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You're beautiful, VestaLos Angeles CA (SPX) May 11, 2012 When UCLA's Christopher T. Russell looks at the images of the protoplanet Vesta produced by NASA's Dawn mission, he talks about beauty as much as he talks about science. "Vesta looks like a little planet. It has a beautiful surface, much more varied and diverse than we expected," said Russell, a professor in UCLA's Department of Earth and Space Sciences and the Dawn mission's principal investigator. "We knew Vesta's surface had some variation in color, but we did not expect the diversity that we s ... read more |
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  IBEX Reveals a Missing Boundary At the Edge Of the Solar System Washington DC (SPX) May 11, 2012 For the last few decades, space scientists have generally accepted that the bubble of gas and magnetic fields generated by the sun - known as the heliosphere - move ... more | .. |
  Free-floating planets in the Milky Way outnumber stars by factors of thousands A few hundred thousand billion free-floating life-bearing Earth-sized planets may exist in the space between stars in the Milky Way. So argues an international team of scientists led by Professor Ch ... more | .. |
  NASA Spacecraft Detects Changes in Martian Sand Dunes NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has revealed that movement in sand dune fields on the Red Planet occurs on a surprisingly large scale, about the same as in dune fields on Earth. This is unexpecte ... more | .. |
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 Dawn reveals complexities of ancient asteroidal world New findings from NASA's Dawn spacecraft lay the groundwork for the first geological overview of asteroid (4)Vesta and confirm the existence of not one but two giant impact basins in its southern he ... more | .. |
 Opportunity Rolling Again After Fifth Mars Winter With its daily supply of solar energy increasing, NASA's durable Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has driven off the sunward-tilted outcrop, called Greeley Haven, where it worked during its fifth ... more | .. |
 NASA Dawn Mission Reveals Secrets of Large Asteroid NASA's Dawn spacecraft has provided researchers with the first orbital analysis of the giant asteroid Vesta, yielding new insights into its creation and kinship with terrestrial planets and Earth's ... more | .. |
 Asteroid collision that spawned Vesta's asteroid family occurred more recently than thought A team of researchers led by a NASA Lunar Science Institute (NLSI) member based at Southwest Research Institute has discovered evidence that the giant impact crater Rheasilvia on Asteroid (4) Vesta ... more |
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 Unseen planet revealed by its gravity More than a 150 years ago, before Neptune was ever sighted in the night sky, French mathematician Urbain Le Verrier predicted the planet's existence based on small deviations in the motion of Uranus ... more | .. |
 Vesta - a planet-like asteroid Even though it doesn't quite qualify as a 'proper' planet, the second most massive asteroid in the Solar System, Vesta - which has a diameter of approximately 530 kilometres - exhibits numerous plan ... more | .. |
 Ultra-cool companion helps reveal giant planets An international team of astronomers led by David Pinfield of the University of Hertfordshire has found a brown dwarf that is more than 99% hydrogen and helium. Described as ultra-cool, it has ... more | .. |
 VISTA views a vast ball of stars Globular clusters are held together in a tight spherical shape by gravity. In Messier 55, the stars certainly do keep close company: approximately one hundred thousand stars are packed within a sphe ... more |
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 Oslo-experiment may explain massive star explosions Ground-breaking research in nuclear physics at the University of Oslo may help astrophysicists understand how the heavier elements in our universe were made. The Big Bang only produced the lightest ... more | .. |
  Sunspot Has Produced M-Class Flares, But No CMEs A particularly large and complex sunspot appeared over the left limb of the sun on Saturday, May 5, beginning its two-week trek across the face of the star in conjunction with the sun's rotation. Th ... more | .. |
  Europe delivers first JWST instrument The first instrument to be completed for the James Webb Space Telescope, MIRI, was handed over by the European consortium that built it to ESA at a ceremony held in London this week, and will now be ... more | .. |
  ESA declares end of mission for Envisat Just weeks after celebrating its tenth year in orbit, communication with the Envisat satellite was suddenly lost on 8 April. Following rigorous attempts to re-establish contact and the investigation ... more |
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Rare tropical cyclone swirls off eastern Australia
Hundreds evacuated as torrential rains flood Indonesia capital
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  Messenger Gains Deputy Principal Investigator Larry Nittler, a staff scientist in the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, has been named deputy principal investigator of the Messenger mission. Messenge ... more | .. |
  Middle School Students Send Commands to the International Space Station While only about 200 astronauts have had the thrill of looking down at Earth and commanding systems on the International Space Station, literally thousands of everyday middle-school students have ex ... more | .. |
 Technology developed at Caltech measures Martian sand movement Last year, images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured sand dunes and ripples moving across the surface of Mars-observations that challenged previously held beliefs that there was not a ... more | .. |
  Beyond Pluto And Exploring the Kuiper Belt New Horizons remains healthy and on course, now more than 23 times as far from the Sun as the Earth is. We will be 32.9 times as far from the Sun as the Earth is when we reach Pluto in three years, ... more |
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  Shared space the safest way The US space shuttle is no longer in service, and it will likely be several years before the United States can resume independent human spaceflight. As a result, China's upcoming Shenzhou IX mission ... more | .. |
  Massive black holes halt star birth in distant galaxies Astronomers, using the European Space Agency's (ESA) Herschel Space Observatory, have shown that the number of stars that form during the early lives of galaxies may be influenced by the massive bla ... more | .. |
 Prof Active In Mission To Determine Climate Change And Life On Mars NASA's top scientists - including a Texas A and M University researcher - hope to find out how Mars' climate has evolved over billions of years, and answers could come soon in the mission involving ... more | .. |
  A Soyuz takes shape in French Guiana for the next dual Galileo satellite launch The launcher for Arianespace's next Soyuz mission from the Spaceport in French Guiana is completing its initial checkout for a flight in the second half of 2012, which will carry another two spacecr ... more |
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  NASA Conducts Tests on Orion Service Module Engineers at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center are testing parts of the Orion service module to ensure the spacecraft can withstand the harsh realities of deep space missions. To date, Marshall ha ... more | .. |
  Curtiss-Wright Controls Awarded Contract By Alenia Aermacchi Curtiss-Wright Controls has announced that it has received a contract from Alenia Aermacchi S.p.A. to supply rugged data acquisition subsystems for use in the Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle (IXV) ... more | .. |
 TDRS-4 Mission Complete; Spacecraft Retired From Active Service The Tracking and Data Relay Satellite 4 (TDRS-4) recently completed almost 23 years of operations support and successfully completed end-of-mission de-orbit and decommissioning activities. TDRS-4's ... more | .. |
 Pratt and Whitney Rocketdyne Propulsion Orbits Critical Communications Satellite for US Military Pratt and Whitney Rocketdyne upperstage propulsion successfully orbited the second in a series of Advanced Extremely High-Frequency (AEHF) communications satellites for the U.S. military once again ... more |
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  United Launch Alliance IAMAW Employees Ratify New Contract United Launch Alliance has been notified that the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAMAW) representing its workforce at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., Decatur, ... more | .. |
 KIT Researchers Succeed in Realizing a New Material Class A research team lead by Professor Martin Wegener at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) has succeeded in realizing a new material class through the manufacturing of a stable crystalline meta ... more | .. |
 Russia could join U.S. in Mars mission Russia would be willing to be a partner with the United States on a manned mission to Mars, a Russian space official said at the United Nations. ... more | .. |
 Flight Hardware Completed For Tower Supporting Space Telescope Mirrors, Science Instruments Northrop Grumman has completed the flight composite components for the structure that connects the Optical Telescope Element to the spacecraft on NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. Northrop Grumman ... more |
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