Curiosity Rover’s 1.8 Billion-pixel panorama of Mars
Recently, while all the NASA types were on holiday, the Mars Curiosity Rover got bored and took a panorama. You can’t really blame it, it went to Mars on a … Read More
Tag: space
Returning to the moon and the motives behind it
Fifty years ago, humans set foot on the moon. It was, and still is, the most incredible thing to have done and unlike the vast majority of things we smart … Read More
NASA Images and Video Library
NASA has opened an archive site that hosts 140,000 files of space-related awesomeness. It should keep you in screensaver images for a long time – possibly forever as they said they will continue to add to it.
What it’s like to land on Pluto
NASA has stitched together 100 photos from the New Horizons flyby in 2015 to give an idea of what it would be like to land on Pluto. In colour!
Every extraterrestrial body robots have landed on
I came across these pictures and they are amazing. Each one is a photo taken from an extraterrestrial body – i.e. not Earth – by robots. Lucky robots.
Welcome back Tim Peake
Here at the Word of Ward we are unanimous in our support of space exploration, ESA, NASA and the brave people who go into space in the quest for knowledge. … Read More
Time lapse video of Earth from space
This time lapse video of Earth from space is brilliant. It uses footage from NASA’s Johnson Space Center and makes the Earth look ever so pretty.
Deep Space Industries
This fanciful dreaming has been inspired by the science-fiction-sounding Deep Space Industries.
The Mars Rover
This is a picture of Mars. Mars! How awesome is that? This was taken by the Mars Rover – a 10 foot nuclear powered robot that is wandering around the red planet doing scientific analysis with the aid of lasers that shoot from its eyes.
The Last Space Shuttle and the Future
The last ever Space Shuttle, the Atlantis, touched down yesterday marking the end of the 30 year old NASA project. My initial thought was, ‘Well, that’s another giant leap backward for Mankind’ and … Read More