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Loss of Planetary Tilt Could Doom Alien LifeMoffett Field CA (SPX) Jan 13, 2012 Although winter now grips much of the Northern Hemisphere, those who dislike the cold weather can rest assured that warmer months shall return. This familiar pattern of spring, summer, fall and winter does more than merely provide variety, however. The fact that life can exist at all on Earth is closely tied to seasonality, which is a sign of global temperature moderation. The driver of our seasons is the slight "lean" Earth has in its rotational axis as it revolves around the Sun, known as ... read more |
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  Uncertainty grows over Russia Mars probe crash site Uncertainty over the location of the impending crash of Russia's failed Mars probe grew Friday, with an official saying it may end up in the Atlantic and not Pacific Ocean as suggested. ... more | .. |
 Space station to dodge superfast debris The International Space Station will need to dodge a small but superfast piece of orbiting communication debris Friday morning, the U.S. Space Command said. ... more | .. |
  Planets around stars are the rule rather than the exception There are more exoplanets further away from their parent stars than originally thought, according to new astrophysics research. In a new paper appearing in the Jan. 12 edition of the journal, ... more | .. |
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 ESA Coordinates International Satellite Reentry Campaign For Phobos-Grunt An international campaign to assess the imminent atmospheric reentry of Russia's Phobos-Grunt Mars craft is being coordinated by experts in ESA's Space Debris Office. Participants include NASA and R ... more | .. |
  Electron negativity cut in half by supercomputer While physicists at the Large Hadron Collider smash together thousands of protons and other particles to see what matter is made of, they're never going to hurl electrons at each other. No matter ho ... more | .. |
  Mars Science Lab Completes Biggest Maneuver On Route To Mars NASA's Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft successfully refined its flight path Wednesday with the biggest maneuver planned for the mission's journey between Earth and Mars. "We've completed a ... more | .. |
 Mars Express spots wrinkle ridges and grabens in Tempe Terra Tempe Terra is located at the northeastern edge of the Tharsis volcanic region and forms the transition zone between the southern highlands and the northern lowlands. This area is characterised by a ... more |
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  First Galileo satellite GIOVE-A outlives design life to reach sixth anniversary British satellite manufacturer Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) is celebrating the sixth year of transmission of signals from its GIOVE-A satellite, which signalled the start of Europe's ambit ... more | .. |
  NASA's Hubble Breaks New Ground with Distant Supernova Discovery NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has looked deep into the distant universe and detected the feeble glow from a star that exploded more than 9 billion years ago. This isn't just any dying star. It ... more | .. |
  Don't pass the buck, Roskosmos The head of Roskomos, Vladimir Popovkin, has insinuated that the embarrassing failure of Phobos-Grunt (which I wrote about earlier) could be attributed to a shadowy plot of some kind. "I don't want ... more | .. |
  Ziyuan III satellite sends back hi-res images The Ziyuan III satellite has sent back its first set of visual data days after the orbiter was successfully launched on Jan. 9 to produce high-resolution imagery for civilian use. According to ... more |
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 Scientists Discover a Saturn-like Ring System Eclipsing a Sun-like Star A team of astrophysicists from the University of Rochester and Europe has discovered a ring system in the constellation Centaurus that invites comparisons to Saturn. The scientists, led by Ass ... more | .. |
  Astronomers release unprecedented data set on celestial objects that brighten and dim Astronomers from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and the University of Arizona have released the largest data set ever collected that documents the brightening and dimming of stars ... more | .. |
 Star Destroyed in Supernova Was White Dwarf Last year's discovery of the nearest Type Ia supernova in decades - captured only 11 hours after it exploded - allowed astronomers to finally cinch the identity of the stars behind these explosions, ... more | .. |
 Stars Pop Onto the Scene in New Wise Image A new, large mosaic from NASA's Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) showcases a vast stretch of cosmic clouds bubbling with new star birth. The region - a 1,000-square-degree chunk of our Mil ... 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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 Astronomers Determine Color of the Milky Way Galaxy A team of University of Pittsburgh astronomers has announced the most accurate determination yet of the color of the (aptly named) Milky Way Galaxy: "a very pure white, almost mirroring a fresh spri ... more | .. |
 Kepler discovery establishes new class of planetary systems Using data from NASA's Kepler Mission, astronomers announced the discovery of two new transiting "circumbinary" planet systems - planets that orbit two stars. This work establishes that such "two su ... more | .. |
 Planet Population is Plentiful An international team, including three astronomers from the European Southern Observatory (ESO), has used the technique of gravitational microlensing to measure how common planets are in the Milky W ... more | .. |
  Boeing begins NASA solar electric propulsion study Boeing has begun work on a four-month NASA contract to develop a mission concept study for solar electric propulsion technologies. Under the $600,000 firm, fixed-price contract, Boeing will ev ... more |
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 Kepler Mission Finds Three Smallest Exoplanets Astronomers using data from NASA's Kepler mission have discovered the three smallest planets yet detected orbiting a star beyond our sun. The planets orbit a single star, called KOI-961, and are 0.7 ... more | .. |
  Canaveral has busy 2012 launch schedule The director of Florida's Cape Canaveral rocket range says a busy 2012 launch schedule is proof there's life after the end of NASA's shuttle program. ... more | .. |
 Stranded Mars probe to crash into ocean Sunday: Russia Russia's space agency on Wednesday pinpointed the likely trajectory of its stranded Mars probe, Phobos-Grunt, predicting it would crash into the Indian Ocean west of Jakarta later this week. ... more | .. |
 Android-powered watches get Internet savvy The Internet was strapped to wrists at the Consumer Electronics Show on Wednesday in the form of Android-powered "smart watches" that serve up online content along with telling time. ... more |
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 Milky Way teaming with 'billions' of planets: study The Milky Way is home to far more planets than previously thought, boosting the odds that at least one of them may harbour life, according to a study released Wednesday. ... more | .. |
 RXTE Helps Pinpoint Launch of Bullets in Black Hole Jet Using observations from NASA's Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) satellite and the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) radio telescope, an international team of astr ... more | .. |
 Fermi Space Telescope Explores New Energy Extremes After more than three years in space, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is extending its view of the high-energy sky into a largely unexplored electromagnetic range. Today, the Fermi team annou ... more | .. |
 Russia was well aware of Phobos-Grunt mission risks Phobos-Grunt, a failed Russian sample mission to a Martian moon, was launched despite risks of which Russian scientists were well aware, the head of the Russian space agency said on Tuesday. P ... more |
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  Ball Aerospace Submits Cryogenic Propellant Storage Mission Concept to NASA Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp. has submitted a mission concept study to NASA for the storage and transfer of cryogenic propellants in space. Ball Aerospace was one of four companies awa ... more | .. |
 ORBCOMM Announces Launch of VesselSat2 ORBCOMM has announced the successful launch of VesselSat2, an Automatic Identification Service (AIS) enabled satellite built by LuxSpace Sarl (LuxSpace), an affiliate of OHB System AG. VesselSat2 wa ... more | .. |
 When galaxy clusters collide A UC Davis graduate student who is leading a study of the collision of galaxy clusters 5 billion light years away will discuss the team's findings in a press briefing at the annual meeting of the Am ... more | .. |
 ARISSat-1/KEDR amateur radio satellite deorbits On January 4, 2012, the Amateur Radio satellite, ARISSat-1/KEDR ended its 5 month mission as it deorbited through Earth's atmosphere. A report from the AMSAT web site states, "The last full telemetr ... more |
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