Long before NASA reached the moon, the U.S. civilian space agency's managers and engineers began to look at ways of using Apollo lunar hardware in non-lunar and advanced lunar missions. In April 1963, ...

We present a geomorphologic map of Titan’s polar terrains. The map was generated from a combination of Cassini Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) and Imaging Science Subsystem imaging products, as well as ...

The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter’s Mini-RF has just completed its first month of systematic polar mapping. These mosaics cover from 70° to the pole for both the north (top) and south (bottom) polar ...

Polar regions contain vast, undiscovered biodiversity but are both the most-threatened and least-understood areas of the world. Now scientists led by the University of East Anglia (UEA) and the ...

Two Mars orbiter missions – one from NASA, the other from the European Space Agency (ESA) – will open new vistas in the exploration of Mars through the use of sophisticated ground-penetrating radars, ...

You don't have to live in the U.S. Midwest to have heard about the polar vortex, but if you do you've no doubt felt its effects. Frigid temperatures are swallowing up many states thanks to a mass of ...

Cassini’s Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (VIMS) has detected what appears to be a massive ethane cloud surrounding Titan’s north pole. The cloud might be snowing ethane snowflakes into ...

Last week, Adafruit released the DotStar RGB LED Disk, a 240mm diameter disk packed with 255 individually addressable RGB LEDs. Because blinkey glowey projects are the best projects, [Adam] had to ...

The new Vantage M3 gets loads of new smarts trickling down from the Vantage V3, with a big focus on mapping, performance analytics, ECG, and recovery. It costs £349 (US pricing tbc), which puts it ...

Much of the U.S. has been experiencing extreme weather for days, with the polar vortex causing temperatures to plummet far below freezing. The cold weather is supposed to continue from Friday, ...

Concerted action is required to mitigate the impact of warming on polar ecosystems and sustainably manage these unique habitats. Polar regions contain vast, undiscovered biodiversity but are both the ...

Polar regions contain vast, undiscovered biodiversity but are both the most threatened and least-understood areas of the world. Now scientists led by the University of East Anglia (UEA) and the ...