injuring more than 400 people, many of them hu...

Curiosity drilled about 0.8 inches (2 centimeters) into a Martian rock called John Klein.

The space agency's Mars rover has discovered something 'for the history books' on the Red Planet, but we won't find out what it is until December.

Stay tuned...:

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2412380,00.asp

NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) used an experimental version of interplanetary Internet in late October to control an educational rover from the International Space Station, NASA says.

Read more, very interesting:

http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2012/11/astronaut-on-iss-uses-interplanetary-internet-to-control-robot-in-germany.html

Nobody knows what exploded over Siberia in 1908, but the discovery of the first fragments could finally solve the mystery.

In a project funded through NASA’s Innovative Advanced Concepts Program, researchers from University of Washington and MSNW are calculating the potential for expeditions to Mars using a rocket powered by fusion.

NASA estimates a round-trip human expedition to Mars would take more than four years using current technology. The sheer amount of chemical rocket fuel needed in space would be extremely expensive – the launch costs alone would be more than $12 billion.

Five-sixths of the universe is missing. That statement feels strange to write, and I’m sure it feels pretty strange to read as well. Given the vastness of the cosmos–and given how little of it humans have explored–how can we know for sure that anything is out of place? The claim sounds positively arrogant, if not delusional.

Would heat iron nanoparticles to create solid, ceramic-like blocks.

This series of images of comet C/2012 S1 (ISON) was taken by the Medium-Resolution Imager of NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft over a 36-hour period on Jan. 17 a...

Mars rover Curiosity, after a brief sojourn for Christmas and New Year, has hit a science “jackpot,” ===> discovering extensive evidence that water once flowed over the surface of the Red Planet. <===

In the next few days, Curiosity will use its percussive drill for the first time, to hopefully find evidence that Mars once supported life.

Die beiden Weltraum-Behörden NASA und ESA arbeiten an einem neuen Protokoll, mit dem Internet-Verbindungen auch zwischen zwei Planten möglich werden sollen.

Das zum Einsatz kommende Kommunikationsprotokoll wurde auf den Namen DTN (Disruption Tolerant Networking) getauft und unterscheidet sich grundlegend von auf der Erde genutzten Protokollen.

Mehr erfahren:

http://www.pcwelt.de/news/Technik_-NASA_testet_interplanetares_Internet-7058595.html?r=662550713990327&amp;lid=207392

Avec son spectromètre à laser, le rover Curiosity a analysé un peu d’air, comme il l’a déjà fait avec un autre instrument.

En savoir plus :

http://www.futura-sciences.com/fr/news/t/astronautique/d/curiosity-nous-raconte-latmosphere-martienne_42437/#xtor=AL-26-1[ACTU]-42437[curiosity_nous_raconte_l_atmosphere_martienne]