Blue moon on Friday: How to watch online - Fox News

"This Blue Moon that Slooh will explore Friday night is somewhat rare, but not as rare as the courage and talent of the late Neil Armstrong, the first human to set foot on our nearest celestial neighbor," Berman said in a statement. "To honor him, Slooh will explore the Sea of Tranquility with its Canary Island 20-inch telescope, live, and have guests who will reveal some of the lesser-known secrets of that historic 1969 event. I think many of our visitors will be in for quite a surprise."Night sky observers around the world will have the chance to see a special full moon \u2014 one that has been dubbed a \"blue moon\" \u2014 this Friday, Aug. 31.",
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Blue moon on Friday: How to watch online

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NASA's Mars rover heads east, driving 'beautifully' - Space Daily

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will.i.am, NASA team up for first song from Mars (+video) - Christian Science Monitor

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According to NASA, members of the team that successfully landed the rover on Mars earlier this month will explain to students the mission and the technology behind the song's interplanetary transmission. will.i.am will then premiere &quot;Reach for the Stars,&quot; a new composition about the singer's passion for science, technology, and space exploration.
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will.i.am's i.am.angel Foundation, in partnership with Discovery Education of Silver Spring, Md., a provider of digital resources to kindergarten through grade 12 classrooms, will announce a new science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics initiative featuring NASA assets such as the Mars Curiosity Rover.
&nbsp;The event will be streamed on the agency's website and broadcast on NASA TV.This is an extraordinary achievement. Landing a rover on Mars is not easy â€" others have tried â€" only America has fully succeeded. The investment we are making…the knowledge we hope to gain from our observation and analysis of Gale Crater, will tell us much about the possibility of life on Mars as well as the past and future possibilities for our own planet. Curiosity will bring benefits to Earth and inspire a new generation of scientists and explorers, as it prepares the way for a human mission in the not-too-distant future. <br />http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2012/0828/will.i.am-NASA-team-up-for-first-song-from-Mars-video

Curiosity rover's intriguing geological find - BBC News

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Appleton native plays role in NASA Mars rover - Green Bay Press Gazette

Bernardin said there are two parts of the instrument ). An engineering team at a laboratory in Toulouse, France, created the device's laser, telescope and camera. The camera snaps high-resolution pictures of what the laser will shoot and, once a target is chosen, a laser beam fires through the telescope, vaporizing the rock. The telescope collects the light waves emitted from the atoms of the vaporized material.ChemCam was handed over to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., in 2009 — one of three big moments for the project, Bernardin said. The others were the launch, which he witnessed at Cape Canaveral, and the night of Aug. 5. When that night approached, the 44-year-old engineer said he was met with a "surreal feeling."<br />http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/article/20120825/GPG0101/308250225/Appleton-native-plays-role-NASA-Mars-rover

This Is What Landing on Mars Looks Like - VICE

Even as something of a Mars fever naysayer, I can say that the sight of dust billowing as the Curiosity lander touches down delivers an eerie, awed chill. The video, coming courtesy of NASA&rsquo;s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, was just released today, and provides the first high-res shots of the Mars landing. The video begins as the craft sheds its heat shield and concludes two-and-a-half minutes later at touchdown.
Just imagine you&rsquo;re one of the Martians that&rsquo;s been in hiding since the Soviet Union delivered Mars 2 and 3 to the planet&rsquo;s surface in 1971 (the first human stuff to reach the surface) watching this janky robot touch down, parachute in tow. How tragicomic.<br />http://www.vice.com/read/this-is-what-landing-on-mars-looks-like

Galaxy Cluster Stuns Scientists—Supermassive and Spewing Out Stars - National Geographic

(Related: "Glowing, Green Space Blob Forming New Stars, Hubble Shows.") "The discovery of this cluster was a bit of a roller coaster, since, with every new observation, we found something even more exciting," said MIT astrophysicist Michael McDonald, lead author of the new study detailing the Phoenix findings, released by the journal Nature Wednesday.What's puzzling astronomers most is that the galaxy at the center of the Phoenix Cluster appears to be in an active "starburst" periodâ€"birthing more than 740 stars a year, based on data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, the National Science Foundation's South Pole Telescope, and eight other telescopes on Earth and in orbit.<br />http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/08/120815-galaxy-massive-nature-stars-groups-clusters-space-science-phoenix/