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NASA Mars Rover Curiosity Looks at Ground Ahead, Moons AbovePasadena CA (JPL) Sep 20, 2012 A series of daily drives has taken NASA's Mars Rover Curiosity to a vantage point about halfway to a science destination area called Glenelg. The rover has been using its Mast Camera to examine the area ahead and also to catch special occasions when the Martian moons Phobos and Deimos pass in front of the sun from the rover's point of view. b>Curiosity Traverse Map Through Sol 43 br> /b> This map shows the route driven by NASA's Mars rover Curiosity through the 43rd Martian day, or sol, of the r ... read more |
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 NASA-JPL director Charles Elachi talks about latest Mars mission The car-sized Mars rover Curiosity, which landed on the Red Planet last month, is the biggest, most expensive and most ambitious planetary mission in many years. But it is just one of a sweepi ... more | .. |
  We are not alone Space exploration has become a national priority for China - and a Hong Kong scientist appointed to an international body searching for alien life says he is confident many of us will live to see th ... more | .. |
  Shuttle Carrier Aircraft and Space Shuttle Endeavour Land in Houston NASA's Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) with space shuttle Endeavour mounted on top landed at Houston's Ellington Field at 10:40 a.m. CDT. Public viewing at Ellington has been extended to 9 p.m. CDT, ... more | .. |
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  NASA Telescopes Spy Ultra-Distant Galaxy With the combined power of NASA's Spitzer and Hubble space telescopes, as well as a cosmic magnification effect, astronomers have spotted what could be the most distant galaxy ever seen. Light from ... more | .. |
 Berkeley Lab Sensors Enable First Light for the Dark Energy Camera Early in the morning of September 12 the Dark Energy Camera (DECam), mounted on the Victor Blanco Telescope at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, recorded its first images of a so ... more | .. |
  Gaia Payload Module Integration Completed Integration of the Flight Model of the Gaia Payload Module has been completed. It has undergone acceptance vibration testing; thermal balance and thermal vacuum testing will be carried out towards t ... more | .. |
 'Jake Matijevic' Contact Target for Curiosity The drive by NASA's Mars rover Curiosity during the mission's 43rd Martian day, or sol, (Sept. 19, 2012) ended with this rock about 8 feet (2.5 meters) in front of the rover. The rock is about ... more |
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  China launches another 2 navigation system satellites China successfully launched another two satellites into space for its indigenous global navigation and positioning network at 3:10 a.m. Beijing time on Wednesday. They were the 14th and 15th s ... more | .. |
 Dark Bands Run Through Light Layers This mosaic from the Mast Camera on NASA's Curiosity rover shows a close-up view looking toward the "Glenelg" area, where three different terrain types come together. All three types are observed fr ... more | .. |
 Astrium wins DEOS contract to demonstrate in-orbit servicing Astrium is preparing a new technology mission for the maintenance and disposal of satellites. At the ILA Berlin Air Show, the DLR Space Administration announced that Astrium Friedrichshafen will be ... more | .. |
 Mars rover to launch first rock study NASA's Curiosity Rover will study its first martial rock Friday, more than a month after landing on the Red Planet, mission officials said. ... more |
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 Improved positioning indoors The NAVVIS positioning system is primarily based on visual information. The TUM researchers had to develop a special location recognition system for this project. They started by taking photos of a ... more | .. |
 Capturing defective satellites in space - DLR awards contract to Astrium A service satellite captures an uncontrollable satellite in space, repairs or refuels it and, at the end of the mission, ensures that the defective satellite is disposed of in a controlled manner. S ... more | .. |
  Hubble Sees NGC 7090 - An actively star-forming galaxy This image portrays a beautiful view of the galaxy NGC 7090, as seen by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. The galaxy is viewed edge-on from the Earth, meaning we cannot easily see the spiral arms ... more | .. |
  HISPASAT chooses Arianespace to launch its Amazonas 4A and AG1 satellites Spanish operator Hispasat has once again chosen launch services company Arianespace, this time for its two satellites Amazonas-4A and Hispasat AG1. They will be the 8th and 9th satellites from the H ... more |
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Proposed 'weather control' bans surge across US states
Trump eyes 65% staff cut at US environmental agency
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 One Degree Imager Debuts at WIYN Telescope at KPNO The days when professional astronomers peered through telescopes are long gone. Today, the camera or other instrument that is attached to the telescope is as important as the telescope itself. Over ... more | .. |
  Pioneering UK project to improve land carbon intelligence accuracy and reliability British satellite imaging company DMC International Imaging Ltd (DMCii) is launching a ground-breaking project with support from the UK's innovation agency, the Technology Strategy Board to provide ... more | .. |
 Largest Magnetic Field Around Massive Star A group of astronomers led by Gregg Wade of the Royal Military College of Canada have used the Hobby-Eberly Telescope (HET) at The University of Texas at Austin's McDonald Observatory and the Canada ... more | .. |
 Arianespace signs multi-launch services agreement with SKY Perfect JSAT of Japan Shinji Takada, Representative Director, President and Chief Executive Officer of SKY Perfect JSAT Corporation, and Jean-Yves Le Gall, Chairman and CEO of Arianespace, has announced the signature of ... more |
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 e2v chosen to supply high performance imaging sensors for Japan's X-ray Free-Electron Laser e2v has been chosen to provide imaging sensors to form part of the next generation of focal plane imaging sensors in the SPring-8 Angstrom Compact free electron Laser (SACLA), an X-ray Free-Electron ... more | .. |
 Hyper Suprime-Cam Ushers In A New Era Of Observational Astronomy The installation of Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) onto the Subaru Telescope took place on August 16-17, 2012. The availability of this extraordinary new instrument marks the beginning of a new era in obse ... more | .. |
 New JWST Video Takes Viewers 'Beyond the Visible Light' There are a lot of things that are hidden from our sight, and NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is going to open up another world in the way we look at the cosmos. The Webb telescope is going to do ... more | .. |
 Failure Review Oversight Board Establishes Proton Return to Flight Schedule The Failure Review Oversight Board (FROB) concluded the review of the Russian State Commission report on September 11 concerning the root cause of the Russian Federal Telkom-3/Express MD-2 mission f ... more |
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 A celestial witch's broom? The Pencil Nebula is pictured in a new image from ESO's La Silla Observatory in Chile. This peculiar cloud of glowing gas is part of a huge ring of wreckage left over after a supernova explosion tha ... more | .. |
  Russia to start research base on the Moon According to Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, Russian cosmonauts have gained great experience working in orbit and have conducted a large number of scientific experiments at the ISS. All ... more | .. |
 Protection for Moon, Mars astronauts eyed Rocks on the Moon or Mars could be used to build shelters to possibly protect astronauts from dangerous cosmic radiation, European researchers say. ... more | .. |
  Brazil unveils tax incentives to boost tech innovation President Dilma Rousseff has approved new tax incentives to boost innovation in the information technology and telecommunications sectors, the official agencia Brasil reported Tuesday. ... more |
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  Space formula of Konstantin Tsiolkovsky 155 years ago, on September 17, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, one of the founding fathers of rocketry and astronautics, was born in the Russian province. One of his famous sayings goes: "Earth is the crad ... more | .. |
  Spacetime ripples from dying black holes could help reveal how they formed Researchers from Cardiff University have discovered a new property of black holes: their dying tones could reveal the cosmic crash that produced them. Black holes are regions of space where gravity ... more | .. |
 World's most powerful digital camera opens eye, records first images in hunt for dark energy Eight billion years ago, rays of light from distant galaxies began their long journey to Earth. That ancient starlight has now found its way to a mountaintop in Chile, where the newly-constructed Da ... more | .. |
 ITT Exelis announces new capability in GPS interference, detection and geolocation ITT Exelis has announced a significant development in the field of GPS technology. To be known as the Exelis GPS Interference, Detection and Geolocation (IDG), it will provide near real-time geoloca ... more |
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