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Paleoclimate Record Points Toward Potential Rapid Climate ChangesGreenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 09, 2011 New research into the Earth's paleoclimate history by NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies director James E. Hansen suggests the potential for rapid climate changes this century, including multiple meters of sea level rise, if global warming is not abated. By looking at how the Earth's climate responded to past natural changes, Hansen sought insight into a fundamental question raised by ongoing human-caused climate change: "What is the dangerous level of global warming?" Some internati ... read more |
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  Tidal Locking Could Render Habitable Planets Inhospitable Tidally-locked planets - planets with one side perpetually facing their star while the other remains shrouded in darkness - tend to be warmer on one side than the other. The presence of an atm ... more | .. |
 SETI Search Resumes at Allen Telescope Array The Allen Telescope Array (ATA) is once again searching planetary systems for signals that would be evidence of extraterrestrial intelligence. Among its first targets are some of the exoplanet candi ... more | .. |
  Solar Storms Could Sandblast the Moon Solar storms and associated Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) can significantly erode the lunar surface according to a new set of computer simulations by NASA scientists. In addition to removing a surpr ... more | .. |
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  Hubble Racks Up Ten Thousand Science Papers NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has passed another milestone in its 21 years of exploration: the 10,000th refereed science paper has been published. This makes Hubble one of the most prolific astronom ... more | .. |
 Northrop Grumman Makes Significant Progress With James Webb Space Telescope Northrop Grumman delivered to NASA the flight software that will enable the James Webb Space Telescope to communicate with its ground station nearly a million miles away after it passed formal verif ... more | .. |
  ESA selects Astrium to build Sentinel-5 Precursor satellite Furthering Europe's capacity to monitor atmospheric pollution, ESA has awarded a contract worth 45.5 million euro to Astrium UK to act as prime contractor for the Sentinel-5 Precursor satellite syst ... more | .. |
 Jason-1 Achieves a One-Decade Landmark On Dec. 7, 2001, NASA and the French Space Agency Centre Nationale d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES) launched the Jason-1 satellite from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., embarking on a planned three-to-fi ... more |
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Maxar Space Systems Secures Contract for New High-Power Communications Satellite
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 Landsat satellites Track Yellowstone Underground Heat Yellowstone National Park sits on top of a vast, ancient, and still active volcano. Heat pours off its underground magma chamber, and is the fuel for Yellowstone's famous features - more than 10,000 ... more | .. |
 GIS Cloud Featured at Eye on Earth Summit At the Eye on Earth Summit Esri will describe how cloud GIS is positioned to create an international geospatial platform for sharing environmental data and designing solutions. Also former US ... more | .. |
  Russia to put two more Glonass satellites into operation Two more Glonass navigation satellites will be up and running before the end of the year, Russian space officials said on Thursday. "We plan to put two more satellites into operation before th ... more | .. |
  Asteroid Vesta in a Rainbow-Colored Palette This image using color data obtained by the framing camera aboard NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows Vesta's southern hemisphere in color, centered on the Rheasilvia formation. Rheasilvia is an impa ... more |
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 Germans join probe of mobile phone tracker The German state of Bavaria and other European authorities said this week they have launched data privacy investigations of the Connect IQ mobile phone software. ... more | .. |
  Europe's Vega rocket launch set for early 2012 Europe's new Vega rocket, which can place a 1.5-ton satellite into low-Earth orbit, is expected to see its first launch early next year, Arianespace chief Jean-Yves Le Gall said Thursday. ... more | .. |
  Philatelic Cover Reveals the secret names of second Taikonaut team "The names of the seven military pilots selected in 2010 to form China's second group of taikonauts, which have been a closely guarded secret for the last 18 months, appear to have been released to ... more | .. |
 Satellite Data Shows that Kirtland's Warblers Prefer Forests After Fire Kirtland's warblers are an endangered species of lightweight little birds with bright yellow-bellies that summer in North America and winter in the Bahamas. But be it their winter or their summer ho ... more |
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Scientists establish link between Earth's orbital shifts and ice age cycles
Study reveals how rising temperatures could lead to population crashes
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  Early Earth may have been prone to deep freezes Two University of Colorado Boulder researchers who have adapted a three-dimensional, general circulation model of Earth's climate to a time some 2.8 billion years ago when the sun was significantly ... more | .. |
  Mars Opportunity Rover Finds Rich Vein Of Gypsum Water Deposits NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has found bright veins of a mineral, apparently gypsum, deposited by water. Analysis of the vein will help improve understanding of the history of wet envir ... more | .. |
 New Tool for Touring Mars Using Detailed Images An improved tool has been introduced for viewing channels, dunes, boulders and other features revealed in the huge image files from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on ... more | .. |
 Opportunity Spent Holiday at 'Turkey Haven' Opportunity spent the Thanksgiving holiday at a location called "Turkey Haven," on the north end of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour Crater. This particular location provided favorable northe ... more |
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  Boeing Receives USAF Reusable Booster System Contract Boeing has received a $2 million contract from the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to define requirements and design concepts for the Reusable Booster System (RBS) Flight and Ground Experi ... more | .. |
 Soyuz' second mission from French Guiana is readied at the Spaceport One of four mission campaigns currently underway for Arianespace is entering its final phase with the payload integration and completion of basic build-up for the Soyuz that will perform this medium ... more | .. |
 NASA Ready to Test Upgraded J-2X Powerpack For engineers working on the J-2X engine program, installation of the upgraded J-2X powerpack on the A-1 Test Stand on Dec. 5 had to feel like a long-awaited holiday gift. The powerpack consis ... more | .. |
 Lockheed Martin Selected USAF for Reusable Booster System Flight Demonstrator Program Lockheed Martin has been selected by the U.S. Air Force for a contract award to support the Reusable Booster System (RBS) Flight and Ground Experiments program. The value of the first task order is ... more |
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 On the record with Arianespace Arianespace Chairman and CEO Jean-Yves Le Gall and members of the company's management team are in Washington, DC this week for their traditional year-end visit and holiday event. While in the US na ... more | .. |
 Much Ado about Space Debris In recent days there has been a hutesium et clamor, otherwise known as a hue and cry, for a cleanup of space debris. The demand to remove all that space trash is admirable. The human race has been c ... more | .. |
  China to launch communications satellite for Turkmenistan China will launch a communications satellite for Turkmenistan with its Long March-3B carrier rocket in 2014, the Chinese launch contractor said on Tuesday. The satellite will be Turkmenistan's ... more | .. |
 United Launch Alliance Marks Five Years of Mission Success With 56 Launches in 60 Months United Launch Alliance was formed just five years ago, bringing together the world's two most experienced launch teams and two highly reliable launch systems, Atlas and Delta. ULA's unparalleled rec ... more |
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  What's That Sparkle in Cassini's Eye? The moon Enceladus, one of the jewels of the Saturn system, sparkles peculiarly bright in new images obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The images of the moon, the first ever taken of Ence ... more | .. |
  Record Massive Black Holes in Monster Galaxies University of California, Berkeley, astronomers have discovered the largest black holes to date - two monsters with masses equivalent to 10 billion Suns that are threatening to consume anything, eve ... more | .. |
  Ball Aerospace Delivers Orion Phased Array Antenna EDUs Ball Aerospace and Technologies has delivered two Phased Array Antenna (PAA) Engineering Development Units (EDUs) for the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle to prime contractor Lockheed Martin. ... more | .. |
 Orion Continues to Make a Splash Testing continues at NASA Langley Research Center as the 18,000-pound (8,164.6 kg) Orion test article took its seventh splash into the Hydro Impact Basin Dec. 1. Orion, NASA's next deep space ... more |
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