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June 01, 2011
MOON DAILY
Looking at the volatile side of the Moon
Paris, France (ESA) Jun 01, 2011
Four decades after the first Moon landing, our only natural satellite remains a fascinating enigma. Specialists from Europe and the US have been looking at ESA's proposed Lunar Lander mission to find out how to seek water and other volatile resources. Europe is developing the technology for the Lunar Lander mission, a precursor voyage to the Moon in preparation for human exploration beyond low Earth orbit. "Our ambition is to see one day a European astronaut working on the Moon," says ESA's Bruno ... read more

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SKY NIGHTLY

A Night with the Stars...in a Conference Room
Ancient astronomers looked up at the dark skies in wonder, as the stars marched by overhead like precision dancers. In the early 17th century, Galileo Galilei brought the world one step closer to th ... more
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ECLIPSES

A Rare Eclipse of the Midnight Sun
It sounds like an oxymoron: a solar eclipse at midnight. According to NASA, it's about to happen. "It might sound like a contradiction to have a solar eclipse in the middle of the night, but this is ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Probing the Origins of Extreme Neutron Stars
Neutron stars are the unimaginably dense corpses of what were once much more massive stars that died while being ripped apart in a supernova explosion. Their average density is typically more than o ... more
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SOLAR SCIENCE

Mapping mayhem where Sun's magnetic influence wanes
When Voyager 1 passed into the heliosheath in 2004, it became the first man-made object to explore the remote edge of the Sun's magnetic influence. The heliosheath, from 1.5 to 15 billion kilo ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

'Dead' galaxies aren't so dead after all
University of Michigan astronomers examined old galaxies and were surprised to discover that they are still making new stars. The results provide insights into how galaxies evolve with time. U-M re ... more
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MERCURY RISING

The Shape of Mercury
The MESSENGER spacecraft, recently injected into orbit about the Solar Systems' inner-most planet is already yielding important new information about Mercury. This spacecraft carries a laser altimet ... more
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EXO LIFE

New synchrotron technique could see hidden building blocks of life
Scientists from Finland and France have developed a new synchrotron X-ray technique that may revolutionize the chemical analysis of rare materials like meteoric rock samples or fossils. The results ... more
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TECH SPACE

Stars help to track space junk
A team of researchers from the Royal Institute and Observatory of the Navy (ROA) in Cadiz (Spain) has developed a method to track the movement of geostationary objects using the position of the star ... more
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JOVIAN DREAMS

Juno Solar Panels Complete Testing
The three massive solar panels that will provide power for NASA's Juno spacecraft during its mission to Jupiter have seen their last photons of light until they are deployed in space after launch. ... more
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IRON AND ICE

CU-Boulder to participate in NASA mission to land on an asteroid
A University of Colorado Boulder team will be part of a mission selected yesterday by NASA to launch a spacecraft to an asteroid and pluck samples from its surface to better understand the formation ... more
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IRON AND ICE

ASU to build mineral survey instrument
A newly announced NASA mission to collect a sample of an asteroid and return it to Earth will include an instrument built at Arizona State University's School of Earth and Space Exploration (SESE). ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

NASA Scientists on the Trail of Mystery Molecules
Space scientists working to solve one cosmic mystery at NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., now have the capability to better understand unidentified matter in deep space. Using a ne ... more
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PHYSICS NEWS

Scientist instils new hope of detecting gravitational waves
Direct evidence of the existence of gravitational waves is something that has long eluded researchers, however new research has suggested that adding just one of the proposed detectors in Japan, Aus ... more
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EXO WORLDS

Second Rocky World Makes Kepler-10 a Multi-Planet System
The Kepler Telescope team has found a new rocky planet, one they describe as a "scorched, molten Earth." The planet is about 2 times the size of Earth, and is very close to the Sun-like star K ... more
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MOON DAILY

Parts of moon interior as wet as Earth's upper mantle
Parts of the moon's interior contains as much water as the upper mantle of the Earth - 100 times more of the precious liquid than measured before - research from Case Western Reserve University, Car ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Explosion Helps Researcher Spot Universe's Most Distant Object
An international team of UK and US astronomers have spotted the most distant explosion, and possibly the most distant object, ever seen in the Universe. University of Warwick astronomer Dr. Andrew L ... more
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IRON AND ICE

NASA Selects OSIRIS-REx as Next New Frontiers Mission
NASA has selected the University of Arizona to lead a sample-return mission to an asteroid. The OSIRIS-REx team is led by Dr. Michael Drake, Director of the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planeta ... more
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MOON DAILY

Moon may have more water than believed: study
The moon may have a lot more water than imagined, perhaps as much as on Earth in some parts, a study said Thursday, in a discovery that has cast doubt on long-held theories about how it was formed. ... more
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MOON DAILY

NASA-Funded Scientists Make Watershed Lunar Discovery
A team of NASA-funded researchers has measured for the first time water from the moon in the form of tiny globules of molten rock, which have turned to glass-like material trapped within crystals. D ... more
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TIME AND SPACE

Electron is surprisingly round, say Imperial scientists following 10 year study
Scientists at Imperial College London have made the most accurate measurement yet of the shape of the humble electron, finding that it is almost a perfect sphere, in a study published in the journal ... more
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IRON AND ICE

NASA aims to grab asteroid time capsule
NASA on Wednesday said it plans to launch the first unmanned US spacecraft to a deep space asteroid in 2016 to collect samples and return them to Earth for further study. ... more
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IRON AND ICE

NASA to Launch New Science Mission to Asteroid in 2016
NASA will launch a spacecraft to an asteroid in 2016 and use a robotic arm to pluck samples that could better explain our solar system's formation and how life began. The mission, called Origins-Spe ... more
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MOON DAILY

President Kennedy's Speech and America's Next Moonshot Moment
NASA is once again charting a new course to extend humanity's presence into the solar system, developing a new heavy lift rocket and crew capsule to take astronauts beyond low-Earth orbit. Thi ... more
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MERCURY RISING

Altimetry Is Defining Mercury's Shape
MESSENGER's Mercury Laser Altimeter (MLA) in its first 2 months of operation has already built up a grid of ground tracks that span most of Mercury's surface north of the equator. These data will pr ... more
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TIME AND SPACE

Listening with One Atom
Weizmann Institute scientists set a new record for measuring magnetic vibrations using the spin of a single atom: 100 times more accurate than the previous record The lab, though it may seem q ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Nearby Supernova Factory Ramps Up
A local supernova factory has recently started production, according to a wealth of new data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory on the Carina Nebula. This discovery may help astronomers better un ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Monash student finds Universe's missing mass
A Monash student has made a breakthrough in the field of astrophysics, discovering what has until now been described as the Universe's 'missing mass'. Amelia Fraser-McKelvie, working within a team a ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

How to Learn a Star's True Age
For many movie stars, their age is a well-kept secret. In space, the same is true of the actual stars. Like our Sun, most stars look almost the same for most of their lives. So how can we tell if a ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Feuding helium dwarfs exposed by eclipse
Researchers at the University of Warwick have found a unique feuding double white dwarf star system where each star appears to have been stripped down to just its helium. We know of just over ... more
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IRON AND ICE

NASA to sample an asteroid with new space mission
The US space agency on Wednesday announced plans to send the first unmanned spacecraft to an asteroid to collect samples and return them to Earth for further study. ... more
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DEEP IMPACT

NASA Sky Cameras Capture Man-Sized Meteor Over Macon, Ga.
Astronomers at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center have recorded the brightest meteor seen by their network in almost three years of operation. On May 20, 2011, at 9:47 p.m. CDT, a six-foot diameter ... more
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