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'Greeley Haven' is Winter Workplace for Mars RoverPasadena CA (JPL) Jan 10, 2012 NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity will spend the next several months at a site informally named "Greeley Haven." The name is a tribute to planetary geologist Ronald Greeley (1939-2011), who was a member of the science team for the Mars rovers and many other interplanetary missions. The site is an outcrop that provides a sun-facing slope to aid in maintaining adequate solar power during the rover's fifth Martian winter. It also provides targets of scientific interest for the rover's robotic ... read more |
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  Astro Aerospace Completes CDA of Reflector Boom Assembly for SMAP Mission Astro Aerospace, a strategic business unit of Northrop Grumman, has completed a major milestone in the development of the reflector boom assembly (RBA) for NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) ... more | .. |
  New Computer Model Explains Lakes and Storms on Titan Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is an intriguing, alien world that's covered in a thick atmosphere with abundant methane. With an average surface temperature of a brisk -300 degrees Fahrenheit (about ... more | .. |
  China launches Ziyuan III satellite China successfully launched the Ziyuan III satellite Monday from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in northern Shanxi province. The satellite was launched at 11:17 a.m. Monday aboard a Long ... more | .. |
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  Orion Drop Test - Jan. 06, 2012 After six months of testing, an 18,000 pound (8,165 kg) Orion mockup took its final splash into NASA Langley Research Center's Hydro Impact Basin on Jan. 6. Orion, the next deep space explorat ... more | .. |
  Photographing the International Space Station from Your Own Backyard Photographing the International Space Station seems like something that could be done only from space, but taking a picture from your own backyard actually is easier than you might think. If y ... more | .. |
  NASA's James Webb Space Telescope: A Year of Achievement and Success The James Webb Space Telescope marked a year of significant progress in 2011 as it continues to come together as NASA's next generation space telescope. The year brought forth a pathfinder backplane ... more | .. |
 ISS Team Undertakes 'EPIC' Event Anyone who has ever been involved in a computer upgrade knows that they can be complicated, and that you have to take your time, be careful, and go step-by-step if you want to be successful. T ... more |
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 Fifty-Seven Student Rocket Teams to Take NASA Launch Challenge More than 500 students from middle schools, high schools, colleges and universities in 29 states will show their rocketeering prowess in the 2011-12 NASA Student Launch Projects flight challenge. Th ... more | .. |
 Stormy Skies and Garden Worlds A team of scientists has traveled to remote Laguna Negra in the central Andes of Chile to test technologies that could one day be used to explore the lakes of Titan. The Planetary Lake Lander (PLL) ... more | .. |
  Astronomers reach new frontiers of dark matter For the first time, astronomers have mapped dark matter on the largest scale ever observed. The results, presented by Dr Catherine Heymans of the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, and Associate Pro ... more | .. |
 European Radio Astronomy Leaps into Future with RadioNet3 On 1 January 2012, European radio astronomy entered a new era with the implementation of RadioNet3, the third iteration of RadioNet, the European radio astronomy collaboration. As the recognis ... more |
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 Europe's Vega rocket launch set for early February The maiden voyage of Europe's Vega rocket, designed to launch small payloads of about 1.5 tonnes into low-Earth orbit, is set for February 9, the head of the European Space Agency said Monday. ... more | .. |
  Stephen Hawking misses 70th birthday event in his honour British scientist Stephen Hawking has been forced to miss a scientific debate to mark his 70th birthday but sent an upbeat message saying he was living at a "glorious time". As scientists and ... more | .. |
  SpaceX To Be First To Use Solar Panels On A Manned US Spacecraft For its first mission to the International Space Station, SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft will use deployable solar arrays as its primary power source for running sensors, driving heating and cooling sys ... more | .. |
 China to launch Bolivian satellite in 2013: Chinese Ambassador China would put Bolivia's first telecommunications satellite into orbit in December 2013, China's Ambassador to Bolivia Shen Zhiliang announced Thursday. The manufacturing process of the satel ... more |
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FARMing with Data OpenET Introduces FARMS Tool to Aid Water Management
Heat from the Sun Linked to Seismic Activity on Earth
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 Mars rover to spend winter at 'Greeley Haven,' named for late ASU geologist Ronald Greeley NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity will spend the next few months during the coldest part of Martian winter at Greeley Haven, an outcrop of rock on Mars recently named informally to honor ASU ... more | .. |
 Trajectory Maneuver For Mars Lab Slated for January 11 An engine firing on Jan. 11 will be the biggest maneuver that NASA's Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft will perform on its flight between Earth and Mars. The action will use a choreographed s ... more | .. |
 Arianespace Set To Ride The Power of Three In 2012 Arianespace is preparing for the busiest year of flight activity ever in 2012, building on an industry leadership position that benefits from the operational synergy, availability and commercial adv ... more | .. |
 NPL and SUERC calibrate a 'rock clock' New research by the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) and the Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre (SUERC) will improve the accuracy of estimates of the time of geological events. Th ... more |
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Rocket pioneer Lowell Randall dies Lowell Randall, described as one of the "great pioneer rocket scientists" who launched the U.S. space program, died this week in New Mexico. ... more | .. |
 Failed Russian space probe to fall Up to 400 pounds of Russia's failed Phobos-Grunt Mars space probe could fall to Earth between Jan. 10 and 21, the Roscosmos space agency said Friday. ... more | .. |
 Hawking: Mankind must colonize space British physicist Stephen Hawking says mankind faces the threat of nuclear annihilation and should build colonies on Mars and beyond. ... more | .. |
 Spying on Tiangong In early January, the mass media went viral over a controversial story in the journal "Spaceflight", published by the British Interplanetary Society. To cut a long story short, "Spaceflight" claimed ... more |
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  'Mini moons' may surround Earth Hundreds of tiny moons may be orbiting Earth, as small asteroids get snagged by gravity and spend some time in orbit around the planet, Finnish researchers say. ... more | .. |
  Israel and US to hold joint missile drill Israel and the United States are to hold a joint missile defence exercise, the Israeli military said late on Thursday. ... more | .. |
 Happy New Year for European Radio Astronomy RadioNet3, a four-year, 9.5M euro project offering unprecedented access to 18 state-of-the-art European radio telescopes, including the ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter Array) in Chile and the James C ... more | .. |
 Ariane 5, Soyuz, Vega: Three world-changing launch vehicles After confirming its world leadership in 2011, Arianespace is now ramping up for operations in 2012. It aims to carry out seven Ariane 5 launches, five Soyuz launches and the first Vega launch. ... more |
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 Opportunity Well Positioned For Another Winter On Mars Opportunity is positioned for winter on the north end of "Cape York" on the rim of Endeavour Crater. The rover is tilted about 15 degrees to the north for favorable solar energy production. Op ... more | .. |
  Wanted: Habitable Moons As the Kepler space telescope continues to search for potentially habitable planets, it also may reveal moons that could host life. Three new simulations will help astronomers identify rocky satelli ... more | .. |
  Successful Compatibility Testing of UHF Hosted Payload on Intelsat-22 It's pretty cool to think about the power of satellite communications (SATCOM), and the advantages it provides for our military customers. What's definitely not cool is the fact that interoperabilit ... more | .. |
Rare Moon mineral found in Australia A mineral brought back to Earth by the first men on the Moon and long thought to be unique to the lunar surface has been found in Australian rocks more than one billion years old, scientists said Thursday. ... more |
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