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New York Center for Astrobiology In Search For Conditions Of Life In UniverseTroy NY (SPX) Jul 20, 2010 The New York Center for Astrobiology will widen the scope of its search for the building blocks of life beyond Earth with the help of a new NASA grant. Based at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the center is devoted to investigating the origins of life on Earth and the conditions that lead to formation of habitable planets in our own and other solar systems. "We are looking for the conditions of life, rather than life itself," said Douglas Whittet, director of the New York Center for Astrobiology ... read more |
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Munich, Germany (SPX) Jul 15, 2010The ESA space probe Rosetta flew past the Lutetia planetoid at around 6 p.m. CEST on Saturday. The OSIRIS camera system, built and developed under the direction of the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany, provided unique images of this rendezvous. They not only show a large number of craters on the surface of the celestial body, but also individual ... more  
New York (UPI) Jul 13, 2010 The problem of space debris and its possible dangers must be addressed by all nations of the world, an international foundation has told the United Nations. The Secure World Foundation, a non-profit organization committed to space sustainability, told the U.N. Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space that developing a legal framework and protocol to address this problem is vital, S ... more  
Washington (UPI) Jul 12, 2010 Cameras on a NASA spacecraft captured activity on the sun as powerful, glowing magnetic loops erupted from a solar hot spot, U.S. officials said. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory recorded the events in the extreme ultraviolet range of the light spectrum over several days beginning July 6, Space.com reported Monday. The arcing loops are the routes taken by solar particles followi ... more |
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Juno Armored Up To Go To JupiterPasadena CA (SPX) Jul 13, 2010 NASA's Juno spacecraft will be forging ahead into a treacherous environment at Jupiter with more radiation than any other place NASA has ever sent a spacecraft, except the sun. In a specially filtered cleanroom in Denver, where Juno is being assembled, engineers recently added a unique protective shield around its sensitive electronics. "Juno is basically an armored tank going to Jupiter," said Scott Bolton, Juno's principal investigator, based at Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio. ... read more |
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