Tag: NASA

• Thursday, January 20th 2022 - 09:52 UTC

  Tonga vulcano eruption 500 times stronger than Hiroshima bomb

  

  A NASA scientist has compared this weekend's volcanic eruption off Tonga with the atomic bomb dropped by the United States at the Japanese city of Hiroshima in 1945 and said the recent episode was “500 times” worse.

• Monday, December 20th 2021 - 09:31 UTC

  NASA keeping track of two British explorers in Antarctica collecting info on survival on Mars

  

  The US space agency NASA is tracking two British explorers on a 3,650 kilometers journey across Antarctica to learn more about humanity's ability to survive on Mars. Explorers Justin Packshaw,57, and Jamie Facer Childs, 37 are on an 80-day trek across the southernmost continent as part of the Chasing the Light mission — a grueling expedition that could give a better understanding of the psychological and physical impact of other worlds on the human body and mind.

• Thursday, December 2nd 2021 - 09:45 UTC

  Antarctica, Falklands and South Georgia will see a total and partial solar eclipse

  

  On Saturday, Dec. 4, 2021, some people in the Southern Hemisphere, Falklands, South Georgia Islands, will have the chance to experience a total or partial eclipse of the Sun, according to US space agency NASA.

• Wednesday, September 22nd 2021 - 09:05 UTC

  Killings of social leaders in Colombia total 124 so far in 2021

  

  Monday's killing of five social leaders in Colombia have increased this year's figures to 124, the Institute for Development and Peace Studies (Indepaz) has reported.

• Friday, July 2nd 2021 - 07:06 UTC

  Bezos flying to space with a woman pilot, 82, trained to be an astronaut

  

  Aerospace company Blue Origin's owner Jeff Bezos will go to space with an 82-year-old woman pilot, the firm said Thursday. Wally Funk was one of the first women trained to fly to space but was denied astronaut wings decades ago because of her gender.

• Friday, June 4th 2021 - 09:17 UTC

  Baby squid sent to the Space Station for scientific experiments

  

  A resupply mission has reached the International Space Station (ISS) with fresh supplies for the astronauts, including new solar arrays and...for the first time ever two batches of tiny squids for a scientific experiment.

• Thursday, April 29th 2021 - 07:12 UTC

  Apollo 11 astronaut who orbitted the Moon dies at age 90

  

  Apollo 11 Mission “odd-man-out” Michael Collins died Wednesday of cancer at the age of 90, his family announced.

• Friday, February 26th 2021 - 21:20 UTC

  Spectacular pictures from Mars sent by NASA's Perseverance rover

  

  The US space agency NASA has released a spectacular panoramic view of the landing site of the Perseverance rover on Mars. The panorama shows the rim of the Jezero Crater where the rover touched down last week and the cliff face of an ancient river delta in the distance.

• Saturday, February 20th 2021 - 08:42 UTC

  Impressive pictures from the Perseverance rover successful landing in Mars

  

  Less than a day after NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover successfully landed on the surface of Mars, engineers and scientists at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California were hard at work, awaiting the next transmissions from Perseverance. As data gradually came in, relayed by several spacecraft orbiting the Red Planet, the Perseverance team were relieved to see the rover’s health reports, which showed everything appeared to be working as expected.

• Monday, December 14th 2020 - 07:50 UTC

  NASA to Provide Spanish-Language Coverage, Livestream of Solar Eclipse

  

  NASA will provide live coverage this Monday, Dec. 14, of a solar eclipse that will pass over South America, treating parts of Chile, Argentina and Uruguay to views of a total eclipse of the Sun. A Spanish-language program will air on NASA Television and the public channel on the agency’s website. A separate livestream of the eclipse without narration will air on the media channel.