Thursday, January 27, 2011

We're solar sailing !

In an unexpected reversal of fortune, NASA's NanoSail-D spacecraft has unfurled a gleaming sheet of space-age fabric 650 km above Earth, becoming the first-ever solar sail to circle our planet.  To learn more about the NanoSail-D imaging challenge and contest rules, satellite tracking predictions and sighting times, visit: http://www.nanosail.org


No comments: