NASA will launch a new rover to Mars in 2020. That plan was among the science news NASA made at the 2012 Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco. Also, Voyager 1 travels “magnetic highway”; Van Allen Probes reveal structures and dynamics in Earth’s radiation belts; Kelly and Kornienko on mission; new [...]

A model of Explorer 1, the first artificial satellite launched by the United States, on display in the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. In 1954, U.S. scientists and military officials decided to try to launch an artificial satellite during the International Geophysical Year (which ran from July 1957 to June 1958). On [...]

PRESS RELEASEDate Released: Friday, January 13, 2012Source: American Geophysical Union Lunar Images Alter Understanding of Impact History New images from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter could change our view of the history of impacts on the Moon. In 1972 the Apollo 17 mission took samples from the region of the Serenitatis impact basin. Scientists believed that [...]