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MESSENGER Team Presents New Mercury Findings at Planetary ConferenceNantes, France (SPX) Oct 06, 2011 MESSENGER scientists on Wednesday highlighted the latest results on Mercury from MESSENGER observations obtained during the first six months (the first Mercury solar day) in orbit. The findings were presented in 30 papers and posters as part of a special session of the joint meeting of the European Planetary Science Congress and the Division for Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society in Nantes, Frances. Scientists will also look ahead to MESSENGER observations still to come and to ... read more |
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  University of Texas-led Team Discovers Unusual Multi-Planet System with NASA's Kepler Spacecraft A team of researchers led by Bill Cochran of The University of Texas at Austin has used NASA's Kepler spacecraft to discover an unusual multiple-planet system containing a super-Earth and two Neptun ... more | .. |
  Dawn at Vesta: Massive mountains, rough surface, and old-young dichotomy in hemispheres NASA's Dawn mission, which has been orbiting Vesta since mid-July, has revealed that the asteroid's southern hemisphere boasts one of the largest mountains in the Solar System. Other results show th ... more | .. |
 Herschel finds first evidence of Earth-like water in a comet A team of astronomers using ESA's Herschel Space Observatory have discovered the first comet containing water that is similar in isotopic composition to that in Earth's oceans. This detection, in th ... more | .. |
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  Astronomers reveal supernova factory The discovery proves what astronomers have long believed: that the galaxies which are the universe's most efficient star-factories are also supernova factories. The astronomers used a worldwide netw ... more | .. |
  NASA Invites Students to Name Moon-Bound Spacecraft NASA has a class assignment for U.S. students: help the agency give the twin spacecraft headed to orbit around the moon new names. The naming contest is open to students in kindergarten throug ... more | .. |
  Saturn's Geyser Moon Enceladus Shows off for NASA's Cassini NASA's Cassini spacecraft successfully completed its Oct. 1 flyby of Saturn's moon Enceladus and its jets of water vapor and ice. At its closest approach, the spacecraft flew approximately 62 miles ... more | .. |
  The Most Distant and Ancient Supernovae in the Young Universe A team of Japanese, Israeli, and U.S. astronomers used the Subaru Telescope to assemble the largest sample ever found of the most distant exploding stars called supernovae, which emitted their light ... more |
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BlackSky to supply satellite imagery and analytics for Latin American security operations
GovSat selects Thales Alenia Space to build secure satellite for military communications
SES and Luxembourg to expand military satcom with next generation GovSat2 | .. |
  UK set to unlock the secrets of the Sun and search for dark energy Two major new space missions with significant UK involvement have just been given the green light. With funding from the UK Space Agency, space scientists and industry partners in the UK are set to ... more | .. |
  Draconid Meteor Outburst On October 8th Earth is going to plow through a stream of dust from Comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner, and the result could be an outburst of Draconid meteors. "We're predicting as many as 750 meteors per ... more | .. |
 Enceladus Weather Includes Snow Flurries Global and high resolution mapping of Enceladus confirms that the weather forecast for Saturn's unique icy moon is set for ongoing snow flurries. The superfine ice crystals that coat Enceladus's sur ... more | .. |
 Extreme Space Weather at Mercury Blasts the Planet's Poles The solar wind sandblasts the surface of planet Mercury at its poles, according to new data from a University of Michigan instrument on board NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft. The sodium and oxygen ... more |
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 The 'Pacman Nebula' High-mass stars are important because they are responsible for much of the energy pumped into our galaxy over its lifetime. Unfortunately, these stars are poorly understood because they are of ... more | .. |
  ESA spacecraft reveal new anatomy around a black hole A fleet of spacecraft including ESA's XMM-Newton and Integral have shown unprecedented details close to a supermassive black hole. They reveal huge 'bullets' of gas being driven away from the 'gravi ... more | .. |
  Gravitational waves that are 'sounds of universe' Einstein wrote about them, and we're still looking for them - gravitational waves, which are small ripples in the fabric of space-time, that many consider to be the sounds of our universe. Jus ... more | .. |
 'Dark energy' targeted in European space mission So-called dark energy, believed to play a role in the accelerated expansion of the Universe, will be studied in a major science mission to be launched later this decade, the European Space Agency (ESA) said on Tuesday. ... more |
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One billion years of protein evolution reveals surprising design flexibility
MetOp Second Generation satellite fully fuelled ahead of August launch
We tracked illegal fishing in marine protected areas - satellites and AI show most bans are respected, and could help enforce future ones | .. |
 Compression experiments lead to shocking results Using acceleration 1 trillion times faster than a jet fighter in a maximum turn, researchers have gained new insight into dynamic compression of aluminum at ultrahigh strain rates. Controlled ... more | .. |
 First Images from ALMA The detailed views of star-formation in the Antennae Galaxies are the first astronomical test images released to the public from the growing Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and c ... more | .. |
 Dawn's fourth anniversary Dawn's fourth anniversary of being in space is very different from its previous ones. Indeed, those days all were devoted to reaching the distant destination the ship is now exploring. Celebrating i ... more | .. |
 Microgravity Science Glovebox Team Celebrates 10,000 Hours of Glovebox Operation The Microgravity Science Glovebox team has reason to celebrate. On Sept. 13 at 7:45 p.m. CDT, the science facility hit 10,000 hours of operation, orbiting high above us on board the International Sp ... more |
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 Supercomputer Enables Largest Cosmological Simulations Scientists have generated the largest and most realistic cosmological simulations of the evolving universe to-date, thanks to NASA's powerful Pleiades supercomputer. Using the "Bolshoi" simulation c ... more | .. |
 Heavy Metal Stars Produce Earth-Like Planets Based on data from NASA's Kepler space telescope, astronomers hunting for terrestrial planets should focus on smaller stars with an abundance of metals. New research reveals that, like their giant c ... more | .. |
 In Chile desert, huge telescope begins galaxy probe A powerful telescope affording a view of the universe unmatched by most ground-based observatories gazed onto distant galaxies for the first time Monday from deep in Chile's Atacama desert. ... more | .. |
 Doubts Over Fomalhaut b As astronomers continue to rack up exoplanet discoveries by the dozen, the precise status of just one may not seem like much to fret over. But Fomalhaut b is different. Unveiled in 2008, the t ... more |
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MicroCarb satellite launches to map global carbon dioxide emissions from space
Chemistry breakthroughs open new frontiers in industrial carbon capture
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 MESSENGER Reveals Flood Lavas Hollows and Unprecedented Surface Details Of Mercury After only six months in orbit around Mercury, NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft is sending back information that has revolutionized the way scientists think about the innermost planet. Analyses of ... more | .. |
 NASA Space Telescope Finds Fewer Asteroids Near Earth New observations by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, show there are significantly fewer near-Earth asteroids in the mid-size range than previously thought. The findings also indi ... more | .. |
 Sunspot 1302 Continues to Turn Toward Earth The severe geomagnetic storm (Kp=7-8) that began yesterday when a CME hit Earth's magnetic field is subsiding. At the peak of the disturbance, auroras were sighted around both poles and in more than ... more | .. |
  European experts follow satellite reentry ESA closely monitored the reentry on 24 September of the UARS observatory satellite. The Agency's Space Debris Office worked with NASA and international partners in a coordinated prediction and risk ... more |
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 Earth's Trapped Gas Fed the Early Atmosphere An international team of scientists has provided new insights into the processes behind the evolution of the planet by demonstrating how salty water and gases transfer from the atmosphere into the E ... more | .. |
 Astronomers crack the Fried Egg Nebula Using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT), teams from The University of Manchester, among others, took the new picture showing for the first time a huge dusty double shell ... more | .. |
 Little threat to Earth from big asteroid: NASA Fewer giant asteroids are out in space than once thought and most of the biggest near-Earth asteroids have been found, leaving little threat of one smashing into the planet, NASA said Thursday. ... more | .. |
 Another satellite to fall in November Another dead, drifting satellite will fall to Earth in November, following the U.S. satellite that showered pieces over the Pacific Ocean Saturday, experts say. ... more |
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