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Russia and Europe give boost to Mars robotic missionMoscow (Voice of Russia) Apr 09, 2012 Russia's participation in ExoMars program is approaching. A meeting of ESA and Roscosmos is scheduled for April, 6. The European landing mission to Mars may prove to be a salvation for the Russian planetary program. Russia is a natural partner for ESA after NASA terminated its participation in ExoMars program. Still, disputes on space exploration tasks are far from being resolved. b>Mars dreaming br> /b> On April 6, Jean-Jacques Dordain, European Space Agency's (ESA's) Director General is meetin ... read more |
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 Post Solstice Rover Takes The Opportunity For A Wiggle Opportunity is positioned on the north end of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour Crater with an approximate 15-degree northerly tilt for favorable solar energy production. The winter solstice (March ... more | .. |
  Russia Plans to Launch Lunar Rovers to Moon after 2020 Russia plans to send two lunar rovers to Moon after 2020 and a landing station after 2022 as the first steps to form the future manned lunar base there, the country's Academy of Sciences said in its ... more | .. |
  Russia Wants To Bind Satellite To Apophis Asteroid Russia plans to send a satellite with a radio beacon to near-Earth asteroid of 99942 Apophis for finding out how big is a threat of its collision with Earth, the country's Academy of Sciences said i ... more | .. |
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  A magnetic surprise for Venus Express Venus is a rarity among planets - a world that does not internally generate a magnetic field. Despite the absence of a large protective magnetosphere, the near-Venus environment does exhibit a numbe ... more | .. |
  Russia to shift space launches to Plesetsk, Vostochny The number of space launches from Russia-based space ports Plesetsk and Vostochny must rise from 25% to 90% by 2020. This ambitious goal was laid down in the state space development project pr ... more | .. |
  Russia Plans First Tourist Spaceport The Uniparx Development company said on Thursday it was planning to build a spaceport in central Russia near the birthplace of Yury Gagarin, the first man to conquer space. The Russian spacepo ... more | .. |
  NASA Extends Kepler, Spitzer, Planck Missions NASA is extending three missions affiliated with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. - Kepler, the Spitzer Space Telescope and the U.S. portion of the European Space Agency's Planck mi ... more |
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  Skygate And SES Sign Agreement For Distribution Of SES' Satellite Broadband Service In The Middle East SES and SkyGate has announced that they have signed a five year contract for the distribution of SES' successful satellite broadband service SES Broadband, formerly known as ASTRA2Connect, in the Mi ... more | .. |
 KVH mini-VSAT Broadband Network has the largest market share Launched in late 2007, the mini-VSAT Broadband service from KVH Industries, Inc. has quickly grown to become the world's leading maritime VSAT network, according to a new industry research report fr ... more | .. |
  ONR Grant Expands Research of Typhoons, Monsoons, Internal Waves in Asia-Pacific The University of Miami (UM) announced that it has received a grant from the U.S. Office of Naval Research to expand its use of SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) in the Asia-Pacific Region. The new $1. ... more | .. |
 China makes public satellite data products The State Oceanic Administration (SOA) on Friday gave the public access to data products of the oceanic surveying satellite Haiyang-2, which monitors maritime environment and extreme weather. ... more |
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  Colombia's tinted gold passes for precious stones All that glitters is gold under a new thermochemical process developed by Colombian engineers for color-tinting the precious metal to make it look like sapphires, rubies or emeralds. ... more | .. |
 Russia wants to puts satellite on asteroid Russian scientists said Saturday they plan on binding a satellite with a radio beacon to an asteroid that will pass close to Earth. ... more | .. |
 Russia to explore moon Russian scientists said Saturday they plan to put two lunar rovers on the moon by 2020 and a landing station after 2022. ... more | .. |
 Key ice shelf in Antarctica has shrunk by 85 percent A vast ice shelf in the Antarctic peninsula, a hotspot for global warming, has shrunk by 85 percent in 17 years, the European Space Agency (ESA) said on Thursday. ... more |
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Tree planting remains the most effective carbon removal strategy despite climate and economic uncertainties
FARMing with Data OpenET Introduces FARMS Tool to Aid Water Management
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 ESA and NASA join forces to measure Arctic sea ice Marking another remarkable collaborative effort, ESA and NASA met up over the Arctic Ocean this week to perform some carefully coordinated flights directly under CryoSat orbiting above. The data gat ... more | .. |
  Thawing permafrost may have led to extreme global warming events Scientists analysing prehistoric global warming say thawing permafrost released massive amounts of carbon stored in frozen soil of Polar Regions exacerbating climate change through increasing global ... more | .. |
 Rising CO2 levels linked to global warming during last deglaciation Many scientists have long suspected that rising levels of carbon dioxide and the global warming that ended the last Ice Age were somehow linked, but establishing a clear cause-and-effect relationshi ... more | .. |
 Thawing permafrost 50 million years ago led to global warming events In a new study reported in Nature, climate scientist Rob DeConto of the University of Massachusetts Amherst and colleagues elsewhere propose a simple new mechanism to explain the source of carbon th ... more |
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  Particle collider runs at record energies The Large Hadron Collider is operating again after a winter break, at higher energies than ever, officials at CERN, the European nuclear research center, said. ... more | .. |
  Murdoch's Sky News admits hacking 'canoe' man's emails Sky News, the British broadcaster partly owned by Rupert Murdoch, admitted on Thursday that it had illegally hacked into the emails of a man who notoriously faked his own death in a life insurance scam. ... more | .. |
  Plutonium to Pluto: Russian nuclear space travel breakthrough A ground-breaking Russian nuclear space-travel propulsion system will be ready by 2017 and will power a ship capable of long-haul interplanetary missions by 2025, giving Russia a head start in the o ... more |
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  Cosmic 'Leaf Blower' Robs Galaxy of Star-Making Fuel Supernova explosions and the jets of a monstrous black hole are scattering a galaxy's star-making gas like a cosmic leaf blower, a new study finds. The findings, which relied on ultraviolet observat ... more | .. |
 The dark heart of a cosmic collision Two of ESA's space observatories have combined to create a multi-wavelength view of violent events taking place within the giant galaxy of Centaurus A. The new observations strengthen the view that ... more | .. |
 New isotope measurement could alter history of early solar system The early days of our solar system might look quite different than previously thought, according to research at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory published in Science ... more | .. |
 CODITA: measuring the cosmic dust swept up by the Earth CODITA has received a EUR 2.5 million grant from the European Research Council to investigate the dust input over the next 5 years. The international team, led by Professor Plane, is made up of 11 s ... more |
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 Observing the galaxy distribution when the universe was half its current age At the UK-Germany National Astronomy Meeting NAM2012, the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) team announced the most accurate measurement yet of the distribution of galaxies between five ... more | .. |
 NASA's SOFIA Captures Image of Dying, Outflowing Star Researchers using NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) have captured an infrared image of the last exhalations of a dying sun-like star. The object observed by SOFIA, plan ... more | .. |
  Cassini makes simultaneous measurements of Saturn's nightside aurora and electric current system Since the NASA / ESA Cassini-Huygens spacecraft arrived at Saturn in 2004, astronomers and space scientists have been able to study the ringed planet and its moons in great detail. Now, for the firs ... more | .. |
 Milky Way image reveals detail of a billion stars More than one billion stars in the Milky Way can be seen together in detail for the first time in an image captured by an international team of astronomers. Scientists created the colour picture by ... more |
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