We are reading Cosmic in LA. our teacher Mrs. Williams wants us to pick our top five favorite things that happened on NASA in 2012.
- On December 12 NASA announced that the Hubble Telescope can see very far in space. they discovered a unseen population of seven primitive galaxies formed 13 billion years ago!
- In July the NASA Kennedy space center in Florida had an arrival of the Orion Capsule. It will carry astronauts farther into space than ever before! There is also an abort capsule in it.
- NASA discovered ice on Mercury! NASA’s MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEocheistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) found ice on mercury!
- IN April NASA will be hunting a class of black hole in space with NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE).
- In January NASA captured the best and most complete glimpse of what lies beyond the solar system! They captured it in the Interstellar Boundary Explorer spacecraft.