Date Posted: 2009-07-08
Earth's 4.5-billion-year history is filled with several turning points when temperatures changed dramatically, asteroids bombarded the planet and life forms came and disappeared. But one of the biggest moments in Earth's lifetime is the Cambrian e...
Date Posted: 2009-07-02
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) has taken and received its first images of the Moon, kicking off the year-long mapping mission of Earth’s nearest celestial neighbor. The LROC imaging system, under the watchful eyes of Arizona ...
Date Posted: 2009-06-30
In a recent article in Christian Science Monitor, titled "Cassini spacecraft finds evidence for liquid water on Enceladus", writer Pete Spotts looks at new research supporting the possibility of finding life beyond Earth on Saturn's moon En...
Date Posted: 2009-06-25
An editorial in the June 25 issue of The Arizona Republic highlighted ASU’s space exploration accomplishments, specifically drawing attention to Professor Mark Robinson’s role in the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter mission.
In the ...
Date Posted: 2009-06-25
Several Arizona State University students participated recently in an astronautical engineering design competition sponsored by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The Revolutionary Aerospace Systems Concepts Academic Linkage (RASC-AL)...
Date Posted: 2009-06-23
NASA robots soon will begin exploring the dusty, rocky terrain of a barren desert on Earth much like the moon. Scientists and engineers will study the images and information the robots gather to help plan where humans should venture next.
To simulat...
Date Posted: 2009-06-22
A slow drift in the orbit of NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft that mission controllers started nine months ago is now giving an ASU instrument a better and more sensitive view of minerals on the surface of Mars. The instrument is the Thermal Emission I...
Date Posted: 2009-06-17
The Interdisciplinary A building on the Tempe campus looks rather average from the outside. There isn’t anything that hints at the excitement, talent and innovation hidden behind its nondescript doors, and there is certainly no indication that ...
Date Posted: 2009-05-28
Arizona State University researchers and scientists have created two new features for Google Earth 5.0, the popular online application that lets users tour Earth, the starry sky, and the Red Planet Mars.
The first of the new features lets an...
Date Posted: 2009-05-27
From May 18-21, 2009, Michael Rutkowski, a graduate student at Arizona State University, Tempe, Ariz., traveled with 25 other students and 89 additional representatives on behalf of Citizens for Space Exploration (CSE), to Capitol Hill in Washington,...
