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NASA Mission Returns First Video From Lunar Far SidePasadena CA (JPL) Feb 02, 2012 A camera aboard one of NASA's twin Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) lunar spacecraft has returned its first unique view of the far side of the moon. MoonKAM, or Moon Knowledge Acquired by Middle school students, will be used by students nationwide to select lunar images for study. GRAIL consists of two identical spacecraft, recently named Ebb and Flow, each of which is equipped with a MoonKAM. The images were taken as part of a test of Ebb's MoonKAM on Jan. 19. The GRAIL project pl ... read more |
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  IBEX: Glimpses of the Interstellar Material Beyond our Solar System A great magnetic bubble surrounds the solar system as it cruises through the galaxy. The sun pumps the inside of the bubble full of solar particles that stream out to the edge until they collide wit ... more | .. |
  Sun delivered curveball of powerful radiation at Earth A potent follow-up solar flare, which occurred Friday (Jan. 27, 2012), just days after the Sun launched the biggest coronal mass ejection (CME) seen in nearly a decade, delivered a powerful radiatio ... more | .. |
 Colorful Solar Instrument Treks East for a New Career One of the world's most colorful solar instruments is moving across country for a new life dissecting the chemistry of comets and stars. The Fourier Transform Spectrometer (FTS) recently ended its c ... more | .. |
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 "Cool" Gas May Form and Strengthen Sunspots Hydrogen molecules may act as a kind of energy sink that strengthens the magnetic grip that causes sunspots, according to scientists from Hawaii and New Mexico using a new infrared instrument on an ... more | .. |
  Vesta Science Program Continues At Low-altitude Mapping Orbit Dawn is scrutinizing Vesta from its low-altitude mapping orbit (LAMO), circling the rocky world five and a half times a day. The spacecraft is healthy and continuing its intensive campaign to reveal ... more | .. |
 Solar Storms Blasting Electrons from Earth's Van Allen Belts Scientists say they have solved the mystery of why electrically-charged particles trapped in radiation belts thousands of kilometers above the Earth suddenly vanish and then reappear during periods ... more | .. |
  Rice lab mimics Jupiter's Trojan asteroids inside a single atom Rice University physicists have gone to extremes to prove that Isaac Newton's classical laws of motion can apply in the atomic world: They've built an accurate model of part of the solar system insi ... more |
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China, India should work towards 'win-win' cooperation: Chinese FM
US delays Patriot arms deliveries to Switzerland in switch to Ukraine
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  Ground Truthing Mineralogical Data Collected By Orbiting Satellites PLL has been moved to its summer home on the northwest finger of Laguna Negra. Meanwhile, back on the south shore, Jeff Moersch, an assistant professor of Earth and planetary sciences at the Univers ... more | .. |
 Scientists See "Sloshing" Galaxy Cluster A Naval Research Laboratory scientist is part of a team that has recently discovered that vast clouds of hot gas are "sloshing" in Abell 2052, a galaxy cluster located about 480 million light years ... more | .. |
  Solar Eclipse over the USA On Sunday, May 20th, the sun is going to turn into a ring of fire. It's an annular solar eclipse--the first one in the USA in almost 18 years. An annular eclipse occurs when the Moon passes di ... more | .. |
 Seekers of alien contact renew search The search for intelligent life elsewhere in the universe is back on, after a yearlong delay due to funding problems, U.S. researchers said. ... more |
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  On-again/off-again 'planet' elusive A possible planet outside our solar system captured by the Hubble space telescope has failed to show up in subsequent searches, U.S. astronomers say. ... more | .. |
  Publicity and Panic for Satellite Re-Entries Space agencies struggle with the technical issues surrounding uncontrolled satellite re-entries. It's hard to predict when or where a bird will finally come down. Usually, the low risk of any damage ... more | .. |
 SwRI-led RAD measures radiation from solar storm The largest solar particle event since 2005 hit the Earth, Mars and the Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft travelling in-between, allowing the onboard Radiation Assessment Detector to measure the ra ... more | .. |
 X1.8 Solar Flare and CME The sun unleashed an X1.8 class flare that began at 1:12 PM ET on January 27, 2012 and peaked at 1:37. The flare immediately caused a strong radio blackout at low-latitudes, which was rated an R3 on ... more |
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New deep sea mining rules lack consensus despite US pressure
Lightning strikes kill 33 people in eastern India
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 ISS Orbit Raised to Avoid Collision with Space Junk Specialists of Russia's Mission Control Center raised the orbit altitude of the International Space Station (ISS) in the early hours of Sunday to prevent a possible collision with a Chinese satellit ... more | .. |
 NASA's THEMIS Satellite Sees a Great Electron Escape When scientists discovered two great swaths of radiation encircling Earth in the 1950s, it spawned over-the-top fears about "killer electrons" and space radiation effects on Earthlings. The fears we ... more | .. |
 Space Weather Center to Add World's First 'Ensemble Forecasting' Capability After years of relative somnolence, the sun is beginning to stir. By the time it's fully awake in about 20 months, the team at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., charged with rese ... more | .. |
 UCLA astronomers solve mystery of vanishing electrons UCLA researchers have explained the puzzling disappearing act of energetic electrons in Earth's outer radiation belt, using data collected from a fleet of orbiting spacecraft. In a paper publi ... more |
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 A Moon Colony by 2020 Last Week, while addressing a Florida Space Coast audience, GOP candidate Newt Gingrich pledged to create a moon colony if elected president. This may at first seem far-fetched and an act of panderi ... more | .. |
 Bus-sized asteroid shaves by Earth An asteroid about the size of a bus shaved by Earth on Friday in what spacewatchers described as a "near-miss," though experts were not concerned about the possibility of an impact. ... more | .. |
 Cosmology in a petri dish Scientists have found that micron-size particles which are trapped at fluid interfaces exhibit a collective dynamic that is subject to seemingly unrelated governing laws. These laws show a smooth tr ... more | .. |
 NASA's Kepler Announces 11 Planetary Systems Hosting 26 Planets NASA's Kepler mission has discovered 11 new planetary systems hosting 26 confirmed planets. These discoveries nearly double the number of verified Kepler planets and triple the number of stars known ... more |
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One billion Africans being harmed by cooking pollution
US reaches civil nuclear cooperation accord with Bahrain
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 U.S. Presidential Hopeful Promises Moon Base by 2020 US Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich has promised to build a moon base by 2020 if he becomes the next U.S. President in November, the Former Speaker of the House of Representatives said ... more | .. |
 Wild Early Lives of Today's Most Massive Galaxies Astronomers have combined observations from the LABOCA camera on the ESO-operated 12-meter Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) telescope [1] with measurements made with ESO's Very Large Telescope, ... more | .. |
 INTEGRAL reveals new facets of the Vela pulsar wind nebula Astronomers studying the Vela pulsar wind nebula with ESA's INTEGRAL observatory have successfully resolved its morphology in the hard X-ray band, for the first time. This pulsar-powered nebula is t ... more | .. |
 Does antimatter weigh more than matter Does antimatter behave differently in gravity than matter? Physicists at the University of California, Riverside have set out to determine the answer. Should they find it, it could explain why the u ... more |
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 Classifying Solar Eruptions Solar flares are giant explosions on the sun that send energy, light and high speed particles into space. These flares are often associated with solar magnetic storms known as coronal mass ejections ... more | .. |
 Rocket Man: Gingrich peddles space dreams in Florida Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich has stirred strong passions by claiming he will establish a permanent moon base by 2020 if elected, but experts say he is living on another planet. ... more | .. |
 Moon looms bright over Republican debate Republican White House hopefuls set their sights high Thursday with some vowing they would shoot for the moon and restore American supremacy in space if elected. ... more | .. |
 NASA's NuSTAR Ships to Vandenberg for March 14 Launch NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, shipped to Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., on Tuesday, to be mated to its Pegasus launch vehicle. The observatory will detect X-rays from ... more |
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