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 astronomy, cosmology, nasa, nature, photography, planets, solar system, space, space exploration, technology on June 9, 2012 by LIFENASA – Solar flare – by NASA’s solar dynamics observatory – March 13th 2012
Posted in Space with tags astronomy, cosmology, nasa, nature, photography, space, space exploration, technology, universe on June 9, 2012 by LIFENASA – Aurora borealis seen from the space station.
Posted in Life, Nature, Photography, Space, Technology, Travel with tags Earth, nasa, nature, photography, planets, solar system, space, space exploration, technology, travel on June 9, 2012 by LIFEFlying 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 Galaxy, nasa, photography, space, space exploration, space travel, technology, travel, universe on June 9, 2012 by LIFENASA tests future mars landing technology.
Posted in Space with tags nasa, photography, solar system, space, space exploration, technology, universe on June 8, 2012 by LIFESled 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 Earth, nasa, science, space exploration, spacecraft, sun, universe on June 8, 2012 by LIFENASA’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.