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HiRISE Camera Details Dynamic Wind Action On Mars
Phoenix AZ (SPX) Jan 24, 2008Mars has an ethereal, tenuous atmosphere at less than 1 percent the surface pressure of Earth, so scientists working on The University of Arizona's High Resolution Imaging Experiment, or HiRISE, are challenged to explain the complex, wind-sculpted landforms they're now seeing in unprecedented detail. The HiRISE camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, the most powerful camera to orbit ... more Meteor impacts can have subtle effects 
Lower Hutt, New Zealand (UPI) Jan 23, 2008A New Zealand study suggests meteor impacts with the Earth can produce effects of a more subtle and insidious kind than just catastrophic extinction. Researchers at the Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences in Lower Hutt, New Zealand, said the shattering impact of meteors on rocks can produce increased groundwater-rock surface interaction, affecting the quality of groundwater tha ... more First Deputy PM Ivanov Slams Agency Over Glonass Failings 
Moscow (SPX) Jan 24, 2008Russian space agency Roscosmos must take responsibility for the operational shortcomings of the Glonass satellite navigation system, a first deputy prime minister said on Wednesday. Glonass (Global Navigation Satellite System), Russia's equivalent of the U.S. Global Positioning System (GPS), is designed for both military and civilian use and allows users to identify their positions in real time. ... more NASA astronauts report good communications 
Houston (UPI) Jan 23, 2008The U.S. space agency says a survey of its astronauts and flight surgeons reflects high degrees of trust and honesty in the reporting of safety concerns. The 65-item National Aeronautics and Space Administration survey was conducted by the Johnson Space Center, which collected responses through a Web-based system in September and October. Overall, 118 of NASA's 129 astronauts and flight ... more Volcanic deposits may aid lunar outposts 
Washington (UPI) Jan 23, 2008A U.S. study of radar images of the moon suggests deposits from early lunar volcanoes might be useful to astronauts at lunar stations. Bruce Campbell and associates at the National Air and Space Museum said ancient volcanic eruptions on the Moon produced deposits of fine-grained, often glass-rich, pyroclastic material. In some places, such as at the Aristarchus Plateau, the deposits can ... more |
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Longueuil, Canada (SPX) Jan 24, 2008Pratt and Whitney Canada joined Virgin Galactic in New York City to unveil detailed scale models of the world's first commercial passenger suborbital spacecraft, SpaceShipTwo, together with the launch aircraft, WhiteKnightTwo. Pratt and Whitney Canada's PW308 turbofan is the engine selected to power WhiteKnightTwo (WK2). Pratt and Whitney Canada (P and WC) is a United Technologies company. ... more Japanese astronaut to throw boomerang in space 
Tokyo (AFP) Jan 23, 2008A Japanese astronaut plans to throw a boomerang inside a space station to test how it can fly in zero gravity, an official said Wednesday. Astronaut Takao Doi, 53, is set to travel on a US shuttle in March to the International Space Station, where he will be in charge of construction of a Japanese scientific testing room. It is believed gravity is needed for a boomerang to fly back to th ... more Odin Satellite Operations Prolonged 
Solna, Sweden (SPX) Jan 24, 2008Swedish Space Corporation has been commissioned by the Swedish National Space Board to control and operate the scientific satellite Odin an additional year, until December 2008. Since last year, Odin is also part of the European Space Agency's third party mission programme. Odin was designed for a two-year mission and has now outlived the design goal life time by six years. Since the launc ... more British minister visits ESA space center 
Darmstadt, Germany (UPI) Jan 23, 2008Britain's minister of state for science visited the European Space Agency's operations center Wednesday -- the first visit from a British state secretary. Ian Pearson held discussions with ESA Director General Jean-Jacques Dordain and was also updated on European space activities and on the participation of British industry in ESA programs. Peterson also met with British industrial cont ... more New Discovery On Magnetic Reconnection To Impact Future Space Missions 
Paris, France (ESA) Jan 24, 2008ESA's Cluster mission has, for the first time, observed the extent of the region that triggers magnetic reconnection, and it is much larger than previously thought. This gives future space missions a much better chance of studying it. Space is filled with plasma (a gas composed of ions and electrons, globally neutral) and is threaded by magnetic fields. These magnetic fields store energy which c ... more |
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Geneva (AFP) Jan 23, 2008UN chief Ban Ki-moon warned Wednesday that stalled disarmament talks at a key negotiating body that includes 65 states must move forward in order to prevent arms races. The secretary general, speaking at the opening of the 2008 Conference on Disarmament, said the body had achieved major successes in the past, but was now "in danger of losing its way". "The Conference on Disarmament has a ... more Antarctic Ice Loss Speeds Up, Nearly Matches Greenland Loss 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Jan 24, 2008Ice loss in Antarctica increased by 75 percent in the last 10 years due to a speed-up in the flow of its glaciers and is now nearly as great as that observed in Greenland, according to a new, comprehensive study by NASA and university scientists. In a first-of-its-kind study, an international team led by Eric Rignot of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., and the University of Cal ... more EU threatens trade partners over global warming 
Brussels (AFP) Jan 23, 2008The European Commission brandished the threat on Wednesday of imposing restrictions on imports from countries that fail to follow its lead in tackling global climate change. European industry and business have warned that tough EU emissions targets could force some companies to move production to countries with easier environmental regulations, such as China and the United States. "There ... more Arctic ice-cap loss twice the size of France: research 
Paris (AFP) Jan 23, 2008The Arctic ice cap has shrunk by an area twice the size of France's land mass over the last two years, the Paris-based National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) said Wednesday. "The year 2008 promises to be a critical year on every level," said Jean-Claude Gascard, the body's research director and coordinator of European scientific mission Damocles, which is monitoring the effects of cl ... more Seismic Images Show Dinosaur-Killing Meteor Made Bigger Splash 
Austin TX (SPX) Jan 24, 2008The most detailed three-dimensional seismic images yet of the Chicxulub crater, a mostly submerged and buried impact crater on the Mexico coast, may modify a theory explaining the extinction of 70 percent of life on Earth 65 million years ago. The Chicxulub crater was formed when an asteroid struck on the coast of the Yucatan Peninsula. Most scientists agree the impact played a major role in th ... more
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