Space

'Venus transit' photographed from campus

June 8, 2004

Cosmonaut Gennady I. Padalka, Expedition 9 commander, works with the torso portion of an Extravehicular Mobility Unit space suit during a training session in the International Space Station (ISS) Quest airlock mockup/trainer in the Space Vehicle Mockup Facility at the Johnson Space Center. Astronaut Edward Michael (Mike) Fincke, NASA ISS science officer and flight engineer, looks over a procedures...

Alumnus blasts off for half a year in space

April 16, 2004

Mars work gets a lift from MIT

Serendipity and Institute scientists play key roles in water discoveries

April 14, 2004

MIT aero/astro team members spent years building and testing these volleyball-sized satellites, and their work is about to pay off. Left to right: graduate students Dustin Berkovitz, Alvar Saenz-Otero and Mark Hilstad, Professor David Miller and research scientist Edmund Kong.

Mini satellites readied for launch

March 31, 2004

Grotzinger describes evidence of Mars water

March 3, 2004

Maria Zuber joins presidential space exploration commission

February 11, 2004

MIT space researchers respond to President Bush's Mars plan

January 28, 2004

The camera on the Mars rover Spirit recorded this image of a football-size rock, officially named "Adirondack" by MIT Professor John Grotzinger. It was chosen as the rover's first target because its flat, dust-free surface is ideally suited for grinding.

It's time to rock and rove for MIT's Grotzinger

January 28, 2004

Leapin' over the Moon to Mars?

MIT researchers respond to Bush Mars plan

January 22, 2004

A view inside the Mars Gravity Biosatellite, which will spin to create artificial gravity at the same level as that on Mars (approximately one-third of Earth's) in order to be able to study the effects of Martian-level gravity on mammals.

Mission to explore effect of Mars' gravity on mammals

January 14, 2004

The Hydros satellite will rotate to focus its beam for scanning a wide area of Earth's surface as it circles the planet every 90 minutes at an altitude of 670 kilometers.

Satellite to gather new data on climate

January 14, 2004

Hard-to-reach measurement now within grasp of scientists

Soil moisture will help assess global change impacts on the water cycle and improve weather forecasts

January 12, 2004

The Mars Gravity Biosatellite will serve as a stepping stone from Earth to Mars, by providing the first ever data on the effects of Martian-level gravity on mammals

Space mission will explore effect of Mars' gravity on mammals

January 9, 2004

An artist rendition of SS 433. Gas from the companion flows to the black hole, forming an accretion disk, heating as it spirals inward. Through a process probably involving magnetic fields, some of the inflowing material is launched into a jet at a speed of 175 million miles per hour (26% of the speed of light). The jet gas then cools from 100 million degrees to 10 million degrees as it expands an...

Jets spout far closer to black hole than thought, MIT scientists say

January 6, 2004

This flare, one of the largest solar flares ever observed by the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), set off a strong high-energy proton event and a fast-moving coronal mass ejection that hit Earth early on Oct. 29. Scientists at MIT's Haystack Observatory used radars to track the space- weather effects on the ionosphere.

'Perfect storms' upset Earth's atmosphere

December 3, 2003

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