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NASA to hawk space shuttle facilities

Craig Lloyd, Jan 5th 2013 Discuss [3]

Interested in buying a 15,000-foot runway? Or maybe a launch pad? It turns out that NASA is quietly planning to lease or sell off a few of its assets at the Kennedy Space Center. A list of items for sale apparently isn't available yet, but it's said that Launch Pad 39A, a runway, and the Launch Control Center are up for sale. Read The Full Story

Here’s Curiosity’s New Year message from Mars

Chris Davies, Jan 1st 2013 Discuss [2]

Considering how far away Mars rover Curiosity is - and how busy it is chewing through rock samples - we're guessing the exploring robot had a little help from NASA putting together its New Year greeting for Times Square last night. Teased in the final hours of 2012, the clip was beamed up to the huge Toshiba screens above the crowds as part of the tech company's official sponsorship of the New Year celebrations. Read The Full Story

NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover will deliver a “special message” in Times Square tonight

Craig Lloyd, Dec 31st 2012 Discuss [0]

NASA's Curiosity rover has already reached a few milestones, including being the first ever to check in using Foursquare on another planet. Tonight, however, the Mars rover will make an appearance at tonight's New Year's celebrations in New York City's Time Square, where millions will watch the ball drop. The rover is planning to deliver a "special message" on the big screens. Read The Full Story

Hubble celebrates New Year with new star birth photo

Chris Davies, Dec 31st 2012 Discuss [0]

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured an image of a galaxy 45 million light years away, described as "bursting with new star formation" as a vastly-powerful black hole churns through matter. The photo - of the NGC 1097 galaxy - centers on a black hole 100 million times the mass of our own sun and, as we tick over into a new year, shows the evolution of new solar systems. Read The Full Story

Curiosity plays peekaboo: New self-shot before 9-month mountain climb

Chris Davies, Dec 29th 2012 Discuss [37]

NASA's Curiosity rover has set mountain climbing as its New Year's Resolution, with the intrepid space explorer headed up a Martian peak for its 2013 challenge. The nine-month trek - punctuated with pitstops for drilling and sample analysis - will see Curiosity clamber up the 3 mile high Mount Sharp at the center of the Gale Crater it landed near, further hunting evidence that the red planet might once have supported microbial life. Before that, however, Curiosity couldn't resist snapping another self-portrait - with the mountain clearly visible in the background. Read The Full Story

Earth microbes can survive on Mars, study finds

Brittany Hillen, Dec 28th 2012 Discuss [8]

In a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, scientists from the Russian Academy of Sciences and the University of Florida show that the anaerobic organism Carnobacterium can survive on the Red Planet. This comes after years of belief that any Earth microbes that make their way to Mars via devices sent there, such as the Curiosity rover, won't survive the conditions. In light of this information, scientists have to be more careful than ever to avoid sending microbes to the Martian planet. Read The Full Story

SlashGear Evening Wrap-Up: December 27, 2012

Eric Abent, Dec 27th 2012 Discuss [0]

Welcome to Thursday evening everyone! Today a collection of BlackBerry 10 slides outed video chat and screen sharing through BBM, and we learned that smartphone and tablet activations rose to huge numbers of Christmas day earlier this week. There's a new survey from Pew and NPD that suggests tablets are beginning to replace eReaders and print, while we heard that Apple might be thinking about producing the Mac Mini here in the US. Read The Full Story

Landsat 5, a satellite that has been observing Earth since 1984, to be shutdown

Brittany Hillen, Dec 26th 2012 Discuss [3]

The United States Geological Survey is poised to shut down the Landsat 5, an observational satellite that has been circling our fair planet since 1984. The announcement comes about 25 years after when the satellite was originally slated for deactivation. During its life span, Landsat 5 has taken over 2.5 million snapshots. Read The Full Story

ISS releases audio clip of ambient noise inside orbiting laboratory

Craig Lloyd, Dec 26th 2012 Discuss [0]

Everyone imagines what it would be like to live in the International Space Station for a few months, but many don't take the noise level into consideration -- we kind of assume that since it's in space, things are a bit quieter, even with all of the machinery and gadgetry that surround the astronauts, but it's actually quite the contrary. Read The Full Story

NASA slammed with calls over December 21 doomsday fears

Brittany Hillen, Dec 22nd 2012 Discuss [52]

As the last time zones still bearing the December 21 date near their end, it seems safe to say that the day will pass in its entirety sans the worldwide apocalypse many were predicting. NASA will certainly be happy to see it pass, having been slammed with massive quantities of calls and emails from concerned people who feared the world was nearing its end. Read The Full Story

Looking back at NASA’s lunar rovers 40 years later

Shane McGlaun, Dec 21st 2012 Discuss [1]

This December most people are likely focused more on Christmas and family than anything else. The holiday season makes it easy to forget that this month marks 40 years since man has been to the moon. Marking 40 years since man has been on the moon also means it has been 40 years since astronauts sat in the driver seat of NASA's lunar rovers that carted astronauts around the surface of the moon. Read The Full Story

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