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  Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 07, 2018 This image was originally meant to track the movement of sand dunes near the North Pole of Mars, but what's on the ground in between the dunes is just as interesting! The ground has parallel dark and light stripes from upper left to lower right in this area. In the dark stripes, we see piles of boulders at regular intervals. What organized these boulders into neatly-spaced piles? In the Arctic back on Earth, rocks can be organized by a process called "frost heave." With frost heave, repeated ... read more |
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Britain hopes to keep stars aligned with EU's space projectsPortsmouth, United Kingdom (AFP) March 7, 2018 Dressed in a white protective suit, British astronaut Tim Peake listened attentively as technicians explained details of their new satellite - a European project in Brexit Britain. ... more  
Kremlin says no interest in US arms race in 'invincible weapons' rowMoscow (AFP) March 2, 2018 The Kremlin on Friday said Russia will not be part of a new arms race as the United States and NATO voiced concern over Vladimir Putin's boasts of new "invincible" weapons. ... more  
Lessons from the Tunguska eventMoscow (Sputnik) Mar 07, 2018 Russia's state emergency center has shared some of the most worrisome scenarios that presumably await planet Earth in the decades to come, and, most importantly, outlined how dangerous the contact w ... more  
Keeping astronauts safe in inflatable habitatsDaytona Beach FL (SPX) Mar 06, 2018 At first, inflatable habitats in orbit around Earth may sound like a dangerous idea, given that the vacuum of space is littered with, as NASA says, "millions of pieces of human-made debris or space ... more |
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Latest Updates from NASA on IMAGE RecoveryLaurel MD (SPX) Mar 07, 2018 Late on March 4, 2018, personnel at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab in Laurel, Maryland, reported detecting IMAGE's signal for the first time after losing contact on Feb. 24. However the signa ... more  
Three-dimensional skyrmion: Scientists observe theoretical particle for first timeWashington (UPI) Mar 2, 2018 Forty years after scientists first theoretically predicted the existence of a three-dimensional skyrmion, scientists have observed the particle in the lab. ... more 
Exotic state of matter: An atom full of atomsVienna, Austria (SPX) Mar 06, 2018 What is inside an atom, between the nucleus and the electron? Usually there is nothing, but why could there not be other particles too? If the electron orbits the nucleus at a great distance, there ... more  
Research gives optical switches the 'contrast' of electronic transistorsPhiladelphia PA (SPX) Mar 05, 2018 Current computer systems represent bits of information, the 1's and 0's of binary code, with electricity. Circuit elements, such as transistors, operate on these electric signals, producing outputs ... more  
SpaceX carries out 50th launch of Falcon 9 rocketMiami (AFP) March 6, 2018 SpaceX carried out the 50th launch of its signature Falcon 9 rocket early Tuesday, a swift ascent to a milestone which many aerospace giants take far longer to attain. ... more |
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Pentagon pouring more money into hypersonic missile technologiesWashington DC (Sputnik) Mar 03, 2018 The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has received increased funds for the development of hypersonic weapons, the agency's director, Steven Walker, said amid Moscow's revelations ... more  |
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NASA, partners seek input on standards for deep space technologiesWashington DC (SPX) Mar 06, 2018 In order to maximize investment in, and benefits of, future deep space exploration platforms and technologies, NASA and its International Space Station partners have collaborated to draft standards ... more 
NASA Team outfits Orion for abort test with lean approachHouston TX (SPX) Mar 06, 2018 With the arrival of the Orion crew module to be used in the Ascent Abort-2 test at Johnson Space Center in Houston, the team is already at work with a lean, iterative development approach to minimiz ... more  
You are entering the Jovian Twilight ZonePasadena CA (JPL) Mar 06, 2018 This image captures the swirling cloud formations around the south pole of Jupiter, looking up toward the equatorial region. NASA's Juno spacecraft took the color-enhanced image during its ele ... more  
Do you know where your xenon is?Washington DC (SPX) Mar 02, 2018 The paradox of the missing xenon might sound like the title of the latest airport thriller, but it's actually a problem that's stumped geophysicists for decades. New work from an international team ... more 
Chemical sleuthing unravels possible path to forming life's building blocks in spaceBerkeley CA (SPX) Mar 06, 2018 Scientists have used lab experiments to retrace the chemical steps leading to the creation of complex hydrocarbons in space, showing pathways to forming 2-D carbon-based nanostructures in a mix of h ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 07, 2018 
The Strategic Partnerships Office (SPO) at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, has signed a partially exclusive license agreement for gear bearing technology with Bahari Energy LLC, of Rockville, Maryland, for use in its Energy Wind Tower designed for the urban environment.
"NASA's gear bearing technology will allow significant improvement in our Wind Energy Towers e ... more |
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 Houston TX (SPX) Mar 07, 2018 
With the arrival of the Orion crew module to be used in the Ascent Abort-2 test at Johnson Space Center in Houston, the team is already at work with a lean, iterative development approach to minimize cost and ensure the flight test stays on schedule.
The approach involves considering how to do things differently, finding ways to execute elements of the buildup more efficiently and pushing ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 07, 2018 
This image was originally meant to track the movement of sand dunes near the North Pole of Mars, but what's on the ground in between the dunes is just as interesting!
The ground has parallel dark and light stripes from upper left to lower right in this area. In the dark stripes, we see piles of boulders at regular intervals.
What organized these boulders into neatly-spaced piles? In ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Mar 06, 2018 
China Aerospace Science and Industry Corp, the nation's largest missile maker, will launch a satellite this year to demonstrate technologies for a vast space-based communications network capable of covering every corner on the Earth, including the Arctic and Antarctica.
Zhang Zhongyang, president of the CASIC Second Academy, said engineers are assembling the satellite and plan to place it ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Mar 03, 2018 
Two of ESA BIC Sweden's incubators have been ranked fourth and seventh in the world classification of university affiliated business incubators among 259 evaluated in 53 countries.
"Being top rated in the world shows that we here in the North are at the forefront and it's feels great," said Jens Lundstrom, CEO for Arctic Business Incubator (ABI) and Manager of ESA Business Incubator Centre ... more |
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 Laurel MD (SPX) Mar 07, 2018 
Late on March 4, 2018, personnel at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab in Laurel, Maryland, reported detecting IMAGE's signal for the first time after losing contact on Feb. 24. However the signal was too weak to lock on to.
NASA continues to implement an interface with the 18-meter antenna at White Sands, New Mexico, in cooperation with the Near Earth Network, to be ready to command an ... more |
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 Berkeley CA (SPX) Mar 06, 2018 
Scientists have used lab experiments to retrace the chemical steps leading to the creation of complex hydrocarbons in space, showing pathways to forming 2-D carbon-based nanostructures in a mix of heated gases.
The latest study, which featured experiments at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), could help explain the presence of pyrene, which is ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 06, 2018 
This image captures the swirling cloud formations around the south pole of Jupiter, looking up toward the equatorial region.
NASA's Juno spacecraft took the color-enhanced image during its eleventh close flyby of the gas giant planet on Feb. 7 at 7:11 a.m. PST (10:11 a.m. EST). At the time, the spacecraft was 74,896 miles (120,533 kilometers) from the tops of Jupiter's clouds at 84.9 degre ... more |
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 Tallahassee FL (SPX) Mar 07, 2018 
Earth's vast oceans brim with potential for commercial activities ranging from tourism to shipping to alternative energy, but planning for the sustainable coexistence of different and competing industries has proved a complicated task.
Now, researchers led by Florida State University Assistant Professor of Geography Sarah Lester have introduced an advanced, holistic analytical model that c ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Feb 12, 2018 
The Pentagon and Israel's Defense Ministry have launched 'Urban Navigation Challenge', a startup competition to create advanced 'counter-terror' navigation systems which don't use GPS. The project makes no mention of officially designated US "rivals" like Russia or China, but according to Russian experts, it would make no difference even if it did.
The project, officially dubbed the Combat ... more |
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 Davis CA (SPX) Mar 06, 2018 
A new explanation for the Moon's origin has it forming inside the Earth when our planet was a seething, spinning cloud of vaporized rock, called a synestia. The new model led by researchers at the University of California, Davis and Harvard University resolves several problems in lunar formation and is published Feb. 28 in the Journal of Geophysical Research - Planets.
"The new work explai ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Mar 07, 2018 
Russia's state emergency center has shared some of the most worrisome scenarios that presumably await planet Earth in the decades to come, and, most importantly, outlined how dangerous the contact with celestial bodies might turn out.
Large asteroids of up to one kilometer in diameter are feared to come into dangerous proximity to Earth in the coming years, "Antistikhiya" center of Russian ... more |
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 Cape Canaveral AFS FL (SPX) Mar 03, 2018 
A newly launched satellite will augment the GOES-16 weather satellite and provide broad coverage with powerful new weather monitoring technology for meteorologists to provide life and property-saving forecasts. On Thursday, at 5:02 p.m. ET, NOAA's GOES-S weather satellite was launched aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V 541 rocket and has successfully established communications.
NOAA's ... more |
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 Belfast UK (SPX) Mar 06, 2018 
Scientists at Queen's University Belfast have led an international team to the ground-breaking discovery that magnetic waves crashing through the Sun may be key to heating its atmosphere and propelling the solar wind.
The Sun is the source of energy that sustains all life on Earth but much remains unknown about it. However, a group of researchers at Queen's have now unlocked some mysteries ... more |
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Mar 04, 2018 
A research team of multiple institutes, including the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan and University of Tokyo, released an unprecedentedly wide and sharp dark matter map based on the newly obtained imaging data by Hyper Suprime-Cam on the Subaru Telescope. The dark matter distribution is estimated by the weak gravitational lensing technique.
The team located the positions and le ... more |
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 Vienna, Austria (SPX) Mar 06, 2018 
What is inside an atom, between the nucleus and the electron? Usually there is nothing, but why could there not be other particles too? If the electron orbits the nucleus at a great distance, there is plenty of space in between for other atoms. A "giant atom" can be created, filled with ordinary atoms. All these atoms form a weak bond, creating a new, exotic state of matter at cold temperatures, ... more |
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