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AMES Wins Secondary Lunar Mission - Will Look For Lunar Ice
Washington DC (SPX) Apr 10, 2006
NASA today announced that a small, 'secondary payload' spacecraft, to be developed by a team at NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., has been selected to travel to the moon to look for precious water ice at the lunar south pole in October 2008. The smaller secondary payload spacecraft will travel with the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter to the moon on the same rocket. The NASA Ames team proposed the secondary payload mission, which will be carried out by the Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite.

   
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    Decade-Long Isolation Of Venus To End At Last
    Paris (AFP) Apr 10, 2006
    For more than 11 years, Earth's closest neighbour has been unexplored, left alone to silently circle the Sun, remaining a planet as cryptic as it is hostile. With luck, this will change on Tuesday when a European probe arrives at Venus after a 400-million-kilometre (250-million-mile) trip.

    HIRISE Returns First Color Image Of Martian Surface
    Pasadena CA (SPX) Apr 10, 2006
    NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has returned its first color image of the planet's surface via its onboard High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment.

    Spirit Seeks Alternate Wintering Location
    Pasadena CA (SPX) Apr 10, 2006
    On the way to the north-facing slopes on the peak called McCool in the Columbia Hills - and between outcrops called Oberth and Korolev, Spirit has encountered an impassable, sandy area.

    Russia To Spend More On Space Over Next Decade
    Moscow (RIA) Apr 10, 2006
    Government spending on space programs will increase in the next ten years, the country's top space official said Friday. Space agency head Anatoly Perminov said the government would allocate $180 million more to the space program this year than last, and would boost funding further in the next decade.

    Space Station Crew Returns To Earth
    Baikonur, Kazakhstan (SPX) Apr 10, 2006
    The 12th crew of the International Space Station landed safely in the steppes of Kazakhstan within the Baikonur Cosmodrome early Sunday morning as their Soyuz spacecraft parachuted to earth.

    QinetiQ Wins Don Quijote Mission Study Contract
    Hampshire, England (SPX) Apr 10, 2006
    A consortium led by British aerospace company QinetiQ has won a 450,000 Euro contract from ESA to design a satellite mission that could be used to deflect an asteroid threatening Earth.

    The Soggy Sands of Mars
    Davis CA (SPX) Apr 10, 2006
    Cracks and fins in the sand in an American desert look very similar to features seen on Mars and may indicate the recent presence of water at the surface, according to a new study by researcher Greg Chavdarian and Dawn Sumner, associate professor of geology at UC Davis.
  • Opportunity Heading South To Victoria

    Group Seeks Winning Mars Sample Return Design
    Alexandria VA (SPX) Apr 10, 2006
    MarsDrive has launched a Mars Sample Return and In-situ Propellant Production Design Competition, a year-long contest to stimulate innovative alternatives to current Mars support mission concepts.

    Blue Ring Found Around Planet Uranus
    Berkeley CA (SPX) Apr 10, 2006
    Astronomers have discovered that Mab, one of the moons orbiting the planet Uranus, is embedded within a blue ring - an almost exact parallel to Saturn's blue ring that tracks the orbit of its water-ice spewing moon Enceladus.

  • Exploding Star Within A Star Surprises Astronomers
    Washington DC (SPX) Apr 10, 2006
    Last Feb. 12, amateur astronomers around the world began reporting something that teams of their professional counterparts had been eagerly awaiting: A faint star in the constellation Ophiuchus suddenly became clearly visible to the naked eye in the night sky.

    ESO Captures Cosmic Spider At Work
    Paranal, Chile (SPX) Apr 10, 2006
    Hanging above the nearly Large Magellanic Cloud - a miniature galaxy and one of the Milky Way's closest neighbors - is the Tarantula nebula.

    Device Only Atoms Across May Allow Infinitesimal But Powerful Computers
    Tampa FL (SPX) Apr 10, 2006
    Using the power of modern computing combined with innovative theoretical tools, an international team of researchers has determined how a one-way electrical valve, or diode, made of only a single molecule does its job.


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  • HIRISE Returns First Color Image Of Martian Surface
  • Spirit Seeks Alternate Wintering Location
  • The Soggy Sands of Mars
  • Opportunity Heading South To Victoria

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