ESA’s Envisat Is Watching Eyjafjallajoekull Erupt
Over the last several days, the world has been given a small glimpse of the power of nature on a planetary scale. The Eyjafjallajoekull Volcano in Iceland, which had not…
Happy Birthday, Hubble: 20 Years of Great Astronomy
In a few days, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope will be 20 years old. Birthdays are a good time for looking back, and this is no exception. The Hubble telescope has…
ESA Launches Cryosat-2 on a Mission to Study Earth’s Ice
The European Space Agency launched its CryoSat-2 satellite today (April 8, 2010), thus completing the third phase of its Earth Explorer Series. The satellite will give us our best picture…
Exploration of Mercury Will Continue With the Bepicolombo Probe
This is our second article about the exploration of Mercury. In the first, we looked at NASA’s MESSENGER probe, which will go into orbit around Mercury in 2011, and is…
Nature's Spectacular Show – the Northern Lights
Most people have heard of the aurora borealis ”“ more commonly known as the northern lights ”“ even if they have never actually seen them. And if you have been…
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