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 Paris, France (ESA) Oct 01, 2009 
Following the launch and in-orbit testing of the most sophisticated gravity mission ever built, ESA's GOCE satellite is now in 'measurement mode', mapping tiny variations in Earth's gravity in unprecedented detail. The 'Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer' (GOCE) satellite was launched on 17 March from northern Russia. The data now being received will lead to a better ... read more 
by Staff WritersLaurel MD (SPX) Oct 01, 2009 MESSENGER successfully flew by Mercury yesterday, gaining a critical gravity assist that will enable it to enter orbit about Mercury in 2011 and capturing images of five percent of the planet never before seen. With more than 90 percent of the planet's surface already imaged, MESSENGER's science team had drafted an ambitious observation campaign designed to ... more
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Vietnam says parched Red River at record low
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Huntsville AL (SPX) Oct 01, 2009Planning a trip to Mars? Take plenty of shielding. According to sensors on NASA's ACE (Advanced Composition Explorer) spacecraft, galactic cosmic rays have just hit a Space Age high. "In 2009, cosmic ray intensities have increased 19% beyond anything we've seen in the past 50 years," says Richard Mewaldt of Caltech. "The increase is significant, and it could mean we need to re-think how ... more  
St Louis MO (SPX) Oct 01, 2009So accustomed are we to the sunshine, rain, fog and snow of our home planet that we find it next to impossible to imagine a different atmosphere and other forms of precipitation. To be sure, Dr. Seuss came up with a green gluey substance called oobleck that fell from the skies and gummed up the Kingdom of Didd, but it had to be conjured up by wizards and was clearly a thing of magic. ... more 
Paris, France (ESA) Oct 01, 2009Newly released images, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope before the recent Servicing Mission, highlight the ongoing drama in two galaxies in the Virgo Cluster affected by a process known as 'ram pressure stripping', which can result in peculiar-looking galaxies. An extremely hot X-ray-emitting gas known as the intra-cluster medium lurks between galaxies within clusters. As galaxies move ... more |
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Paris, France (SPX) Sep 29, 2009The third image of ESO's GigaGalaxy Zoom project has just been released online, completing this eye-opening dive into our galactic home in outstanding fashion. The latest image follows on from views, released over the last two weeks, of the sky as seen with the unaided eye and through an amateur telescope. This third instalment provides another breathtaking vista of an astronomical object ... more  
Beijing (AFP) Sept 29, 2009China has completed a high-resolution, three-dimensional map of the entire surface of the moon, in an important step towards a future lunar landing, an expert involved in the project said Tuesday. After putting its first man into space in 2003 - only the third nation to do so - China is aiming to launch an unmanned rover on the moon's surface by 2012 and a manned mission to the moon by aro ... more 
Mumbai, India (SPX) Sep 28, 2009India's moon mission has proved to be quite economical and cost much less compared to what other countries have spent on their projects, mission director M Annadurai said here. Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) would continue to check costs in the Chandrayaan-II mission as well, he said. India's moon mission cost only about one sixth to one tenth of the cost of similar missions ... more |
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