An Overview of NASA’s Dawn Mission
Asteroid Belt, located between Mars and Jupiter, represents the area of our Solar System we know very little about. Destination of NASA’a Dawn mission is Vesta and Ceres, where Vesta, the brightest asteroid, has...
Category: Unmanned Space Flight
Dawn Spacecraft Will Reach Ceres Soon
NASA’s Dawn spacecraft prepares orbiting Ceres on March 6, in its pursuit for water. Scientists assume that 30% of the mass of Ceres consists of water.
The next Stage of the Rosetta Mission – ESA
This video shows Rosetta comet from the closest perspective with incredible details. The next stage of the Rosetta mission will go on during 2015 when scientists believe to be able to explore the environment...
A Look at Mars’ Surface through the Eyes of Rover
This video shows us NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Mission from its beginnings in 2003. NASA’s engineer Kobie Boykins uncovers a story about exploration of Mars’ surface with a lot of details.
New Image of Mysterious Ceres – NASA
After 7 years of travel, Dawn, NASA’s robot, will reach Ceres in March this year. Ceres is the biggest object in the Asteroid Belt. Scientists know very little about Ceres and have not categorized...
China and India Space Programs
A brief look at the history and future plans of the China and India space programs.
Close Encounter with Pluto – NASA
After 9 years of travelling, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is preparing to encounter Pluto on January 2015. The closest approach has been expected to happen on July 2015, when the New Horizons spacecraft reaches...
The Future of Osiris-Rex Mission Can Reveal New Information about Our Solar System
Astronomers are planning to visit asteroid Bennu in 2018, by starting Osiris-Rex mission. They hope to collect the original material from the asteroid, because unlike the Earth, Bennu has a lot of rock and...
The Best Images of Rosetta Mission – ESA
The following video contains the images captured during the successful landing on the comet on November 12th, 2014. This animation shows the first images made by Rosetta probe and Philla lander.
Rosetta’s Landing on a Comet
After ten years of travelling through the Universe, the Rosetta spacecraft launched by the European Space Agency (ESA) is nearing the end of its mission. At this moment, Rosetta is in the comet’s orbit,...
Rosetta Spacecraft Is about to Land on a Speeding Comet
Generally speaking, landing of the spacecraft belongs to extremely difficult space mission category. From the beginning of the space era, there are only 6 landings on cosmic bodies: Venus, Mars, the Moon, Titan, asteroid...
Cassini Caught a Glimpse of Sunlight on Titan’s Seas – NASA
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft captured the view of the polar seas and the sunlight reflecting on the south of Titan’s largest body of liquid, Kraken Mare.
Mars’ Chaotic Surface
When the European Space Agency’s Mars Express orbiter has gathered data on Mars’ surface, they have been used to simulate the flight over Mars’ chaotic terrain, which consists of the hundreds of mountains that...
The First Close-up of Venus’ Atmosphere
Since 2005, ESA’s Venus Express spacecraft has been orbited around the Venus and gathering a data about its unique atmosphere. Its parameters have appeared much more strange than expected. There are extremely fast winds...
MAVEN Sends “First Light” Images of Mars’ Upper Atmosphere – NASA
After ten months, NASA’a MAVEN spacecraft has reached Mars and starts sending the data about Mars’ atmosphere. It is assumed that billions years ago, Mars had a hospitable atmosphere that could warm Mars and...
Cassini Mission: All about Saturn
In the following video, Dr. Linda Spilker, a Cassini Project scientist, talks about the amazing findings made by the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft ten years ago. It was the first men made object that goes into...
India’s Satellite ‘Mangalyaan’ Enters Mars’ Orbit
On September 24th, 2014, India becomes the fourth country that launches a satellite into Mars’ orbit. The satellite was successfully launched at the first attempt, thus placing India as the first country which managed...
New Era of Spaceflights – NASA
After the Apollo program, the Space Shuttle program has dominated through the last 30 years and performed the space research, launched satellites and installed the international space stations. Now, when the Space Shuttle era...
