007-Style Retrieval of Solar Particles
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In a piece of aerial razzle-dazzle worthy of a James Bond movie, a NASA spacecraft is scheduled to drop a capsule into Earth's atmosphere Wednesday, and a helicopter waiting in the skies over Utah will try to pluck it in midair and bring home its precious cargo -- a few micrograms of the stuff that makes up the sun.
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[Technology India]: London, Oct 31 : Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Germany, who have reconstructed the sun&#39;s activity over the last 11 millennia, have forecasted decreased activity within a few decades.
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Satellite images of the world in 2007
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This is the third article in a series of four articles each with a separate explanation of different quantum phenomena. Each article is a piece of a mosaic, so every one is needed to understand the final explanation of the quantum astronomy experiment we propose, possibly using the Allen Telescope Array and the narrow-band radio-wave detectors being build by the SETI Institute and the University of California, Berkeley.
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Telescopes spy the closest asteroid flyby ever recorded. Also: European astronomers find a 'super Earth' 300 trillion light years away.... and did DOS trickery foil the Spirit rover? By Amit Asaravala.
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The European Space Agency is joining the Japanese-led Solar-B mission that is to lift off Saturday from Japan to study the solar atmosphere.  The satellite will be placed into a polar orbit synchronized with the Earth's revolution around the sun.
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NASA has enlisted the aid of Hollywood stunt pilots to retrieve a space capsule as it falls to Earth. The Genesis probe has collected tiny particles of the sun -- a stream of charged atoms known as &quot;solar wind&quot; -- from a region located about ...
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The solar particles are sealed inside the Genesis sample return capsule, a disk about the size of a truck tire, that will drift toward Earth&#39;s surface beneath a parachute.
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Description: NPR&#39;s Ira Flatow tells Alex how to catch a rare sight in the sky just before Christmas dawn -- no, not Santa, but the International Space Station.
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The Genesis desert crash has left scientists wondering about the delicate condition of its solar wind collection. The first release of samples to the community has begun, while new tests for oxygen-isotopes may help uncover which particles might have lunar, solar or terrestrial origins.
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Science & environment: Scientists simulate solar wind in Oxfordshire lab Magnets give protection against cancer risk
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Detecting ions, or charged particles from either solar wind or comet tails, is one goal for the comet-chasing space probe, Rosetta.    Astrobiology Magazine -- The Ion and Electron Spectrometer (IES), one of three NASA instruments aboard the European Space Agency (ESA) Rosetta comet orbiter, successfully underwent an intensive commissioning exercise that qualified it for operation during the next decade...
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Particles that capture infrared light could allow everyday objects to tap into an under-exploited source of energy.
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Scientists have high hopes for a new mission to investigate colossal explosions on the surface of the Sun.
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A scientist using the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) has found a way to forecast solar radiation storms.
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A U.S.-led team of scientists says the samples of comet dust returned to Earth early this year suggest some cosmic theories may have to be reconsidered.  The samples were collected by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Stardust mission that was launched in 1999.
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Genesis engineers and scientists have wrapped the crash site of the solar-wind collecting probe, with hopes of recovering mission objectives. A few disk fragments have been sent to California researchers, but NASA scientists are still working in Utah to preserve the bulk of the cargo.