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New Nano Satellite Mission To Examine Link Between Lightning And Terrestrial Gamma Ray Flashes
Published November 21, 2008, 3:16 pm, Science Daily
Massive energy releases occur every day in the upper reaches of Earth's atmosphere. Lightning may give rise to these bursts of radiation. However, unlike the well-known flashes of light and peals of thunder familiar to Earth-dwellers, these energy releases are channeled upward and can be detected only from space. Our atmosphere protects us from the effects of this radiation, but the mechanisms ...
Carbon dioxide discovered on distant planet
Published November 21, 2008, 1:53 pm, Nature
Gassy signature of habitability spied in the atmosphere of a 'hot Jupiter'.
First detection of carbon dioxide in an exoplanet
Published November 21, 2008, 1:10 pm, Science News
Finding bodes well in searching for life signatures beyond the solar system
Expert opinions divided on where meteor crash landed
Published November 21, 2008, 11:25 am, CTV Winnipeg
Researchers say the fireball that blazed across the Prairie sky Thursday evening was most likely a meteor, but experts' opinions about where - and if - the galactic object hit the Earth are divided.
Groups take first photos of extrasolar planets
Published November 20, 2008, 8:19 pm, Johns Hopkins News-Letter
Astronomers have taken the first direct images of planets outside of our solar system.
ET on ice: underground glaciers could hold key to Martian life
Published November 20, 2008, 3:06 pm, Australian Broadcasting Corporation
NASA scientists have discovered enormous underground reservoirs of frozen water on Mars, away from its polar caps, in the latest sign that life might be sustainable on the Red planet.
America's Best Leaders: Fiona Harrison & Maria Zuber, NASA scientists
Published November 20, 2008, 7:08 am, US News & World Report
The first two women to head their own NASA robotic space missions.
Interplanetary Internet phones home
Published November 19, 2008, 7:38 am, The Inquirer
IT’S ABOUT TIME a proper working communication system was launched into space, and NASA has finally confirmed it has carried out a successful first test of a deep space communications network modeled on the terrestrial Internet.
NSF/NASA 'Firefly' CubeSat Mission to Study Link Between Lightning and Terrestrial Gamma Ray Flashes
Published November 18, 2008, 12:28 pm, SpaceRef
A new nano satellite mission, called 'Firefly,' sponsored by the NSF and led by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center will explore the relationship between lightning and these sudden bursts, called Terrestrial Gamma Ray Flashes.
Firefly satellite will study thunderstorms
Published November 18, 2008, 10:05 am, ZDNet
The Firefly mission is the second project under the new U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) CubeSat program. The goal of this program is to provide a low cost access to space research. Firefly will be launched in 2010 or 2011 and will try to 'solve the mystery of the most powerful natural particle accelerator in Earth's atmosphere: TGFs, or terrestrial gamma-ray flashes,' according to a NSF ...
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