Scientists from NASA are preparing this week for a more difficult and unconventional mission. They will be slamming two of their spacecrafts into the moon’s South Pole in order to find hidden ice water in the lunar double.
NASA is confident that the mission will be successful – but also quite difficult. “I think that people are apprehensive about it because it seems violent or crude, but it’s very economical,” said Tony Colaprete, the principal investigator for the mission at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif.
To many astronomers and scientists Mercury was just an ordinary planet and for 33 long years they didn’t bother to keep an eye on it to see if any new developments had occurred. It is only till recently that they have decided to take close up pictures of the planet and what they have found may set it apart from everything else that has been discovered on any of the other planets.
NASA has sent spacewalkers to look outside the international space station to find out why the solar power apparatus – which is used to create electricity for all of the life support systems – is damaged. Station Commander – Peggy Whitson and flight engineer – Dan Tani both went out today to find the source.