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NASA Live on USTREAM: Explore behind the scenes at NASA live. . Watch without ads Ustream © Search Log in / Sign up With Facebook (faster) Online Bike Shop - Merlin Cycles joeblogsf1 – F1 stories from Joe Saward Vettel does doughnuts and Kobayashi greets the fans: videos from Suzuka Kamui Kobayashi celebrated with his fans at Suzuka Sebastian Vettel’s post-race doughnuts in Japan was just one of the unseen highlights of the race weekend. During the drivers’ parade Kamui Kobayashi hopped out of his car and greeted his fans at turn two.

Astronomer captures image of planet - World news, News 20 October 2011 The Institute for Astronomy said Adam Kraus used Keck telescopes on Mauna Kea to find the planet. The University of Hawaii astronomer was working with Michael Ireland from Macquarie University and the Australian Astronomical Observatory. Photo reveals a planet-sized object as cool as the Earth The photo of a nearby star and its orbiting companion—with a temperature like a hot summer day in Arizona—will be revealed by Penn State Associate Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kevin Luhman during a presentation at the Signposts of Planets conference at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center on 20 October 2011. A paper describing the discovery will be published in the Astrophysical Journal. "This planet-like companion is the coldest object ever directly photographed outside our solar system," said Luhman, who led the discovery team. "Its mass is about the same as many of the known extra-solar planets—about six to nine times the mass of Jupiter—but in other ways it is more like a star. Essentially, what we have found is a very small star with an atmospheric temperature about as cool as the Earth's." See photo here.

Video Duet – Soyuz Debut Blast off from the Amazon Jungle and Rockin’ Russian Rollout ! Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter Watch the video of today’s debut lift off of a Russian Soyuz rocket from the edge of the Amazon jungle at the Guiana Space Center in French Guiana as it successfully carried the first two Galileo In-Orbit Validation satellites to space after an arduous 7 year struggle to mesh Russian and European technologies and cultures – a magnificent achievement that opens a wide realm of new commercial and science exploration possibilities to exploit space for humankind.

Curiosity lands successfully, kicks off new era in Mars exploration If all continues to go well, Curiosity will soon bring us a wealth of new information about the Martian climate, soil, and geology. The rover landed at approximately 1:30 AM EST and has signaled its successful deployment. Opportunity — the tremendously successful rover that first landed on Mars in 2004 and is still operational — now has functional company on the Red Planet for the first time since 2010. “Ambitious” is the only way to describe NASA’s latest probe. After the tremendous successes of Sojourner, Spirit, and Opportunity, NASA built Curiosity to an even more ambitious specification. The rover is the approximate size of a Mini Cooper, weighs about one ton, and uses a radioisotope power system that contains some eleven pounds of plutonium-238.

NASA unveils Mars rover Curiosity’s travel plans The first destination of NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity will be an area near its Gale Crater landing site, where three kinds of terrain come together in a striking and unusual way. The rover’s primary mission is to reach the base of Mount Sharp — a three-mile high mound with layers of exposed rock — as it searches for the building blocks of possible Martian microbial life. Video On Friday, NASA released a series of images that shows the heat shield from the Mars Science Laboratory hitting the ground on Mars and raising a cloud of dust. But the six-wheeled Curiosity will first visit a site in a different direction because of the three adjoining rock formations, which scientists say could help them better understand the history of the crater and of Mars.

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