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Waiter, There's Metal In My Moon WaterGreenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 18, 2011 Bring a filter if you plan on drinking water from the moon. Water ice recently discovered in dust at the bottom of a crater near the moon's south pole is accompanied by metallic elements like mercury, magnesium, calcium, and even a bit of silver. Now you can add sodium to the mix, according to Dr. Rosemary Killen of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. Recent discoveries of significant deposits of water on the moon were surprising because our moon has had a tough life. Intense aste ... read more |
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  Hubble Shows New Image of Spiral Galaxy NGC 2841 The galaxy NGC 2841 - shown here in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image, taken with the space observatory's newest instrument, the Wide Field Camera 3 - currently has a relatively low star fo ... more | .. |
  High NOON For Microwave Photons An important milestone toward the realization of a large-scale quantum computer, and further demonstration of a new level of the quantum control of light, were accomplished by a team of scientists a ... more | .. |
  Direct Images Of Disks Unravel Mystery Of Planet Formation The fruits of the Strategic Explorations of Exoplanets and Disks with Subaru (SEEDS) project, led by Motohide Tamura of NAOJ (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan), continue with another remar ... more | .. |
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  Earth dodges geomagnetic storm: scientist A wave of charged plasma particles from a huge solar eruption has glanced off the Earth's northern pole, lighting up auroras and disrupting some radio communications, a NASA scientist said. ... more | .. |
 Japan eyes humanoid robot mission in space Japan's space agency is planning a mission to send a humanoid robot to space so that it can communicate with people on Earth through Twitter, an agency official said Thursday. ... more | .. |
 Reflected Glory The nebula Messier 78 takes centre stage in this image taken with the Wide Field Imager on the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at the La Silla Observatory in Chile, while the stars powering the bright d ... more | .. |
  Spectacular Flyby Of Comet Tempel 1 Tests Lockheed Built Spacecraft NASA's Stardust-NExT spacecraft made a Valentine's Day deep-space rendezvous with an object it had been seeking for the past four-and-a-half years. The Lockheed Martin-built spacecraft flawlessly ex ... more |
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Dogs of war: China touts killer robot 'wolves'
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 Herschel Quantifies The Dark Matter Threshold For Starburst Galaxies Modern astronomers have established that there is much more to galaxies than meets the eye, as the stars, gas and dust - perceivable by telescopes across the entire electromagnetic spectrum - make u ... more | .. |
Huge solar flare jams radio, satellite signals: NASA A powerful solar eruption that has already disturbed radio communications in China could disrupt electrical power grids and satellites used on Earth in the next days, NASA said. ... more | .. |
 NASA Releases Images Of Man-Made Crater On Comet NASA's Stardust spacecraft returned new images of a comet showing a scar resulting from the 2005 Deep Impact mission. The images also showed the comet has a fragile and weak nucleus. The space ... more | .. |
 Isolating The Stellar Discs Of Andromeda A team of astronomers from the UK, the US and Europe have identified a thick stellar disc in the nearby Andromeda galaxy for the first time. The discovery and properties of the thick disc will const ... more |
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 New Instrument Will Help Confirm Kepler Planet Finds The search for planets outside our solar system continues to heat up. NASA's Kepler spacecraft has located more than 1,200 planetary candidates, however confirming them remains a challenge. In some ... more | .. |
 SDO Celebrates One Year Anniversary On February 11, 2010, at 10:23 in the morning, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) launched into space on an Atlas rocket from Cape Canaveral. A year later, SDO has sent back millions of stunnin ... more | .. |
 Stardust Set To Meet Its NExT Comet Stardust NExT must love comets. On Valentine's Day the spacecraft will get up close and personal with its second. It's been seven years since the original Stardust danced with Wild 2 out beyond the ... more | .. |
 New View Of Family Life In The North American Nebula Stars at all stages of development, from dusty little tots to young adults, are on display in a new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. This cosmic community is called the North America ... more |
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SMOS mission reveals 15-year global forest carbon storage trends
Pacific microstate sells first passports to fund climate action
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 NASA spacecraft unravels comet mystery A NASA spacecraft's flyby with a comet showed erosion on the Tempel 1's surface since it skimmed by the Sun in 2005, and revealed Tuesday the first clear pictures of the crater made by a Deep Impact probe. ... more | .. |
 NASA'S Stardust Spacecraft Completes Comet Flyby Mission controllers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., watched as data downlinked from the Stardust spacecraft indicated it completed its closest approach with comet Tempel 1. An ... more | .. |
 The Two Faces Of Tempel 1 Just one year before its Feb. 14 encounter with comet Tempel 1, NASA's Stardust spacecraft performed the largest rocket burn of its extended life. With the spacecraft on the opposite side of the sol ... more | .. |
 Two-Timing Spacecraft Has Date With Another Comet NASA's Stardust spacecraft, equipped with the University of Chicago's Dust Flux Monitor Instrument (DFMI), is hurtling at more than 24,000 miles an hour toward a Valentine's Day encounter with comet ... more |
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 First Ever STEREO Images Of The Entire Sun It's official: The sun is a sphere. On Feb. 6th, NASA's twin STEREO probes moved into position on opposite sides of the sun, and they are now beaming back uninterrupted images of the entire star-fro ... more | .. |
 Building A Global Thermostat In L1 The sun is the predominant source of energy for the Earth. While there are long- and short-term variations in solar intensity that effect periodic global climate changes, there is also a secular tem ... more | .. |
  How Much Information Is There In The World? A study appearing on Feb. 10 in Science Express, an electronic journal that provides select Science articles ahead of print, calculates the world's total technological capacity - how much informatio ... more | .. |
  Researchers Discover A New Class Of Magic Atomic Clusters Called Superhalogens An international team of researchers has discovered a new class of magnetic superhalogens - a class of atomic clusters able to exhibit unusual stability at a specific size and composition, which may ... more |
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Major climate-GDP study under review after facing challenge
Putin decree allows Russia to increase greenhouse gas emissions
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 Stardust Heading Into The Bonus Round A bonus round is something one usually associates with the likes of a TV game show, not a pioneering deep space mission. "We are definitely in the bonus round," said Stardust-NExT Project Manager Ti ... more | .. |
 Floppy discs out, Blu-rays in -- Greece revises stats Greece has thrown out nearly a dozen items such as floppy discs, photo film and matches from a list of "nearly extinct" goods used until now to calculate inflation, the state statistics agency said. ... more | .. |
 Giant Ring Of Black Holes Just in time for Valentine's Day comes a new image of a ring - not of jewels, but of black holes. This composite image of Arp 147, a pair of interacting galaxies located about 430 million light-year ... more | .. |
Amount of data stored worldwide estimated U.S. researchers say they've estimated the amount of data stored worldwide by 2007 at 295 exabytes - equivalent to 1.2 billion average computer hard drives. ... more |
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 New Images Show Cloud Exploding From Sun Ripples Like Clouds On Earth Physicists, led by a researcher at the University of Warwick, studying new images of clouds of material exploding from the Sun have spotted instabilities forming in that exploding cloud that are sim ... more | .. |
Stardust Celebrates Twelve Years With Rocket Burn NASA's Stardust spacecraft marked its 12th anniversary in space on Monday, Feb. 7, with a rocket burn to further refine its path toward a Feb. 14 date with a comet. The half-minute trajectory ... more | .. |
 Car-size asteroid nears Earth Wednesday A car-size asteroid will pass near Earth Wednesday, U.S. scientists said, while one bigger than two football fields might hit Earth in 18 years. ... more | .. |
 NASA Spacecraft Closes In On Comet Tempel 1 NASA is about to discover how solar heat devours a comet. "For the first time, we'll see the same comet before and after its closest approach to the sun," explains Joe Veverka, principal investigato ... more |
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