Above: ‘Helelani’ perched outside the HI-SEAS Mars simulation habitat on the slopes of Hawaii Island’s Mauna Loa. PISCES’ planetary rover ‘Helelani’ and the HI-SEAS (Hawaii Space Exploration Analog Simulation) habitat will be featured in an upcoming...
Artist rendering of NASA’s Mars Odyssey spacecraft passing over the south pole of Mars. Image: NASA/JPL. After nearly 14 years of continuous orbit around the Red Planet, NASA’s Odyssey spacecraft is slated to make 60,000 passes around Mars on June 23. The...
Photo: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute NASA has released the first color image of Pluto and its largest moon, Charon, taken just days ago by the New Horizons spacecraft. The photo was captured using the craft’s...
NASA’s Orion spacecraft is shown in the Pacific Ocean Dec. 5, 2014 off the coast of Baja, Mexico after a splashdown that followed a 4.5 hour test-flight roughly 3,600 miles from Earth. A team consisting of NASA, Navy, and the Orion contractor Lockheed Martin,...
Artist rendering of NASA’s Orion spacecraft reentering Earth’s atmosphere during its first test flight slated for Dec. 4, 2014. Credit: NASA. This Thursday (Dec. 4, 2014) NASA’s state-of-the-art Orion spacecraft will undergo its first test flight...
