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![]() Huntsville AL (SPX) Oct 27, 2010 Every hundred years or so, a solar storm comes along so potent it fills the skies of Earth with blood-red auroras, makes compass needles point in the wrong direction, and sends electric currents coursing through the planet's topsoil. The most famous such storm, the Carrington Event of 1859, actually shocked telegraph operators and set some of their offices on fire. A 2008 report by the National Academy of Sciences warns that if such a storm occurred today, we could experience widespread power blac ... read more |
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![]() New Cometary Phenomenon Greets Approaching Spacecraft Recent observations of comet Hartley 2 have scientists scratching their heads, while they anticipate a flyby of the small, icy world on Nov. 4. A phenomenon was recorded by imagers aboard NASA ... more | .. |
![]() LRO Supports Historic Lunar Impact Mission The lunar rocks brought back to the Earth by the Apollo astronauts were found to have very little water, and to be much drier than rocks on Earth. An explanation for this was that the Moon formed bi ... more | .. |
![]() LRO Detects Surprising Gases In LCROSS Lunar Impact Plume NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) and its sophisticated suite of instruments have determined that hydrogen, mercury and other volatile substances are present in permanently shaded soils on t ... more | .. |
![]() Picometre Precision Demonstrated By LISA Pathfinder Tests A European team working on the LISA Pathfinder mission has completed an extensive series of ground tests on the spacecraft's optical payload. The tests successfully achieved - for the first time on ... more | .. |
![]() New Research Settles Years Debate Over Diffuse Aurora New space research published this week (Thursday 21 October) in the journal Nature, has settled decades of scientific debate. Researchers from the University of California (UCLA) and British Antarct ... more |
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NASA Open Government Summit Emphasized Data Exchange![]() NASA is working to publish more of its data sets online and create more opportunities to engage with the public using digital tools. This was a major part of the discussion during the monthly Open Government Community Summit at NASA Headquarters in Washington last week. NASA's Office of the Chief Information Officer and Office of the Chief Financial Officer hosted the meeting. The event br ... more Spring Has Sprung ... On Titan ![]() NASA's Cassini spacecraft has sent back dreamy raw images of Saturn's moon Titan that show the appearance of clouds around the moon's midsection. These bright clouds likely appeared because the moon is changing seasons and spring has arrived in Titan's northern hemisphere. The images were taken from about 2.5 million kilometers (1.5 million miles) away from Titan on Oct. 18, 2010, an ... more Moon's 'treasure chest' includes silver : study ![]() Lunar soil is richer than previously thought, with traces of silver among the complex mix of elements and compounds found within one of the moon's craters, according to a study published Thursday. Researchers at Brown University who analyzed particles of lunar dust kicked up by a NASA-engineered collision last year found a surprisingly rich mixture that, in addition to the silver, included w ... more |
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![]() Austin TX (SPX) Oct 21, 2010 The small comet Hartley 2 makes its closest approach to Earth today and should be visible to the unaided eye for several days under dark skies in the hours before dawn, according to the editors of StarDate magazine. Early risers can take a look at the comet in anticipation of its November 4 encounter with NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft. For help in finding the comet, download a sky chart from StarDate Media: http://stardate.org/mediacenter While you're there, sign up to receive notices of fut ... read more |
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