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Station Recovers From Power Loss
Houston TX (SPX) Feb 13, 2007Mission control teams are working to assess systems affected by a power loss aboard the International Space Station early Sunday morning. The station's three crew members were not in any danger, but it did turn an off-duty day into a full work shift. About 1 a.m. EST, one of the power channels of the P4 solar array electrical system went down because of a glitch with a device known as a direct current switching unit. Students Working On New Space Suit Redesign 
Houston, TX (SPX) Feb 13, 2007Space suits for astronauts may get a new and better design following a University of Houston doctoral student's locomotion stability research. Melissa Scott-Pandorf is a Fellow of the Texas Space Grant Consortium. "NASA's mission to send humans back to the Moon is closer to a reality every day," Scott-Pandorf, a doctoral student in the UH Department of Health and Human Performance, said. NASA Solicits Ideas For Constellation Ground Work 
Washington (SPX) Feb 10, 2007NASA has issued a request for information soliciting ideas on ground processing services for its Constellation Program and the next generation of space vehicles. The request seeks input from industry to assist NASA in planning for the acquisition of ground processing, assembly, integration, test, launch and recovery services at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. |
The First Hiking Maps Of Mars
Paris, France (ESA) Feb 13, 2007Scientists using data from the HRSC experiment onboard ESA's Mars Express spacecraft have produced the first 'hiker's maps' of Mars. Giving detailed height contours and names of geological features in the Iani Chaos region, the maps could become a standard reference for future Martian research. The maps are known as topographic maps because they use contour lines to show the heights of the landscape. Opportunity Flips 10 Kilometers And Tests New Drive Software 
Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 13, 2007Opportunity has completed a remote sensing campaign at "Cape Desire" and is on the move to the next promontory, called "Cabo Corrientes." Opportunity's odometer rolled past 10 kilometers (6.2 miles) during the 50.51-meter (166 feet) drive on sol 1080. By contrast, the NASA Level 1 requirements for the mission called for achieving at least 600 meters (1,969 feet) with one rover, and the mission design requirement was for 1,000 meters (3,281 feet). Focus On Europa In Search For Life Beyond 
St. Louis MO (SPX) Feb 13, 2007Yogi Berra supposedly suggested that when you come to a fork in the road, you are supposed to take it. That's just what planetary scientists studying the rich data set from the Galileo Mission to the outer solar system are doing now. They're taking the fork. |
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Research Rocket Launches From Poker Flat Through Pulsating Aurora
Fairbanks AK (SPX) Feb 13, 2007This morning, a NASA suborbital sounding rocket launched from Poker Flat Research Range into an aurora display over northern Alaska at 3:45 a.m. Alaska Standard Time, allowing researchers to gather more data about the power source behind pulsating auroras. Marc Lessard of the physics department at the University of New Hampshire was the principle investigator for the experiment to investigate various aspects of pulsating aurora. If You Love Me Order Some Purple Space Potatoes 
Shanghai (Xinhua) Feb 13, 2007A special type of sweet purple potato, grown from seeds once aboard China's second manned spacecraft, could be a must-choose item for young couples here on Valentine's Day. The new type of sweet potato, developed from seeds that mutated in outer space, has a much deeper purple color than previous generations, according to the Haikou Purple Orchid, the grower, in China's southernmost Hainan Province. Alan Stern Appointed To Lead Science Mission Directorate 
Washington DC (SPX) Feb 13, 2007NASA Administrator Michael Griffin announced Monday that Dr. S. Alan Stern will be the agency's associate administrator for the Science Mission Directorate, effective April 2. Stern succeeds Dr. Mary L. Cleave who announced her retirement. Stern joins NASA from the Southwest Research Institute's Space Science and Engineering Division, Boulder, Colo., where he has been serving as executive director of the Space Science and Engineering Division. |
Enceladus Tells A Painful Story Of Relentless Outbursts Out Saturn Way
Charlottesville, VA (SPX) Feb 11, 2007Astronomers from the University of Virginia and other institutions have found that Enceladus, the sixth-largest moon of Saturn, is a "cosmic graffiti artist," pelting the surfaces of at least 11 other moons of Saturn with ice particles sprayed from its spewing surface geysers. This ice sandblasts the other moons, creating a reflective surface that makes them among the brightest bodies in the solar system. The First Observatory Dedicated To Stellar Magnetism 
Paris, France (SPX) Feb 13, 2007NARVAL, a stellar spectropolarimeter, has recently been installed on the 2 meter diameter Bernard Lyot Telescope (INSU-CNRS) at the summit of the Pic du Midi in the French Pyrenees. Like its twin brother, ESPaDOnS, which equips the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (INSU-CNRS, National Research Council of Canada, University of Hawaii), it is an astronomical instrument specially designed and optimized to study the magnetic fields of stars and, more specifically, their effects on the life of the stars and the planets that surround them. Astrophysicists Explain The Differences In The Brightness Of Supernova Explosions 
Munich, Germany (SPX) Feb 13, 2007Supernovae stand out in the sky like cosmic lighthouses. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics and at the National Astronomical Institute of Italy have now found a way to use these cosmic beacons to measure distances in space more accurately. |
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