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Researchers find evidence of ice content at the moon's south poleBoston MA (SPX) Jun 21, 2012 If humans are ever to inhabit the moon, the lunar poles may well be the location of choice: Because of the small tilt of the lunar spin axis, the poles contain regions of near-permanent sunlight, needed for power, and regions of near-permanent darkness containing ice - both of which would be essential resources for any lunar colony. The area around the moon's Shackleton crater could be a prime site. Scientists have long thought that the crater - whose interior is a permanently sunless abyss - may ... read more |
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  Announcement of Higgs boson find imminent? One of the most anticipated announcements in science could be imminent, that the Higgs boson may finally, really have been discovered, physicists say. ... more | .. |
  US military launches new satellite into space The US military launched an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral on Wednesday carrying a top secret satellite into space, officials said. ... more | .. |
  Space is Big, But Getting Smaller Last week there was an event that tells us the "end" is nearing; the end of BIG SPACE. Ever since the first satellite was launched some 55 years ago, the space community has thought of space as bein ... more | .. |
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  Soil Moisture Climate Data Record observed from Space The future of the world's climate is determined by various parameters, such as the density of clouds or the mass of the Antarctic ice sheet. One of these crucial climate parameters is soil moisture, ... more | .. |
  Orbiter Out of Precautionary 'Safe Mode' NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter has been taken out of a protective status called safe mode. Remaining steps toward resuming all normal spacecraft activities will probably be completed by next week. ... more | .. |
  Atlas V Launches Launches NRO Spysat The 45th Space Wing successfully launched a United Launch Alliance-built Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex 41 carrying a classified National Reconnaissance Office satellite. This was a ... more | .. |
 Researchers calculate size of particles in Martian clouds of CO2 snow In the dead of a Martian winter, clouds of snow blanket the Red Planet's poles - but unlike our water-based snow, the particles on Mars are frozen crystals of carbon dioxide. Most of the Martian atm ... more |
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  Compact Blue Dwarf Can't Hide from Hubble The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured this view of the dwarf galaxy UGC 5497, which looks a bit like salt sprinkled on black velvet in this image. The object is a compact blue dwarf galax ... more | .. |
 First Flight Instrument Delivered for James Webb George Rieke, MIRI Science Team Lead at University of Arizona, Tucson, noted, "MIRI is the first Webb instrument to be delivered, the result of teamwork in the U.S. and internationally." MIRI ... more | .. |
 NASA Selects Low Cost, High Science Earth Venture Space System NASA has selected an ocean wind study proposal led by the University of Michigan from among 19 submitted to the agency's Announcement of Opportunity for small spaceflight investigations of the Earth ... more | .. |
  DeLorme and Pivotel Partner to Deliver inReach Satellite Communicator in Australasia and Indonesia DeLorme has announced a partnership with Pivotel Satellite, the leading provider of mobile satellite services in Australia. As a Delorme service partner, Pivotel will deliver the award-winning inRea ... more |
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  Via satellite: staying in touch at sea Working on the high seas can be lonely separated from friends and family for weeks at a time. Communications via satellite close this gap by providing the means to stay in touch. Now, with ESA's sup ... more | .. |
  SES Gathers Momentum In Asia-Pacific With Further Significant Fleet Investment The increasing popularity of direct-to-home (DTH) satellite television and the growing demand for High Definition (HD) broadcast content across Asia-Pacific are driving the demand for satellite capa ... more | .. |
  Seven scientists named as research team leaders for NSBRI The National Space Biomedical Research Institute (NSBRI) has enlisted seven of the nation's top scientists to serve as team leaders in its efforts to protect astronaut health during long-duration sp ... more | .. |
  Robotics 101 - With NASA's Chris McQuin + Jaret Matthews When you hear the word "robot," you might think of Hollywood creations such as the Terminator, C-3PO or Megatron. Thankfully, the reality of current robotics isn't quite that sinister, emotional or ... more |
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Beyond the burn: Harvesting dead wood to reduce wildfires and store carbon
Helium Found in Earth's Core Suggests New Insights into Planetary Formation
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 Optimal Satcom and O3b Networks Enter into a Strategic Partnership Agreement Optimal Satcom and O3b Networks announced that they have entered into a strategic partnership agreement whereby Optimal Satcom will provide enterprise capacity management systems to O3b and its cust ... more | .. |
 Science world commemorates father of computer science Scientists will gather from Bangalore to Texas on Saturday to honour British mathematician Alan Turing, a pioneer of the modern computer whose code-cracking is credited with shortening World War II. ... more | .. |
  Rocket Scientist Who 'Spied for China' Freed The former head of a Russian rocket technology firm who was jailed in 2007 for selling state secrets to China has been released on parole, Radio Liberty reported. Igor Reshetin, the former dir ... more | .. |
 Backup Plans for Tiangong So far, so good. The first crewed expedition to China's Tiangong 1 space laboratory has been highly successful, with three astronauts travelling to the module and beginning work. In just a few days, ... more |
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  UK Space Agency makes stellar investment in mission to the Sun The UK Space Agency has announced a planned 11.5M pound investment for the scientific payloads for Solar Orbiter - the first medium (M-class) mission in the European Space Agency's (ESA) Cosmic Visi ... more | .. |
 Black Holes as Particle Detectors Finding new particles usually requires high energies - that is why huge accelerators have been built, which can accelerate particles to almost the speed of light. But there are other creative ways o ... more | .. |
  Trial by vacuum brings next Galileo satellites closer to launch The next two Galileo navigation satellites have now endured the harsh vacuum and temperature extremes of space on the way to their scheduled 28 September launch. The fourth satellite completed 20 da ... more | .. |
 Anniversary in space - five years of TerraSAR-X Five years ago on 15 June 2007, the German TerraSAR-X radar satellite was launched from Russia's Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. This marked the beginning of a new era in satellite remote sensing ... more |
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  Why Won't the Supernova Explode? Somewhere in the Milky Way, a massive old star is about to die a spectacular death. As its nuclear fuel runs out, the star begins to collapse under its own tremendous weight. Crushing pressure trigg ... more | .. |
 A milestone in launcher preparations for Arianespace's fourth Ariane 5 flight of 2012 Initial assembly of the fourth Ariane 5 for launch by Arianespace in 2012 has been completed at the Spaceport in French Guiana, marking a new milestone in preparations for a mission to loft a dual-p ... more | .. |
 Boeing Completes Fifth GPS IIF Satellite for USAF Boeing has completed the fifth of 12 Global Positioning System (GPS) IIF satellites the company is building for the U.S. Air Force. The spacecraft was built at the Satellite Development Center in El ... more | .. |
  New Gravitational Biology Lab Allows for Testing in Artificial Gravity NASA is expanding its existing capabilities for doing plant and animal tissue investigations on the International Space Station with the delivery of a new centrifuge scheduled for this summer. The c ... more |
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 Neutrons escaping to a parallel world? In a paper recently published in EPJ C, researchers hypothesised the existence of mirror particles to explain the anomalous loss of neutrons observed experimentally. The existence of such mirror mat ... more | .. |
 ESA tests self-steering rover in 'Mars' desert ESA assembled a top engineering team then challenged them to devise a way for rovers to navigate on alien planets. Six months later, a fully autonomous vehicle was charting its own course through Ch ... more | .. |
  Did You Say 1.2 Billion Particles Per Month? If you want to understand the origin of the universe, you need a lot of power. That's exactly why the International Space Station is the perfect research platform for the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer ... more | .. |
 Physicists use ultrafast lasers to create first tabletop X-ray device An international research team led by the University of Colorado Boulder has generated the first laser-like beams of X-rays from a tabletop device, paving the way for major advances in many fields i ... more |
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