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 Sydney, Australia (SPX) Sep 14, 2009 
Rocks from space fall to Earth all the time. Meteorite fragments are so common that they turn up in jewelry. Some of these fragments have been found to come from the Moon and Mars, giving us a very cheap form of sample retrieval. They're blown off the surface of these worlds when a large object impacts the surface, creating a massive explosion. Drifting through space for eons, they ... read more 
Huntsville AL (SPX) Sep 14, 2009NASA's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) is racing toward a double-impact on the moon at 7:30 am EDT on Oct. 9th. NASA has announced exactly where the crash will take place. The target crater is Cabeus A. It was selected after an extensive review of the best places to excavate frozen water at the lunar south pole. "The selection of Cabeus A was a result of a ... more
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Guwahati, India (PTI) Sep 14, 2009NASA astronaut Edward Michael Fincke has said the Indian moon mission 'Chandrayan' was not a failure, but an "amazing success". "There is a lot of speculation about the mission being failed. On the contrary, it was a success with 95 per cent of its objectives achieved," Fincke, a veteran of two missions in the International Space Station ISS), told reporters here. "This not the ... more  
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 11, 2009UCLA atmospheric scientists have discovered a previously unknown basic mode of energy transfer from the solar wind to the Earth's magnetosphere. The research, federally funded by the National Science Foundation, could improve the safety and reliability of spacecraft that operate in the upper atmosphere. "It's like something else is heating the atmosphere besides the sun. This discovery is ... more  
Huntsville AL (SPX) Sep 10, 2009Astronomers have declared NASA's Hubble Space Telescope a fully rejuvenated observatory with the release of observations from four of its six operating science instruments. Sen. Barbara Mikulski of Maryland unveiled the images at NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC. "This marks a new beginning for Hubble," said Ed Weiler, associate administrator for NASA's Science Mission Directorate. ... more |
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Washington DC (SPX) Sep 09, 2009Four months after the success of Apollo 11, NASA launched Apollo 12 in November 1969. Almost exactly 40 years later, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has seen the landing site. Engineering and safety constraints in place for these earliest manned lunar missions dictated landing Apollo 12 at an equatorial site on a flat lava plain (known as maria on the moon). NASA selected a site near ... more  
Athens, Ga. (UPI) Sep 8, 2009 U.S. scientists say they have determined a component of deep space clouds is also found on Earth -- in mothballs. University of Georgia researchers said they have shown for the first time that one component of clouds emitting unusual infrared, known as the Unidentified Infrared Bands, is a gaseous version of naphthalene, the chief component of mothballs. The unidentified infrared band ... more 
Paris, France (ESA) Sep 09, 2009XMM-Newton observations of the X-ray pulsator RX J0648.0-4418, timed to also cover the phase when the source was expected to be eclipsed by its companion, have resulted in a solid, model-independent mass estimation of this object. It appears to be a rare, ultra-massive white dwarf, whose continued study promises to provide sensitive tests for stellar evolution theories. Sandro Mereghetti and ... more |
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