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Snake Robot On Mars?

Featured Image: A third-generation model of a snakebot being developed for Mars exploration. CREDIT: NASA SOURCE: How Stuff Works (Public Domain)

From Science Daily

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“Sep. 16, 2013 — The ESA wants its operations on other planets to have greater mobility and manoeuvrability. SINTEF researchers are looking into whether snake robots could be the answer”…

…”The researchers envisage using the rover to navigate over large distances, after which the snake robot can detach itself and crawl into tight, inaccessible areas. A cable will connect the robot to the vehicle. The cable will supply power and tractive power, i.e. it can be winched back to the rover. Communication between the pair will be facilitated via signals transmitted down the cable.” . . . Read Complete Report

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Mankind from Mars? New theory explains (Video Report)

Featured Image: The Planet Mars. CREDIT: NASA. (Public Domain)

From youtube uploaded by RTAmerica

Published on Sep 1, 2013

Earlier this week, new research at the 2013 Goldschmidt Conference in Italy introduced the idea that billions of years ago Mars was a better place to form the building blocks of life than the planet Earth. RT’s Meghan Lopez has more on the new theory.

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ScienceCasts: Bright Explosion on the Moon (NASA Video)

Featured Image: Close-up of the Moon. SOURCE: NASA (Public Domain)

From youtube uploaded by ScienceAtNASA·

Published on May 16, 2013

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Disc-Shaped UFO Captured Above Earth by NASA?

From International Business News (UK)

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May 7, 2013 4:22 PM GMT

An unidentified flying object has been captured hovering above the Earth’s surface in an image uploaded to the Nasa website, sparking feverish debate among netizens.

The disc-shaped object can be seen emitting strange rainbow-like colourful lights above the Earth’s surface in the picture. . . . Read Complete Report

NASA Curiosity Rover Team Selects Second Drilling Target on Mars (+) How 3,500 of us want a one-way trip to Mars and be filmed on a ‘space-age reality TV programme’

Featured Image: Planet Mars. SOURCE: NASA (Public-Domain).

From Mars Daily by Staff Writers
Pasadena CA (JPL) May 13, 2013

NASA Curiosity Rover Team Selects Second Drilling Target on Mars

The team operating NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover 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 (2.75 meters) west of the rock where Curiosity’s drill first touched Martian stone in February. Curiosity took the first rock sample ever collected on Mars from that rock, called “John Klein.” . . . Read Complete Report

And while we’re talking about Mars. . . 

From Mail Online (UK)

By DAILY MAIL REPORTER

PUBLISHED: 16:50 EST, 12 May 2013 | UPDATED: 17:03 EST, 12 May 20 2012

How 3,500 of us want a one-way trip to Mars and be filmed on a ‘space-age reality TV programme’

More than 3,500 Britons have applied for a one-way ticket to Mars under a bold plan to fly four people there every year from 2023.

The colonists have to agree to stay on the red planet for the rest of their lives – and be filmed for a reality TV programme.

Mars One, the Dutch company behind the project, says energy will come from solar panels and eats will be grown on the planet. The venture has attracted 78,000 applications from more than 120 countries. . . . Read Complete Report

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From youtube uploaded by UFOTVstudios Aug 14, 2012

UFOTV® Presents – MISSION TO MARS: The Red Planet

NASA discovers Earth like planets (W/Video Report)

Featured Image: Kepler-69 and the Solar System CREDIT NASA (Public Domain)

“The diagram compares the planets of the inner solar system to Kepler-69, a two-planet system about 2,700 light-years from Earth in the constellation Cygnus. The two planets of Kepler-69 orbit a star that belongs to the same class as our sun, called G-type”. . . . Source NASA

From youtube uploaded by RTAmerica·

Published on Apr 22, 2013

NASA’s planet-hunting telescope has discovered two planets that seem like ideal places for some sort of life to flourish. They are just the right size and in just the right place near their star. It was a major breakthrough for astronomers when they located not one, but two habitable planets. Ian O’Neill astrophysicist and space producer of the www.discoverynews.com joins us to talk about this discovery.
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Update: Capturing an Asteroid Proposed in Latest NASA Budget | Space Science Video

Featured Image: Asteroid Belt. CREDIT: NASA 

From youtube uploaded by CoconutScienceLab

Published on Apr 11, 2013

Visit my website at http://www.junglejoel.com – included in NASA’s FY2014 budget proposal is a plan to robotically capture a small near-Earth asteroid and tow it to a stable lunar orbit where astronauts can visit and explore it. Please rate and comment, thanks!
Credit: NASA.

NASA: Operation IceBridge: Getz Mission in 3 Minutes (Video Report)

From Forbidden Knowledge TV via youtube uploaded by NASAexplorer

Published on Jan 31, 2013 

Can you stuff all the sights and science of a 12-hour mission into just three minutes? Maybe not, but here’s our first try, chronicling NASA’s recent flight to Antarctica’s remote Getz Ice Shelf, where Operation IceBridge measured everything from the ice surface to the bedrock below, flew low over giant icebergs, and even scanned a lengthy new crack in the ice.

This video is public domain and can be downloaded at:http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/goto?11135

Popular Mechanics Exclusive: How Bigelow Convinced NASA to Build an Inflatable Add-on to the Space Station (W/Video)

Photo: International Space Station. CREDIT: NASA (Public Domain)

From Popular Mechanics January 31, 2013 11:45 AM

By Michael Belfiore

Bigelow Aerospace has landed a contract with NASA to install an addition to the ISS for a (relatively) cheap $17.8 million. The low price is made possible in part because the add-on will ride to the station in a compact, tightly folded package and expand to full size after it arrives. CEO Robert Bigelow talks with PM about the contract and his company’s future.

Robert Bigelow spent decades amassing the fortune he needed to start his own space company, a dream he had since he was a boy growing up in Las Vegas in the 1950s. At the turn of the millennium, with cash from his real estate empire and hotel chain, he went shopping for the technology he needed to expand off-planet. . . . Read Complete Report

From youtube uploaded by ReelNASA

Bigelow Expandable Activity Module Installation Animation

Published on Jan 16, 2013

An animation of the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module’s extraction and installation on the International Space Station.

Jesse Ventura – Skinwalker (Full Documentary)

from youtube uploaded by AmericanReveille on Jan 8, 2013