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New Missions To Investigate How Mars Turned HostileGreenbelt, MD (SPX) Nov 21, 2011 Maybe because it appears as a speck of blood in the sky, the planet Mars was named after the Roman god of war. From the point of view of life as we know it, that's appropriate. The Martian surface is incredibly hostile for life. The Red Planet's thin atmosphere does little to shield the ground against radiation from the Sun and space. Harsh chemicals, like hydrogen peroxide, permeate the soil. Liquid water, a necessity for life, can't exist for very long here-any that does not quickly evaporate in ... read more |
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 MRO Catches Mars Sand Dunes in Motion Images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show sand dunes and ripples moving across the surface of Mars at dozens of locations and shifting up to several yards. These observations reveal the pl ... more | .. |
 Launch Team Focuses on Unique Needs of Curiosity About the size of a small SUV and weighing as much as some cars, the Mars Science Laboratory "Curiosity" is being asked to conduct the most intensive examination of the surface of the red planet eve ... more | .. |
 MSL Entry, Descent and Landing Instrumentation Will Be A Data Rich Feed NASA's Mars Science Laboratory, which is set to launch Nov. 25, is expected to improve not only our knowledge of Mars, but also the science of hypersonic flight - more than five times the speed of s ... more | .. |
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 MSL launch delayed to Saturday Nov 26 The launch of a United Launch Alliance Atlas V carrying NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) has been delayed one day to allow time for the team to remove and replace a flight termination system bat ... more | .. |
  NASA's Hubble Confirms That Galaxies Are the Ultimate Recyclers New observations by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope are expanding astronomers' understanding of the ways in which galaxies continuously recycle immense volumes of hydrogen gas and heavy elements. This ... more | .. |
  NASA Develops New Game-Changing Technology Two NASA California centers have been selected to develop new space-aged technologies that could be game-changers in the way we look at planets from above and how we safely transport robots or human ... more | .. |
  Installation of Huge Assembly Stand Completed James Webb Space Telescope Flight Optics Northrop Grumman and its teammate ITT Exelis have finished installation of the giant structural steel frame used to assemble the mirrors and instruments of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). ... more |
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North Korea fires ballistic missiles as U.S.-South Korea joint military drill kicks off
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  VLBA observations key to 'complete description' of black hole For the first time, astronomers have produced a complete description of a black hole, a concentration of mass so dense that not even light can escape its powerful gravitational pull. Their precise m ... more | .. |
  Scientists Find Evidence for Subsurface 'Great Lake' on Europa In a finding of significance in the search for life beyond Earth, scientists have discovered what appears to be a body of liquid water the volume of the North American Great Lakes locked inside the ... more | .. |
 Cosmic particle accelerators get things going ESA's Cluster satellites have discovered that cosmic particle accelerators are more efficient than previously thought. The discovery has revealed the initial stages of acceleration for the first tim ... more | .. |
  High TV 3D Launches Via Astra SES has signed a capacity agreement with High TV 3D, a worldwide 3D general entertainment channel, primarily for cable distribution. High TV 3D will be distributed via the ASTRA 23.5 degrees East or ... more |
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  Gilat teams with RTComm and NIIR for Russian VSAT Network Gilat Satellite Networks has signed agreements with Russian-based service provider RTComm, the satellite service arm of Rostelecom Group), Russia's national telecommunications operator, and with NII ... more | .. |
 Loral Announces Stock Repurchase Program Loral Space and Communications has announced that its board of directors has approved a stock repurchase program under which the Company may repurchase up to 800,000 shares of its outstanding voting ... more | .. |
  Cosmic voyager has a layover in St. Louis Last January, two amateur meteorite hunters dropped by Randy Korotev's office at Washington University in St. Louis to show him their latest purchase, a 17-kilogram pallasite meteorite found in 2006 ... more | .. |
  China launches two satellites: state media China placed two satellites in orbit on Sunday, including a spacecraft that will collect and relay data for disaster relief efforts, state press reported. ... more |
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Scientists say Trump cuts threaten climate research, public safety
Trump's anti-diversity and immigration stance overshadows SXSW festival
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  Exo planet count tops 700 Just two decades after the search for planets outside our solar system began, scientists have found more than 700, a French astronomer says. ... more | .. |
 Shenzhou for Dummies The safe return of Shenzhou 8 has ended a highly successful mission for China's human spaceflight program. Although there were no astronauts aboard, this flight has been as dramatic and important as ... more | .. |
 Contested 'faster-than-light' experiment yields same results A fiercely contested experiment that appears to show the accepted speed limit of the Universe can be broken has yielded the same results in a re-run, European physicists said on Friday. But co ... more | .. |
  Pluto's Hidden Ocean When NASA's New Horizons cruises by Pluto in 2015, the images it captures could help astronomers determine if an ocean is hiding under the frigid surface, opening the door to new possibilities for l ... more |
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 NASA's Chandra adds to black hole birth announcement New details about the birth of a famous black hole that took place millions of years ago have been uncovered, thanks to a team of scientists who used data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory as we ... more | .. |
  LRO Camera Team Releases High Resolution Global Topographic Map of Moon The science team that oversees the imaging system on board NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has released the highest resolution near-global topographic map of the moon ever created. T ... more | .. |
  Delta Mariner offloads launch components at Vandenberg The United Launch Alliance Delta Mariner, which transported a Delta IV first stage, second stage and payload fairings for an anticipated 2012 launch, docked at the Vandenberg Boat Dock on South Base ... more | .. |
 Northrop Grumman Demonstrates Sunshield Flight Processes on Full-Size Model Of JWST Engineers at Northrop Grumman have confirmed how the James Webb Space Telescope's five ultra-thin sunshield layers are attached, folded and stowed for launch using the Sunshield Full-Scale Mockup te ... more |
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  NASA's New Upper Stage Engine Passes Major Test NASA conducted a successful 500-second test firing of the J-2X rocket engine on Wednesday, Nov. 9, marking another important step in development of an upper stage for the heavy-lift Space Launch Sys ... more | .. |
 Rocket engineer Wolfgang Jung a logistics expert for space science The Arctic, Antarctic, Australian outback or Brazil: Wolfgang Jung spends several months a year in the most remote places on Earth to prepare and launch sounding rockets - also known as rocket probe ... more | .. |
 China's spacecraft comes back to Earth China's unmanned spacecraft Shenzhou VIII returned to Earth on Thursday, state media reported, after completing two space dockings that have pushed forward the nation's ambitious space programme. ... more | .. |
 Weightless US teachers eye giant science leap "Excited," "nervous," "terrified" - just three emotions described by a group of US teachers about to take a dizzying "weightless" flight all for the cause of science, naturally. ... more |
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NASA Probe Data Show Liquid Water Evidence on Europa Data from a NASA planetary mission have provided scientists evidence of what appears to be a body of liquid water, equal in volume to the North American Great Lakes, beneath the icy surface of Jupit ... more | .. |
 Mobile Launcher Moves to Launch Pad The mobile launcher is making the longest trip of its young life to begin a two-week series of structural tests at Launch Pad 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. In anticipation of ... more | .. |
 Magnetic Fields Set the Stage for Star Birth Stars and their planets are born when giant clouds of interstellar gas and dust collapse. You've probably seen the resulting stellar nurseries in beautiful astronomical images: Colorful nebulae, lit ... more | .. |
  Cluster reveals Earth's bow shock is remarkably thin A new study based on data from ESA's Cluster mission has revealed that the bow shock formed by the solar wind as it encounters Earth's magnetic field is remarkably thin: it measures only 17 kilometr ... more |
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