Credit: American Geophysical Union It was a “crazy-looking crater” on the face of Mars that caught Ali Bramson’s eye. But it was a simple calculation that explained the crater’s strange shape. Combining data gleaned from two powerful instruments...
Credit: ‘Imiloa Space exploration, our greatest adventure, is having a big impact on our lives. It is helping us to discover a universe of unimaginable scale and beauty, and it is reaching down into our world and influencing the way we live. To Space & Back...
The Mariner 2 was the first spacecraft to encounter another planet Credit:Coalition for Space Exploration The Mariner 2 was the first human probe to Venus that was launched from Cape Canaveral on Aug. 27 in 1962. Mariner 2 was the first spacecraft to encounter another...
Luna 9 Credit: NASA Earth’s moon is a cemetery of space probes, hurled there by numerous nations over the last half-century. Whether they landed successfully or crashed in a useless plume of lunar dust, we usually lost sight of them. NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance...
Celeste “Cesi” Manuia Ha’o recently co-navigated Hōkūleʻa as part of the Mālama Honua World Wide Voyage. Celeste “Cesi” Manuia Ha’o is an Educate Associate and the Outreach Coordinator of the ‘Imiloa Astronomy Center of Hawaii. She is a Hilo native, born in Keaukaha...
