Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Failed Wheels












Mission Logo - Courtesy NASA & Caltech

NASA's awesome planet-hunting mission, the Kepler Space Telescope, has been hobbled for a while by failed wheels (failed gyroscopes, essentially).  Even though it's planet hunting days are over, it will probably still serve as an able space-based platform to aid astronomers.

Read on for more at Scientific American...
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=kepler-new-mission-asteroseismology

You can download NASA's awesome 'app' Eyes on the Solar System, here...
http://eyes.nasa.gov/download.html

It's an awesome little program; and they're constantly adding stuff to it.