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NASA last week launched a new interactive Web site, jointly developed with the non-profit Internet Archive, which initially combines some 21 separately stored and managed NASA imagery collections into a single online resource featuring enhanced search, visual and metadata capabilities.

NASA and the Challenger Center for Space Education have partnered to engage students in ongoing activities for one of NASA's concepts for astronaut housing on the moon through a contest to name a habitat in Antarctica. NASA currently is conducting a test of a lightweight, durable, inflatable habitat on the cold, harsh landscape of the National Science Foundation's McMurdo Station.

NASA has used the Hubble Space Telescope to capture the first visible-light image of a planet circling another star. The planet, called Fomalhaut b, is estimated to be approximately three times Jupiter's mass and takes roughly 872 years to orbit the bright southern star Fomalhaut, located 25 light-years away in the constellation Piscis. About 300 extrasolar planets have been discovered through indirect observations (e.g. by obstructing the light of stars) but this is the first to be viewed directly.

This moon is doomed. Mars, named for the Roman god of war, has two tiny moons--Phobos and Deimos--whose names are derived from the Greek for fear and panic. These Martian moons may well be captured asteroids originating in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter or perhaps from even more distant reaches of the solar system.

Great and interesting info on prototype spaceships by nasa and russia that never got to do their thing.