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Expedition To Study South Pacific Solar EclipseWilliamstown MA (SPX) Jul 09, 2010 Professor Jay Pasachoff of Williams College's astronomy department is on Easter Island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean preparing to observe the July 11 total solar eclipse. The eclipse will be one of the least observed ever, since so much of the path is over ocean. Easter Island, 2,500 miles west of the Chilean South American mainland, is the only substantial land in the path, until the extreme end of the eclipse reaches Patagonia at sunset. Some eclipse scientists and eco-tourists will observe ... read more |
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Paris, France (ESA) Jul 06, 2010The Rosetta orbiter, which carries the DLR lander Philae, has completed more than two thirds of its journey to the comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The most comprehensive cometary investigation ever, the mission will deliver DLR's Philae lander to the comet's surface for in situ studies. The spacecraft and lander are due to close in on 21 Lutetia, a large Main Belt Asteroid on 10 July. Since l ... more  
Paris, France (ESA) Jul 06, 2010With the launch of Gaia only two years away, the European science community is actively engaged in training the next generation of young astronomers who will exploit the flood of data from this 'Cornerstone' science mission. In many ways, Gaia is a follow-on to ESA's groundbreaking Hipparcos satellite, which mapped the sky between 1989 and 1993. Hipparcos was the first space mission design ... more  
Paris, France (ESA) Jul 06, 2010An all-sky image from Planck's recently completed first survey highlights the two major emission sources in the microwave sky: the cosmic background and the Milky Way. The relic radiation coming from the very early Universe is, to a large extent, masked by intervening astronomical sources, in particular by our own Galaxy's diffuse emission. Thanks to Planck's nine frequency channels, and t ... more |
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Man In The Moon Has 'Graphite Whiskers'Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 02, 2010 In a new analysis of a lunar sample collected by Apollo 17, researchers have detected and dated carbon on the moon in the form of graphite - the sooty stuff of pencil lead - which survived from around 3.8 billion years ago, when the moon was heavily bombarded by meteorites. Up to now, scientists thought the trace amounts of carbon previously detected on the surface of the moon came from the solar wind. Some of the graphite revealed by the new study appeared in a rare rolled form known as "gr ... read more |
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