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Caught In The Wind From The Sun
Paris, France (ESA) Dec 03, 2007Venus Express has exposed the true extent to which the Sun strips away the atmosphere of Venus. This process could be an important contribution to the way the planet has evolved to become so different from the Earth. The Sun has probably been stripping away the Venus' atmosphere throughout the planet's four-thousand million-year history. Unlike Earth, Venus does not possess an intrinsic ma ... more Dark Energy -- 10 Years On 
Washington DC (SPX) Dec 03, 2007Three quarters of our universe is made up of some weird, gravitationally repulsive substance that was only discovered ten years ago - dark energy. This month in Physics World, Eric Linder and Saul Perlmutter, both at the University of California at Berkeley, reveal how little we know about dark energy and describe what advances in our knowledge of dark energy we can expect in the coming decade f ... more EU rallies Spain to clinch unanimous Galileo deal 
Brussels (AFP) Nov 30, 2007European Union nations reached unanimous agreement Friday on how to proceed with the flag-ship Galileo satellite navigation project, after allaying concerns from Spain. "The presidency announces that it was possible to have the agreement of all the delegations, without exception, on Galileo," said Portuguese Transport Minister Mario Lino, whose country holds the EU's rotating presidency. ... more Arianespace warns US over Chinese space 'dumping' 
Washington (AFP) Nov 30, 2007The head of the European satellite launch group Arianespace, Jean-Yves Le Gall, warned the United States Friday against Chinese "dumping" in the market and suggested Washington should improve its oversight. "Today, we see China has re-entered the market for commercial launches, using so-called "ITAR-Free" satellites designed and built without US technology," the Arianespace director general ... more Noctis Labyrinthus, Labyrinth Of The Night 
Paris, France (ESA) Dec 03, 2007These images taken by the High-Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC), onboard ESA's Mars Express imaged the Noctis Labyrinthus region, the 'labyrinth of the night' on Mars. The HRSC took these pictures on 25 June 2006 in orbit 3155, with a ground resolution of approximately 16 m/pixel. Noctis Labyrinthus lies at approximately 6.5 south and 260 east. The Sun illuminates the scene from the north-west, t ... more |
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Paris, France (ESA) Dec 03, 2007The next time Jules Verne ATV's four solar arrays are fully deployed, giving the vehicle a total span of 22.3 m, will be in early 2008, at 28 000 km/h over the South Pacific Ocean. Just 100 minutes after lift-off, following separation from the Ariane 5 launcher, the x-shaped solar arrays will give the European vessel its characteristic dragonfly appearance. The automatic deployment of thes ... more An X-Ray Santa Claus In Orion 
Paris, France (ESA) Dec 03, 2007Right in time for the festive season, ESA's XMM-Newton X-ray observatory has discovered a huge cloud of high-temperature gas resting in a spectacular nearby star-forming region, shaped somewhat like the silhouette of Santa Claus. An early present for astronomers, the cloud suggests that hot gas from many star-forming regions leaks into the interstellar medium. The Orion nebula is the neare ... more The European Columbus Space Laboratory Set To Reach ISS 
Paris, France (ESA) Dec 03, 2007With NASA's announcement today of the launch of Space Shuttle Atlantis on 6 December, ESA astronauts Hans Schlegel, from Germany, and Leopold Eyharts, from France, are set to carry ESA's Columbus laboratory to the International Space Station. Atlantis is now scheduled to lift off from launch pad 39-A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida at 22:31 CET. Docking with the ISS is ... more Computer predicts Voyager 2 milestone 
Riverside, Calif. (UPI) Nov 29, 2007 A U.S. physicist has predicted an expected milestone in the journey of the Voyager 2 spacecraft will occur within the next several weeks. University of California-Riverside physicist Haruichi Washimi, using a computer model simulation, has predicted when the interplanetary spacecraft will cross the so-called "termination shock" -- a spherical shell around the solar system that marks the ... more UAV Sales Help IAI Bottom Line 
Haifa (UPI) Israel, Nov. 29, 2007In the latest of a series of robust earnings announcements from Israeli defense and security companies, Israel Aircraft Industries has touted a 56 percent increase in year-over-year quarterly earnings. This amounted to $36 million in net profit for the third quarter of 2006, according to an IAI statement. For the same period in 2006, net profit was $23 million; in 2005, $11 million. ... more |
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Tokyo (AFP) Nov 30, 2007Japanese electronics giant NEC Corp. said Friday it has created a world-first real-time translator on a cellphone, which can instantly turn Japanese travellers' words into English. One second after the phone hears speech in Japanese, the cellphone with the new technology shows the text on the screen. One second later, an English version appears. NEC said it was the first time in the worl ... more Aurora Borealis Breaks New Grounds - And Old Ice 
Paris, France (SPX) Dec 03, 2007It can crush ice sideways and stay precisely on station to an accuracy of a metre. It can drill a hole 1,000 metres deep into the seabed while floating above 5,000 metres of ocean and it can generate 55 megawatts of power. So far, Aurora Borealis is the most unusual ship that has never been built, and it represents a floating laboratory for European science, a breakthrough for polar research and ... more Global warming is pushing edges of tropics towards poles: study 
Paris (AFP) Dec 2, 2007The greenhouse effect is causing Earth's zone of tropical climate to creep towards the poles, according to a study whose release on Sunday coincided with the eve of a major UN conference on climate change. The poleward expansion of the tropics will have far-reaching impacts, notably in intensifying water scarcity in the Mediterranean and the US "Sun belt" as well as southern Africa and south ... more Duke Scientists Map Imprinted Genes In Human Genome 
Durham NC (SPX) Dec 03, 2007Scientists at Duke University have created the first map of imprinted genes throughout the human genome, and they say a modern-day Rosetta stone - a form of artificial intelligence called machine learning - was the key to their success. The study revealed four times as many imprinted genes as had been previously identified and is featured on the cover of the December 3 issue of Genome Research. ... more Between Water And Rock -- A New Science 
Blacksburg VA (SPX) Dec 03, 2007Water chemistry and mineralogy are scientific fields that have been around long enough to develop extensive knowledge and technologies. The boundary of water and rock, however, is not a thin wet line but the huge new field of nanoparticle science. Scientists are discovering that aquatic nanoparticles, from 1 to 100 nanometers, influence natural and engineered water chemistry and systems differen ... more
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