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Slow-moving rocks better odds that life crashed to Earth from spacePrinceton NJ (SPX) Sep 25, 2012 Microorganisms that crashed to Earth embedded in the fragments of distant planets might have been the sprouts of life on this one, according to new research from Princeton University, the University of Arizona and the Centro de Astrobiologia (CAB) in Spain. The researchers report in the journal Astrobiology that under certain conditions there is a high probability that life came to Earth - or spread from Earth to other planets - during the solar system's infancy when Earth and its planetary neighb ... read more |
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  A windshield wiper for Mars dust Leading energy scientists from the UK and China are joining forces to develop green technology that will revolutionise the way electricity is distributed via national power grids. The investme ... more | .. |
 Life in the extreme Life in extreme environments - hot acids and heavy metals, for example - can apparently make very similar organisms deal with stress in very different ways, according to new research from North Caro ... more | .. |
  A Clock that Will Last Forever Imagine a clock that will keep perfect time forever, even after the heat-death of the universe. This is the "wow" factor behind a device known as a "space-time crystal," a four-dimensional crystal t ... more | .. |
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  NASA's Chandra Shows Milky Way is Surrounded by Halo of Hot Gas Astronomers have used NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory to find evidence our Milky Way Galaxy is embedded in an enormous halo of hot gas that extends for hundreds of thousands of light years. The est ... more | .. |
 Why Curiosity Matters Adam Steltzner doesn't sound much like an ordinary engineer. For instance, when we asked him if he would talk about Curiosity-and explain why the Mars rover matters to ordinary people--the for ... more | .. |
  China Spacesat gets 18-million-USD gov't support China Spacesat Co., Ltd., the nation's key developer of small satellites, said on Saturday that it will obtain 116 million yuan (18.3 million U.S. dollars) in government financial support. Fou ... more | .. |
  Russia's First Private Satellite to Be Launched in 2013 Russia's first satellite manufactured and operated by a private firm will be launched next year, Dauria Aerospace head Mikhail Kokorich told RBK daily. The DX1-class 50-kg satellite will be de ... more |
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  Lockheed Martin Achieves Key Software Milestone for Iridium NEXT Communications Satellite A "switchboard in the sky" for the Iridium NEXT constellation of global communication satellites is one step closer to becoming reality as Lockheed Martin completed a major software design milestone ... more | .. |
  Lockheed Martin Delivers Propulsion Core for the First GPS III Satellite The Lockheed Martin team developing the U.S. Air Force's next generation Global Positioning System III satellites has delivered the first spacecraft's propulsion core module to the company's Denver- ... more | .. |
 Northrop Grumman to Improve Performance of MEMS Inertial Sensors for DARPA Northrop Grumman has been awarded a subcontract from the University of California, Irvine to help address the long-term calibration of inertial sensors. Inertial sensors, which measure rotatio ... more | .. |
 NASA Mars Rover Targets Unusual Rock Enroute to First Destination NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has driven up to a football-size rock that will be the first for the rover's arm to examine. Curiosity is about 8 feet (2.5 meters) from the rock. It lies about halfway f ... more |
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 Robotic Arm Tools Get to Work Opportunity is continuing the in-situ (contact) science campaign at a putative location of clay minerals at the inboard edge of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour Crater. The rover is positione ... more | .. |
  Data that lives forever is possible: Japan's Hitachi As Bob Dylan and the Rolling Stones prove, good music lasts a long time; now Japanese hi-tech giant Hitachi says it can last even longer - a few hundred million years at least. ... more | .. |
 Drink, flirt, stumble home: there's a beer fest app for that Whether you want to know how long until you're sober, flirt with like-minded single revellers or where to stumble home after a few, help is only a click away at this year's Munich Oktoberfest. ... more | .. |
 Curiosity's Stars and Stripes This view of the American flag medallion on NASA's Mars rover Curiosity was taken by the rover's Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) during the 44th Martian day, or sol, of Curiosity's work on Mars (Sept. ... more |
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  NASA Selects Space Launch System Advanced Development Proposals NASA has selected 26 proposals from academia and industry for advanced development activities for the nation's next heavy lift rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS). Proposals selected under this NA ... more | .. |
 Discovery of an Ancient Celestial City Undergoing Rapid Growth Using the Multi-Object Infrared Camera and Spectrograph (MOIRCS) mounted on the Subaru Telescope, a team of astronomers led by Dr. Masao Hayashi (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan or NAOJ) ... more | .. |
  California Governor Signs the Spaceflight Liability and Immunity Act California Governor Jerry Brown has signed into law the Spaceflight Liability and Immunity Act, AB 2243. This law provides the necessary liability protections for compliant companies in the st ... more | .. |
 Processing is underway with the next Automated Transfer Vehicle to be orbited by Arianespace Initial checkout has begun at the Spaceport for Europe's fourth Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV), which is to be launched from French Guiana by Arianespace on a servicing mission to the Internationa ... more |
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 Astrochemistry Enters a Bold New Era with ALMA Combining the cutting-edge capabilities of the ALMA telescope with newly-developed laboratory techniques, scientists are opening a completely new era for deciphering the chemistry of the Universe. A ... more | .. |
  Orbiting Solar Fleet Peers Into Coronal Cavities The sun's atmosphere dances. Giant columns of solar material - made of gas so hot that many of the electrons have been scorched off the atoms, turning it into a form of magnetized matter we call pla ... more | .. |
 NuSTAR Celebrates First 100 Days Tomorrow, Sept. 21, 2012, will mark 100 days since NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, launched into space from the L-1011 "Stargazer" aircraft. Since completing its 30-da ... more | .. |
  B612 Wins Funding Support From Prominent Business Leadersy The world's first privately funded deep space mission - SENTINEL - received major support this week from prominent members of the business and financial community who joined the B612 Foundation's Fo ... more |
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  US space shuttle lands in LA after final flight The US space shuttle Endeavour took its final flight Friday, making a spectacular series of flypasts over California before landing in Los Angeles where it will retire near its birthplace. ... more | .. |
  Now it's official: Astronomical Unit endorsed by world body The world's top astronomical body has endorsed the definition of the "Astronomical Unit" (AU), a measurement used to calculate the distance between stars and planets. ... more | .. |
 Large Monolithic Imager sees first light on the Discovery Channel Telescope The Large Monolithic Imager (LMI), a camera built at Lowell Observatory and funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), recently took a set of first-light images on Lowell's 4.3-m Discovery Cha ... more | .. |
  Knight Foundation invests to accelerate data projects Six media innovation ventures that make it easier to access and use information on local communities, air quality, elections, demographics and more received a total of $2.22 million today as winners ... more |
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NASA Mars Rover Targets Unusual Rock En Route to First Destination NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has driven up to a football-size rock that will be the first for the rover's arm to examine. Curiosity is about 8 feet (2.5 meters) from the rock. It lies about hal ... more | .. |
 Fueling underway with the Galileo satellites for next Soyuz launch from French Guiana Both passengers for Arianespace's third Soyuz flight from French Guiana are entering their final processing phase, which includes fueling of the two Galileo navigation satellites prior to their in ... more | .. |
 Curious About Life: Interview with David Blake The Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover has 10 science instruments, and each will be used in the coming weeks and months to help characterize the environment of Mars and determine if the planet ... more | .. |
 First Images from SPOT 6 Satellite Astrium Services has posted the first images from the SPOT 6 satellite, just 3 days after its launch on 9 September. SPOT 6 will assure continuity of data from the series of satellites operati ... more |
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