Published in The Patriot Ledger January 24, 2015
2015 will be a big year for dwarf planets. Two spaceships launched by NASA several years ago will soon be giving us our first close look at Ceres and at Pluto, giving us better photos and more scientific data on each of these dwarf planets than we have had before. But what are dwarf planets? When I was a boy, Pluto was one of the nine planets and Ceres was an asteroid. (more…)
The evolution of life
Matt Damon in "The Martian"
Pluto's surface as seen by New Horizons
SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket
Size comprison of the Earth, the moon, and Pluto (lower left)
Aerial view of Spaceship Two crash in Mohave Desert
Close-up of nucleus of comet 67P taken by ESA spacecraft Rosetta
Wernher Von Braun & engines of Saturn V
Steven Swanson (left) and Russian colleagues
Yutu, Chinese rover, on the moon
Comet ISON and its green tail
Archives
International Space Station, where NASA will continue to support the astronauts during the shutdown
Artist's version of Mars One colony (Bryan Versteeg)
Kepler Space Telescope (artist's version)
Pluto - the Former Ninth Planet
Virgin Galactic space plane over New Mexico's Spaceport America
Saturn - Lord of the Rings
Arizona's Meteor Crater
Radar view of the surface of Venus as seen by Magellan orbiter
Use of Terra, a spin-off of CheMin (instrument on Curiosity), in King Tut's tomb
Streambed found on Mars by Curiosity (compared to dry streambed on Earth)
Self-portrait of the rover Curiosity on Mars.
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