Explore Space

Info about asteroids

The Near Earth Object Web Service is a RESTful web service for near earth Asteroid information. Here it has been used to search for Asteroids closest to Earth. It is also possible to browse the overall data-set and in this case name, speed, and size were gathered for every object considered potentially dangerous. Data-set: All the data is from the NASA JPL Asteroid team http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/.

Number of asteroid near Earth:
116
Number of potentially dangerous asteroid:
0
Details:

Daily image from NASA

One of the most popular websites at NASA is the Astronomy Picture of the Day. In fact, this website is one of the most popular websites across all federal agencies.

Each day a different image or photograph of our universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.


You can also explore previus images by selecting the date down below.

Random image from Mars

By clicking this button you will be able to see a randomized image from the colection gathered by NASA's Curiosity, Opportunity, and Spirit rovers on Mars.