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Arianespace Powers On With 30 Years Of LaunchesParis, France (SPX) Dec 18, 2009 The new European launcher lifted off from the South American launch site at Kourou, French Guyana, with thundering engines - a day of enormous importance for the entire European space effort. This was the first time that the member states of the European Space Agency (ESA) launched their own rocket into space - the foundation stone of the extraordinary success story of the Ariane launcher ... read more |
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Washington DC (SPX) Dec 18, 2009NASA's Messenger mission team and cartographic experts from the U. S. Geological Survey have created a critical tool for planning the first orbital observations of the planet Mercury - a global mosaic of the planet that will help scientists pinpoint craters, faults, and other features for observation. The map was created from images taken during the Messenger spacecraft's three flybys of ... more  
Paris, France (ESO) Dec 18, 2009Astronomers have discovered the second super-Earth exoplanet for which they have determined the mass and radius, giving vital clues about its structure. It is also the first super-Earth where an atmosphere has been found. The exoplanet, orbiting a small star only 40 light-years away from us, opens up dramatic new perspectives in the quest for habitable worlds. The planet, GJ1214b, has a ... more  
Pasadena, Calif. (UPI) Dec 16, 2009 NASA says its Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's six science instruments resumed operations Wednesday after being suspended since an Aug. 26 computer reset. Scientists at the space agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif, which manages the mission, said they are now receiving new science data. "It's good to have the instruments back on," said Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter ... more |
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Washington DC (SPX) Dec 18, 2009NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered the smallest object ever seen in visible light in the Kuiper Belt, a vast ring of icy debris that is encircling the outer rim of the solar system just beyond Neptune. The needle-in-a-haystack object found by Hubble is only 3,200 feet across and a whopping 4.2 billion miles away. The smallest Kuiper Belt Object (KBO) seen previously in reflected ... more  
Huntsville AL (SPX) Dec 18, 2009A network of cameras deployed around the Arctic in support of NASA's THEMIS mission has made a startling discovery about the Northern Lights. Sometimes, vast curtains of aurora borealis collide, producing spectacular outbursts of light. Movies of the phenomenon were unveiled at the Fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco. "Our jaws dropped when we saw the movies for ... more 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Dec 18, 2009Certain environments on Earth that host life are very similar to places on Mars and other terrestrial planets, scientists have found. So if life can exist here, why not there? Nora Noffke is a geobiologist at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. She has found evidence of microbial life all over the world - in both modern and in fossil coastal areas. Bacteria that grow on beach ... more |
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