Salem-News.com News Feed for articles tagged with nasa www.salem-news.com 2010 Coveted, analyzed, eulogized, and resurrected, the Port Orford Meteorite is the nucleus of one of Oregon’s classic stories of unclaimed wealth. As both a historical curiosity and gem-laden pallasite meteorite, it would be considered priceless. The legend endures because of enigmatic artifacts from the past, like the talismans of Neahkahnie Mountain or the huge gold nuggets of the Blue Bucket Mine. http://salem-news.com/articles/may122012/orford-meteorite.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may122012/orford-meteorite.php Sat, 12 May 2012 17:50:00 PDT In a Sept. 30, 1998 UCSD television program titled: “The Moon of Jupiter”, pictures taken in 1997 were shown. One picture was of the moon Io with one half of the moon in daylight and one half in darkness. The picture was taken to look at the surface details but when they stretched out the image to bring out the faint details, they realized these volcanic eruptions also glow faintly like fluorescent lights. http://salem-news.com/articles/may122012/volcano-lo-plus-ec.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may122012/volcano-lo-plus-ec.php Sat, 12 May 2012 16:34:00 PDT In the 19th century, history was largely explained by The Great Man Theory , the paradigm that history was made and driven by extraordinary individuals who, through either charisma, intelligence, wisdom, or Machiavellian skills, expressed their power in a way that had a decisive impact on the flow of history. Herbert Spencer, the 19th century Father of Sociology, rejected this idea, saying that such “great” men are really the products of their social milieu, and that their actions would be impossible outside their social environment. http://salem-news.com/articles/april212012/ows_part_1.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april212012/ows_part_1.php Sat, 21 Apr 2012 23:00:00 PDT On March 29, 2012 ABC News played a video of a tornado on the Sun and reported the tornado was “Five times wider than the size of Earth with wind spinning at 186,000 miles per hour.” I don’t believe anyone would try to say that this tornado on the Sun was the result of warm moist air colliding with cold air as they explain the tornadoes on Earth. http://salem-news.com/articles/april112012/tornadoes-nasa-ec.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april112012/tornadoes-nasa-ec.php Wed, 11 Apr 2012 17:36:00 PDT Comets are the most researched phenomenon for over 100 years. If you check the Wikipedia report regarding Comet Hyakutake and compare it to the following “Flash News” report issued over 25 years ago, you will understand why they are not understood... The Wikipedia report states: “One of the great surprises of Hyakutake passage through the inner Solar System was the discovery that it was emitting X-rays. http://salem-news.com/articles/february202012/comets-ec.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february202012/comets-ec.php Mon, 20 Feb 2012 18:09:00 PST A Seattle district court has denied a preliminary injunction in the case of The Institute for Cetacean Research (ICR) vs. Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. This injunction was an attempt by the ICR to immediately halt Sea Shepherd’s anti-whaling activities in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary. http://salem-news.com/articles/february202012/sea-shepherds.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february202012/sea-shepherds.php Mon, 20 Feb 2012 15:16:00 PST The two photos in my last article, "Astronomy Picture of the Day" and the "Fountains of Enceladus" are very important for this reason: If there were that many particles in our atmosphere, it would be difficult to see the stars at night. So, it is the detected and measured “magnetic portal” that stimulates the normally invisible gases in the Earth’s atmosphere to this colorful glow similar to the colorful glow of the “plume of Enceladus”. http://salem-news.com/articles/february182012/edsel.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february182012/edsel.php Sat, 18 Feb 2012 18:23:00 PST I received a link from a member of the Planck Foundation on Dec. 30, 2011 regarding “Magnetic Portals Connect Earth to the Sun”. It states: “During the time it takes you to read this article, something will happen high overhead that until recently many scientists didn’t believe in. A magnetic portal will open, linking Earth to the Sun 93 million miles away..." http://salem-news.com/articles/february052012/magnetic-portal-ec.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february052012/magnetic-portal-ec.php Sun, 05 Feb 2012 14:02:00 PST On Dec. 22, 2011 I received this link from the Planck Foundation, to an article titled: The Sun: A Magnetic Plasma Diffuser That Controls Earth’s Climate. It states: How are we to understand the universe when, as Nobel Laureate William A. Fowler noted in 1988, ‘we do not even understand how our own star really works...’ http://salem-news.com/articles/january162012/magnetic-sun-ec.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january162012/magnetic-sun-ec.php Mon, 16 Jan 2012 17:49:00 PST In a report from London dated Dec. 19, 2011 titled, “Comet Lovejoy Just Misses the Sun”, the scientists reported: “Newly discovered comet, Lovejoy, defied all odds when it survived a hellish journey through the Sun’s corona, where temperatures soar to staggering 1.1 million C. http://salem-news.com/articles/december302011/more-comets-ec.php http://salem-news.com/articles/december302011/more-comets-ec.php Fri, 30 Dec 2011 10:18:00 PST My concept is that the heat and energy of the Sun is the result of the tremendous external magnetic field of the Sun. It is absolutely impossible for an internal 20 million degree internal heat source of any kind to radiate a 3 million degree temperature to the corona and leave a relatively cool 10,000 degree surface of the Sun between these two awesome temperature extremes. http://salem-news.com/articles/december182011/radiated_heat-ec.php http://salem-news.com/articles/december182011/radiated_heat-ec.php Sun, 18 Dec 2011 22:58:00 PST In a NASA program in February, 2001, Professor Douglas Gough, University of Cambridge, said: “We are just beginning to understand how the Earth’s atmosphere operates. We’re beginning to understand meteorology as a result of detailed observations from space. Now we’re going to understand the motions on the Sun. It could be a phenomenon similar to what’s happening on Earth and it will, I believe, herald a new era of solar meteorology.” http://salem-news.com/articles/december122011/weather-information-ec.php http://salem-news.com/articles/december122011/weather-information-ec.php Mon, 12 Dec 2011 20:31:00 PST I received a snail mail letter from Bob Dale, a local meteorologist with KCST-TV dated Jan. 4, 1998. He wrote: "I was grinning from ear to ear when I read the article about finally solving the riddle of the Sun being hotter on the outside! Ha! You told me about that years ago." http://salem-news.com/articles/december092011/space-puzzles-ec.php http://salem-news.com/articles/december092011/space-puzzles-ec.php Fri, 09 Dec 2011 02:24:00 PST NASA reported the detection of both the creation of particles and the repelling characteristic in a 17 Nov. 2011 advisory with an article titled “Kicking Up Dust- Saturn and the Solar Wind Sent Tiny Particles Flying.” The article states: “Dust particles act in an unusual way around Saturn. Instead of being attracted to the giant planet as might be expected, dust particles are ejected away from Saturn in streams that move at speeds of more than 62 miles per second...” http://salem-news.com/articles/november282011/saturn-dust-ec.php http://salem-news.com/articles/november282011/saturn-dust-ec.php Mon, 28 Nov 2011 16:59:00 PST A 9 Nov. 2011 KPBS program copyrighted in 2002 titled “The Elegant Universe; Einstein’s Dream”, it started with: “Actually, no one can figure out how gravity operates when you get down to the size of atoms and subatomic particles. That is, no one can figure out how to put general relativity and quantum mechanics together into one package. http://salem-news.com/articles/november142011/einstein-dream-ec.php http://salem-news.com/articles/november142011/einstein-dream-ec.php Mon, 14 Nov 2011 20:32:00 PST On Nov. 2, 2011 KPBS broadcast a program titled “The Fabric of the Cosmos; what is space?” http://salem-news.com/articles/november082011/nova-program-ec.php http://salem-news.com/articles/november082011/nova-program-ec.php Tue, 08 Nov 2011 02:00:00 PST NASA's Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite, expected to reenter earth's atmosphere in the next few hours, is out of fuel and also out of control according to experts with the national space agency. The spacecraft is expected to re-enter Earth's atmosphere late today or early tomorrow, after six years of productive scientific life. Although the spacecraft will break into pieces during re-entry, not all of it will burn up in the atmosphere. Scientists say the craft is not descending toward re-entry as rapidly as expected. http://salem-news.com/articles/september232011/uars-reentry.php http://salem-news.com/articles/september232011/uars-reentry.php Fri, 23 Sep 2011 12:00:00 PDT Einstein was right again. There is a space-time vortex around Earth, and its shape precisely matches the predictions of Einstein's theory of gravity. Researchers confirmed these points at a press conference today at NASA headquarters where they announced the long-awaited results of Gravity Probe B (GP-B). http://salem-news.com/articles/may102011/space-experiment-nasa.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may102011/space-experiment-nasa.php Tue, 10 May 2011 16:00:00 PDT Perhaps the greatest scientific discovery in the last 15 years has been the identification of planets revolving around stars outside our solar system. Over 500 extrasolar planets or exoplanets have been discovered orbiting nearby stars. Virtually everywhere astronomers look carefully at nearby stars, planets are observed. http://salem-news.com/articles/november292010/star-best-tb.php http://salem-news.com/articles/november292010/star-best-tb.php Mon, 29 Nov 2010 18:24:00 PST NASA today released data that the Moon has at least enough water to fill 1,500 swimming pools. Although there'll be no rush by pool manufacturers to fill the lunar void—the Moon is virtually airless and its surface pressure is zero; but the presence of water does pave the way for colonization. http://salem-news.com/articles/october212010/moon-water-ta.php http://salem-news.com/articles/october212010/moon-water-ta.php Thu, 21 Oct 2010 14:51:00 PDT A team of planet hunters from the University of California (UC) Santa Cruz, and the Carnegie Institution of Washington has announced the discovery of a planet with three times the mass of Earth orbiting a nearby star at a distance that places it squarely in the middle of the star's "habitable zone." This discovery was the result of more than a decade of observations using the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii, one of the world's largest optical telescopes. The research, sponsored by NASA and the National Science Foundation, placed the planet in an area where liquid water could exist on the planet's surface. If confirmed, this would be the most Earth-like exoplanet yet discovered and the first strong case for a potentially habitable one. http://salem-news.com/articles/september292010/potentially-habitable-planet.php http://salem-news.com/articles/september292010/potentially-habitable-planet.php Wed, 29 Sep 2010 14:37:00 PDT Earth’s closest neighbor is holding a secret. In 1999, hints of that secret were revealed in the form of concentrated hydrogen signatures detected in permanently shadowed craters at the lunar poles by NASA’s Lunar Prospector. These readings may be an indication of lunar water and could have far-reaching implications as humans expand exploration past low-Earth orbit. http://salem-news.com/articles/october082009/nasa_moon_100809.php http://salem-news.com/articles/october082009/nasa_moon_100809.php Thu, 08 Oct 2009 21:07:00 PDT Space shuttle Endeavour and its seven-member crew launched at 6:03 p.m. EDT Wednesday from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The mission will deliver the final segment to the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Kibo laboratory and a new crew member to the International Space Station. http://salem-news.com/articles/july262009/video_of_endeavor_tk_7-26-09.php http://salem-news.com/articles/july262009/video_of_endeavor_tk_7-26-09.php Sun, 26 Jul 2009 03:39:00 PDT On Friday, November 14th, the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI) will offer space exploration enthusiasts a front-row seat to watch Oregon astronaut Don Pettit launch into space aboard NASA's space shuttle Endeavour STS-126. http://salem-news.com/articles/november062008/nasa_omsi_11-6-08.php http://salem-news.com/articles/november062008/nasa_omsi_11-6-08.php Thu, 06 Nov 2008 16:05:00 PST With three days and 3 million miles left to fly before arriving at Mars, NASA's Phoenix spacecraft is on track for its destination in the Martian arctic. "The latest calculation from our navigation team shows the center of the area where we're currently headed lies less than eight miles from the center of our target area," said Barry Goldstein, Phoenix project manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. "We may decide on Saturday that we don't need to use our final opportunity for fine tuning the trajectory Phoenix is on. Either way, we will continue to monitor the trajectory throughout Saturday night, on the off chance we need to execute our contingency maneuver eight hours before entry." http://salem-news.com/articles/may232008/phoenix_landing.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may232008/phoenix_landing.php Fri, 23 May 2008 22:43:00 PDT Space shuttle Endeavour thundered into orbit early Tuesday morning carrying seven astronauts and Japan's dreams for a space-based laboratory at the International Space Station. The first module of the Japanese-built Kibo laboratory complex was packed inside Endeavour's cargo bay, along with a Canadian-built robotics system that will enhance the capabilities of the International Space Station's robotic arm. http://salem-news.com/articles/march112008/endeavour_lifts_off_031108.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march112008/endeavour_lifts_off_031108.php Tue, 11 Mar 2008 05:15:00 PDT The rotating service structure has been rolled away from space shuttle Endeavour in a major milestone leading up to launch. The liftoff of Endeavour on the STS-123 mission remains on schedule for 2:28 a.m. EDT Tuesday. The movement of the enclosed gantry clears the way for the loading of about 500,000 gallons of supercold liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen propellants into the orange external tank this evening. http://salem-news.com/articles/march102008/space_shuttle_countdown_031008.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march102008/space_shuttle_countdown_031008.php Mon, 10 Mar 2008 14:24:00 PDT Space shuttle Endeavour’s STS-123 mission is officially set for launch after getting the "go" from NASA's Mission Management Team on Sunday. Liftoff from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, is scheduled for 2:28 a.m. EDT Tuesday. Over the next few days, Endeavour’s crew will be busy double-checking equipment, rehearsing procedures and looking forward to an exciting trip into space. http://salem-news.com/articles/march092008/nasa_endeavour_030908.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march092008/nasa_endeavour_030908.php Sun, 09 Mar 2008 17:47:00 PDT The space shuttle Endeavour astronauts are at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida for final launch preparations for their STS-123 mission to the International Space Station. The crew arrived at Kennedy's Shuttle Landing Facility in a Shuttle Training Aircraft at 1:21 a.m. EST Saturday, March 8. The countdown for the launch of space shuttle Endeavour began on time at 3 a.m. EST in Firing Room 4 of the launch control center. The clock picked up at the T-43 hour mark. http://salem-news.com/articles/march082008/shuttle_countdown_030808.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march082008/shuttle_countdown_030808.php Sat, 08 Mar 2008 06:38:00 PST The Department of Defense announced today that based on debris analysis, officials are confident the missile intercept and destruction of a non-functioning National Reconnaissance Office satellite, achieved the objective of destroying the hydrazine tank and reducing, if not eliminating, the risk to people on Earth from the hazardous chemical. A single modified tactical Standard Missile-3 (SM-3), fired from the USS Lake Erie was used to engage the satellite. http://salem-news.com/articles/february252008/sat_debris_2-25-08.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february252008/sat_debris_2-25-08.php Mon, 25 Feb 2008 09:26:00 PST