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 Laurel MD (SPX) Sep 15, 2009 
On September 29, the MESSENGER spacecraft will pass by Mercury for the third time, flying 141.7 miles above the planet's rocky surface for a final gravity assist that will enable it to enter orbit about Mercury in 2011. This encounter will also provide new observational opportunities for MESSENGER's Magnetometer, designed to determine the structure and origin of Mercury's intrinsic magnetic ... read more 
Washington DC (SPX) Sep 16, 2009NASA has concluded two weeks of technology development tests on two of the agency's prototype lunar rovers. The Desert RATS - or Research and Technology Studies - in the Arizona desert at Black Point Lava Flow allow NASA to analyze and refine technologies and procedures in extreme environments on Earth. "These tests provide us with crucial information about how our cutting edge vehicles ... more
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Washington DC (SPX) Sep 15, 2009This is big. But you know that much already. Three hundred and eighty million miles from Earth, the solar system's largest planet spins like a sizzling top in the night, massive and powerful beyond all comparison short of the sun itself. It's therefore only fitting-and certainly about time-that the fifth planet receive its proper cinematic due, set naturally on the most appropriate cinematic ... more  
Pasadena CA (SPX) Sep 16, 2009There are so many stars in our galaxy that even if planets with complex life (animals and plants) are rare - say one for every billion stars - there could still be dozens here in the Milky Way. But we are just beginning to learn about worlds beyond our solar system, called exoplanets, so we really don't have a good idea of what the chances are for advanced life. That's where NASA's Kepler ... more  
Huntsville AL (SPX) Sep 16, 2009Ninjas knew how to be stealthy: Be dark. Emit very little light. Move in the shadows between bright places. In modern warfare, though, ninjas would be sitting ducks. Their black clothes may be hard to see at night with the naked eye, but their warm bodies would be clearly visible to a soldier wearing infrared goggles. To hunt for the "ninjas" of the cosmos - dim objects that lurk in the ... more |
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Sydney, Australia (SPX) Sep 14, 2009Rocks 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 ... more 
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 |
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