Archive for space exploration

NASA – testing NASA’S next generation james webb space telescope at the goddard space flight center.

Posted in Space with tags , , , , , , , , , on June 9, 2012 by LIFE

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NASA – Solar flare – by NASA’s solar dynamics observatory – March 13th 2012

Posted in Space with tags , , , , , , , , on June 9, 2012 by LIFE

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NASA – Aurora borealis seen from the space station.

Posted in Life, Nature, Photography, Space, Technology, Travel with tags , , , , , , , , , on June 9, 2012 by LIFE

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Flying at an altitude of about 240 miles over the eastern north atlantic, the expedition 30 crew aboard the international space station photographed this night time scene.

SpaceX falcon 9 launches may 22nd 2012

Posted in Space with tags , , , , , , , , on June 9, 2012 by LIFE

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NASA tests future mars landing technology.

Posted in Space with tags , , , , , , on June 8, 2012 by LIFE

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Sled tests will allow NASA’s low density supersonic decelerator project (LDSD) to test inflatable and parachute decelerators to slow spacecraft prior to landing.

The suns handle shaped prominence. Beautiful picture!

Posted in Space, Space exploration with tags , , , , , , on June 8, 2012 by LIFE

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NASA’s extreme ultraviolet imagine telescope aboard ESA’s SOHO spacecraft took this image of a huge handle-shaped prominence in 1999

Prominences are huge clouds of cool dense plasma suspended in the suns hot, thin corona.

Channel on mars

Posted in Space with tags , , , , , on June 7, 2012 by LIFE

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