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Second bid to launch NASA's Moon-bound spacecraftWashington (AFP) Sept 8, 2011 NASA will try again Saturday to launch a $500 million pair of unmanned spacecraft that will use gravity tools to map the Moon's inner core for the first time, after high winds delayed a first attempt. The GRAIL (Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory) mission, aims to launch on a single Delta II rocket as early as 8:29 am (1229 GMT). A second launch window opens at 9:08 am (1308 GMT). NASA had planned to try again on Friday, but decided to delay the launch another day to allow additional time to review propulsion system data from Thursday's detanking operation after the launch attempt was scrubbed due to upper level winds. ... read more |
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  Invisible World Discovered Usually, running five minutes late is a bad thing since you might lose your dinner reservation or miss out on tickets to the latest show. But when a planet runs five minutes late, astronomers get ex ... more | .. |
  Young Stars Take a Turn in the Spotlight ESO's New Technology Telescope (NTT) has captured a striking image of the open cluster NGC 2100. This brilliant star cluster is around 15 million years old and located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, ... more | .. |
 GRAIL Launch Rescheduled for Friday Upper level winds in the unacceptable range Thursday morning delayed the GRAIL launch by 24 hours. The forecast for Friday shows a 40 percent chance of favorable weather conditions at launch time. ... more | .. |
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  NASA spacecraft carrying CU-Boulder instruments observes new characteristics of solar flares NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, which is carrying a suite of instruments including a $32 million University of Colorado Boulder package, has provided scientists with new information that energy f ... more | .. |
 NASA to launch Moon-bound twin spacecraft NASA is to launch Thursday a $500 million pair of unmanned spacecraft that will chase each other around the Moon as they use gravity tools to map its inner core for the first time. Scientists ... more | .. |
  MESSENGER Navigates Second Hot Season, Executes Third Orbit-Correction Maneuver Today the MESSENGER spacecraft emerged unscathed from the second of four "hot seasons" expected to occur during its one-year primary mission in orbit around Mercury. Hours later, mission controllers ... more | .. |
 SDO Spots a Late Phase in Solar Flares The sun's surface dances. Giant loops of magnetized solar material burst up, twist, and fall back down. Some erupt, shooting radiation flares and particles out into space. Forced to observe this dan ... more |
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Israel military intercepts Huthi missile fired from Yemen; Gaza civil defence says Israel strikes kill 30
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GRAIL and the Mystery of the Missing Moon As early as Sept. 8th, NASA's GRAIL mission will blast off to uncover some of the mysteries beneath the surface of the Moon. That cratered gray exterior hides some ... more | .. |
  Earth's gold a gift of meteor showers Precious metals in Earth's mantle are the result of a bombardment of meteorites more than 200 million years after the planet was formed, U.K. researchers say. ... more | .. |
 Weather threatens moon mission launch NASA says clouds and thunderstorms in Florida could disrupt the launch of twin satellites on a mission to study the moon's gravitation field. ... more | .. |
 Our Galaxy Might Hold Thousands of Ticking "Time Bombs" In the Hollywood blockbuster "Speed," a bomb on a bus is rigged to blow up if the bus slows down below 50 miles per hour. The premise - slow down and you explode - makes for a great action movie plo ... more |
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 NASA Spacecraft Images Offer Sharper Views of Apollo Landing Sites NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) captured the sharpest images ever taken from space of the Apollo 12, 14 and 17 landing sites. Images show the twists and turns of the paths made when the as ... more | .. |
 Neutrinos: Ghostly particles with unstable egos They were always mysterious. 26 years had to pass before the prediction of theoretical physics was confirmed and the existence of neutrinos was finally proven experimentally in 1956. The reason for ... more | .. |
  Neutron analysis reveals unique atom-scale behavior of cobalt blue Neutron scattering studies of "cobalt blue," a compound prized by artists for its lustrous blue hue, are revealing unique magnetic characteristics that could answer questions about mysterious proper ... more | .. |
  Half of world's PCs use pirated software: report Almost half of personal computer users around the world get their software illegally, with China's massive market the worst culprit, a report claimed Wednesday. ... more |
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Cosmic dust particles reveal snapshot of Earth's ancient air
Spire to Provide ESA with Satellite Weather Data for European Research
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Moon Mission Ready to Fly At the prelaunch news conference Tuesday, the twin moon-bound GRAIL spacecraft and the United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket that will send them on their mission were reported ready to fly, with th ... more | .. |
 NASA orbiter shows moon surface in stunning clarity A NASA spacecraft has snapped the clearest views ever of the surface of the moon, down to the tire tracks and footprints left by visiting astronauts decades ago in the lunar soil. ... more | .. |
 Hubble Movies Provide Unprecedented View of Supersonic Jets from Young Stars New movies created from years of still images collected by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope provide new details about the stellar birthing process, showing energetic jets of glowing gas ejected from yo ... more | .. |
 Mercury Planetary Orbiter wraps up for hot work The installation of high-temperature thermal blankets on the Structural and Thermal Model of the BepiColombo Mercury Planetary Orbiter has been completed. The spacecraft has been mounted on its Ther ... more |
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 From a flat mirror, designer light Exploiting a novel technique called phase discontinuity, researchers at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have induced light rays to behave in a way that defies the centu ... more | .. |
 Scientists observe smallest atomic displacements ever An international team of scientists has developed a novel X-ray technique for imaging atomic displacements in materials with unprecedented accuracy. They have applied their technique to determine ho ... more | .. |
 Digital quantum simulator realized Almost two years ago Rainer Blatt's and Christan Roos' research groups from the University of Innsbruck recreated the properties of a particle moving close to speed of light in a quantum system. ... more | .. |
 UCSB physicists demonstrate the quantum von Neumann architecture A new paradigm in quantum information processing has been demonstrated by physicists at UC Santa Barbara. Their results are published in this week's issue of Science Express online. UCSB physi ... more |
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Map Africa project to deliver continentwide geospatial data for 54 nations
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 To Clear Digital Waste in Computers Think Green A digital dumping ground lies inside most computers, a wasteland where old, rarely used and unneeded files pile up. Such data can deplete precious storage space, bog down the system's efficiency and ... more | .. |
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 Discovery Sheds Light on Ecosystem of Young Galaxies A team of scientists, led by Michael Rauch from the Carnegie Observatories, has discovered a distant galaxy that may help elucidate two fundamental questions of galaxy formation: How galaxies take i ... more | .. |
  A Fish that Leaps to Land One of the world's strangest animals - a unique fish that lives on land and can leap large distances despite having no legs - has a rich and complex social life, a new study has found. The odd ... more |
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 Record-low error rate for quantum information processing with one qubit Thanks to advances in experimental design, physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have achieved a record-low probability of error in quantum information processing w ... more | .. |
 NASA Needs Strategic Plan to Manage Orbital Debris Efforts Although NASA's meteoroid and orbital debris programs have responsibly used their resources, the agency's management structure has not kept pace with increasing hazards posed by abandoned equipment, ... more | .. |
 Alien Life More Likely on Dune Planets Desert planets strikingly like the world depicted in the science fiction classic "Dune" might be the more common type of habitable planet in the galaxy, rather than watery planets such as Earth, res ... more | .. |
  Japanese Asteroid Mission a Success A space mission to a nearby asteroid launched in 2005 has yielded some interesting clues about Earth's early formation. Japanese scientists on that mission report in the journal Science that despite ... more |
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