by David Todd | Sep 6, 2012 | exploration, NASA, Science
NASA has released a mosaic combining six images — two each of red, green and blue spectral filters — to create this natural color view of the large moon Titan orbiting the planet Saturn. The images were obtained with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle...
by Dan Thisdell | Aug 7, 2012 | ESA, NASA, Science, Technology
Not much to see here apart from the heat shield flying off and the ground approaching, but JPL has provided this stop-motion video of frames from the last 2.5mins of flight – the best glimpse of what it would have looked like to ride on Curiosity…...
by David Todd | Jul 4, 2012 | Science
Some 45 years after it was first postulated by Prof. Peter Higgs, scientists at the Large Hadron Collider in Cern on the Franco-Swiss border, believe that they have discovered the Higg’s Boson (aka the “God Particle”), the sub-atomic...
by David Todd | Jun 6, 2012 | On a Lighter Note, Science
For those of you that missed this year’s Venus Transit (the cloud over London did not really play ball on the morning of 6 June) here is another kind of Transit: A Ford Transit. This joke is a green one. We recycled this one from June 2004 when the last Venus...
by David Todd | Jun 1, 2012 | Science
As we congratulate Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II on her Diamond Jubilee as she celebrates 60 years since she ascended to the throne, we note yet another rare event is happening in this week. For while Diamond Jubilees are usually once in a...
by David Todd | May 9, 2012 | ESA, Satellites, Science, Seradata News
Following its loss of contact on 8 April, and a subsequent failure to recover the spacecraft, the European Space Agency (ESA) has formally declared that the Envisat environmental and remote sensing satellite mission is now over. Since the failure, engineers and...
