Mariner 9 was a NASA space orbiter that helped in the exploration of Mars and was part of the Mariner program. Mariner 9 was launched toward Mars on May 30, 1971 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station and reached the planet on November 13 of the same year, becoming the first spacecraft to orbit another pl...
Dieudonné Costes (14 November 1892 - 18 May 1973) was a French aviator, well known for long distance and record breaking flights, as well as being a fighter ace during World War I. Between 10 October 1927 and 14 April 1928 Costes and Joseph Le Brix flew 57,410 km around the world, in Breguet 19GR named Nu...
Edward Higgins White, II (Lt Col, USAF) (November 14, 1930 - January 27, 1967) was an engineer, United States Air Force officer and NASA astronaut. On June 3, 1965, he became the first American to "walk" in space. Read more
Sir Charles Lyell, 1st Baronet, Kt FRS (14 November 1797 - 22 February 1875) was a British lawyer and the foremost geologist of his day. He is best known as the author of Principles of Geology, which popularised James Hutton's concepts of uniformitarianism - the idea that the earth was shaped by slow-...
Eugene Burton Ely (October 21, 1886 - October 19, 1911) was an aviation pioneer, credited with the first shipboard aircraft take off and landing. Read more
A newly identified separate star cluster in front of the Orion Nebula Cluster Using images from the 340 Mpx MegaCam camera on the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) from the summit of Mauna Kea, astronomers identified the massive cluster of young stars NGC 1980 to be a clearly separate entity f...
3.5 million years ago our early ancestors ate tropical grasses Researchers involved in a new study led by Oxford University have found that between three million and 3.5 million years ago, the diet of our very early ancestors in central Africa is likely to have consisted mainly of tropical grasses a...
Title: The Magnetic Topology of the Weak-Lined T Tauri Star V410 - A Simultaneous Temperature and Magnetic Field Inversion Authors: T. A. Carroll, K. G. Strassmeier, J. B. Rice, A. Kuenstler We present a detailed temperature and magnetic investigation of the T Tauri star V410 Tau by means of a simul...
Title: A Double-Jet System in the G31.41+0.31 Hot Molecular Core Authors: Luca Moscadelli, Jing Jing Li, Riccardo Cesaroni, Alberto Sanna, Ye Xu, Qizhou Zhang This work presents a detailed study of the gas kinematics towards the "Hot Molecular Core" (HMC) G31.41+0.31 via multi-epoc...
Title: ASTEP South: a first photometric analysis Authors: N. Crouzet, T. Guillot, D. Mékarnia, J. Szulágyi, L. Abe, A. Agabi, Y. Fanteď-Caujolle, I. Gonçalves, M. Barbieri, F.-X. Schmider, J.-P. Rivet, E. Bondoux, Z. Challita, C. Pouzenc, F. Fressin, F. Valbousquet, A. Blazit, S. Bonhomme, J.-...
The iconic snows of Kilimanjaro still exist--but for how long? The remaining ice fields atop famed Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania could be gone within two decades and perhaps even sooner, based on the latest survey of the ice fields remaining on the mountain. These predictions, published this week...
With the stroke of a pen, the long-anticipated Wallops Research Park -- designed to bring technology-based jobs and businesses to the area -- became a reality this week. Advertisement Accomack County Board of Supervisors Chairman Steve Mallette, on behalf of the county, signed the agreement leg...
Russia launches two telecom satellites Russia launched two telecommunications satellites Monday night aboard a Proton-M rocket from the Baikonur space centre in Kazakhstan, according to the Russian Federal Space Agency Roscosmos. The Indonesian satellite -- Telkom 3 -- is scheduled to separ...
