Curiosity Has Landed - 5 Ways You Can Follow What The Mars Rover Is Up To
Let’s rejoice because Curiosity overcame the eight months space hop and the seven minutes of terror to land safely on Mars. Now, it will go about its business of finding out if Martians really exist…or at least their microbial forms. The car-sized super-advanced robot on wheels will search for extra-terrestrial organic clues of life. Its two year mission could give us a few clues to the second biggest question of all time – are we alone out here?
5 Best Android Apps to Turn UFOs Into IFOs
The next time you're out hiking the hills or strolling the city streets, make sure you have the following five apps on your Android phone or tablet, and you'll never have to worry about misidentifying a star, airplane or satellite as an UN-identified flying object ever again. You can turn those sightings into Identified Flying Objects!
Calling Space Buffs: Go On A Search For Another Earth With NASA PlanetQuest
Future generations will experience the joy of shaking hands with beings from another Earth-like planet; Mars Attack and Independence Day notwithstanding. But I guess we aren’t so worse off either because sometimes the fun is in the hunt and in the grandest of all questions – are we alone in the universe?
Simulate Building & Launching A Model Rocket With OpenRocket
We love making models here at MUO. But one problem with tweaking a model design in the real world is that to test it, you have to rebuild a rocket with new parameters, do a test launch, and then head back to the drawing board to further improve your design. What if you could use a computer to simulate a model rocket launch, with the ability to modify and test all of the possible alterations you can make to your rocket design?
Relive Star Trek & Explore Space In Vega Trek [MUO Gaming]
I remember when I was a kid, I used to close the door to my room, fire up the old DOS-based computer that booted up off a floppy disk, and then pretend that I was controlling my own space ship with that computer. Without any cool graphics or special effects, I had to use my imagination - with the help of the night sky outside - to imagine that I was the Captain of my own Starship Enterprise, confronting Romulans.
Experience Space Exploration In 3D At NASA Visualizations
Are you a fellow space explorer? If you had the opportunity to experience what's it's like to be an astronaut, or even one of the many technical support crew that support space exploration, would you jump for it? The amazing thing about NASA, besides all of the mind-bending missions into outer space, is just how hard the space agency works to educate the general public about space.
Geeky Documentaries: 6 Fascinating Films About Hardware, Software & Space [Stuff to Watch]
This week’s Stuff to Watch is all about sitting back, letting the power of a well-produced documentary wash over you and engaging your grey matter without even leaving the sofa. What’s more each of these films have a geeky twist, be it the story of the modern computer, innovative technology and even the big bad world of file sharing.
9 Live Citizen Science Projects You Can Participate In To Learn More About Our Planet & Space
Science has gone social. Research scientists maybe crunching away at their super-computers but they aren’t neglecting the remarkable potential of the most powerful computer of all – the human brain. When you put a few billion together you get a massive neural network that no computer can match.
Study The Movement Of The Milky Way With Solar Model
One of the things I'm always on the lookout for when searching for free apps to review are more cool space explorer apps or websites but most of them amount to nothing more than novelty apps. So I was pretty excited to come across Solar Model 2, because aside from being able to explore space in an advanced graphical rendering engine, it also lets enthusiasts and students "measure" space.
Explore Space On Your iPad with The NASA's iPad App
NASA, one of the pioneers in space exploration, has released a free iPad app which collects, customizes, and delivers an extensive selection of dynamically updated mission information, images, videos, and Twitter feeds from various online NASA sources in a convenient mobile package.
7 Cool iPhone & iPad Space Apps From NASA [iOS]
NASA and its astronauts have boldly gone where many of us can only dream of going – the depths of space. Their website is full of information, thought-provoking imagery and a couple of awesome free downloads. Here are 7 of the best NASA apps to entertain, amaze and inform you about space, science and the elements around us.