Rover Will Have To Travel Only About Nine Feet To Second Site
The team operating NASA's Curiosity Mars rover on Mars has selected a second target rock for drilling and sampling. The rover will set course to the drilling location in coming days. This second drilling target, called "Cumberland," lies about nine feet west of the rock where Curiosity's drill first touched Martian stone in February.
Witnesses Outline Exoplanet Surveying And Research Conducted By NASA, NSF
The Subcommittees on Space and Research on Thursday explored current efforts to search for life-sustaining planets. Witnesses discussed the recent discovery by NASA’s Kepler space telescope of three super-Earth sized planets that have the potential to contain life.
The Hubble Space Telescope has found the building blocks for Earth-sized planets in an unlikely place -- the atmospheres of a pair of burned-out stars called white dwarfs. These dead stars are located 150 light-years from Earth in a relatively young star cluster, Hyades, in the constellation Taurus. The star cluster is only 625 million years old. The white dwarfs are being polluted by asteroid-like debris falling onto them.
Public Is welcome To Interact With Astronomers At AAS Meeting In Indianapolis.
The Indy 500 happens twice this year: once in late May, when the world's elite auto racers converge on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, and again a week later, when more than 500 professional astronomers, educators, journalists, and guests converge on downtown Indianapolis for the 222nd meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS), June 2-6, at the Indiana Convention Center.
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