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Looking at the Man in the MoonPasadena CA (SPX) Mar 07, 2012 Many of us see a man in the moon-a human face smiling down at us from the lunar surface. The "face," of course, is just an illusion, shaped by the dark splotches of lunar maria (smooth plains formed from the lava of ancient volcanic eruptions). Like a loyal friend, the man is always there, constantly gazing at us as the moon revolves around Earth, locked in what's called a synchronous orbit, in which the moon rotates exactly once every time it orbits Earth. But why did the moon settle into an orbi ... read more |
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  Cassini Detects Hint of Fresh Air at Dione NASA's Cassini spacecraft has "sniffed" molecular oxygen ions around Saturn's icy moon Dione for the first time, confirming the presence of a very tenuous atmosphere. The oxygen ions are quite ... more | .. |
  Flying Through a Geomagnetic Storm Glowing green and red, shimmering hypnotically across the night sky, the aurora borealis is a wonder to behold. Longtime sky watchers say it is the greatest show on Earth. It might be the grea ... more | .. |
 Lunar lander firing up for touchdown Europe's ambition of touching down at the Moon's south pole by 2018 has been boosted by recent test firings of the craft's thrusters. The robot lander will prove new techniques for sending humans to ... more | .. |
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  Dear Ups and Dawns Dawn is continuing its exploits at Vesta, performing detailed studies of the colossal asteroid from its low altitude mapping orbit (LAMO). The robotic ambassador is operating extremely well on behal ... more | .. |
 China to launch moon-landing orbiter in 2013 China's third lunar probe, Chang'e-3, is expected to be launched next year and conduct a moon landing and lunar explorations, its designer said. Different from the previous two orbiters, Chang ... more | .. |
 NASA Solar Study Mission Moves to Next Design Stage Two-thousand-degree temperatures, supersonic solar particles, intense radiation - all of this awaits NASA's Solar Probe Plus during an unprecedented close-up study of the sun. A team led by th ... more | .. |
  Messenger Modifies Orbit to Prepare for Extended Mission Messenger successfully completed an orbit-correction maneuver this evening to lower its periapsis altitude - the lowest point of Messenger's orbit about Mercury relative to the planet's surface - fr ... more |
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Ukraine 'shouldn't target' Moscow: Trump
Trump gives Russia 50 days to make Ukraine deal
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  Two crystals linked by quantum physics For almost fifteen years Professor Nicolas Gisin and his physicist collaborators have been entangling photons. If this exercise seems to them perhaps henceforth trivial, it continues to elude us ord ... more | .. |
 World's best measurement of W boson mass points to Higgs mass and tests Standard Model The world's most precise measurement of the mass of the W boson, one of nature's elementary particles, has been achieved by scientists from the CDF and DZero collaborations at the Department of Ener ... more | .. |
  New model provides different take on planetary accretion The prevailing model for planetary accretion, also called fractal assembly, and dating back as far as the 18th century, assumes that the Solar System's planets grew as small grains colliding chaotic ... more | .. |
 Researchers say galaxy may swarm with 'nomad planets' Our galaxy may be awash in homeless planets, wandering through space instead of orbiting a star. In fact, there may be 100,000 times more "nomad planets" in the Milky Way than stars, according ... more |
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  Acidic Europa May Eat Away at Chances for Life The ocean underneath the icy shell of Jupiter's moon Europa could be too acid to support life, due to compounds that may regularly migrate downward from its surface, researchers find. Europa, ... more | .. |
  Young Stars Flicker Amidst Clouds of Gas and Dust Astronomers have spotted young stars in the Orion nebula changing right before their eyes, thanks to the European Space Agency's Herschel Space Observatory and NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. The co ... more | .. |
 VLT rediscovers life on Earth By looking at the moon "We used a trick called earthshine observation to look at the Earth as if it were an exoplanet," says Michael Sterzik (ESO), lead author of the paper. "The Sun shines on the Earth and this light is ... more | .. |
 BepiColombo Mercury mission to be launched in 2015 BepiColombo, an ESA mission to the planet Mercury in collaboration with the Japanese space agency, JAXA, is now planned for launch in a window opening in August 2015. While ESA had previously ... more |
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Underappreciated threat of nanoplastic pollution revealed in Atlantic Ocean study
Deadly China-Nepal flood caused by glacial lake: experts
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 Scientists Shed Light On Lunar Impact History A team of researchers from the NASA Lunar Science Institute (NLSI) at NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., have discovered that debris that caused a "lunar cataclysm" on the moon 4 bi ... more | .. |
 Asteroid 2011 AG5 - A Reality Check Asteroid 2011 AG5 has been receiving a lot of attention lately because of a very unlikely scenario which would place it on an Earth-interception course 28 years from now. Here is a scientific realit ... more | .. |
 A study describes liquid water diffusion at molecular level Researchers at the universities of Granada and Barcelona have described for the first time the diffusion of liquid water through nanochannels in molecular terms; nanochannels are extremely tiny chan ... more | .. |
 New Research Points to Erosional Origin of Linear Dunes Linear dunes, widespread on Earth and Saturn's moon, Titan, are generally considered to have been formed by deposits of windblown sand. It has been speculated for some time that some linear dunes ma ... more |
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  IBM takes giant step to faster, quantum computers IBM researchers have taken a leap in computing by using quantum mechanics to harness the power of atoms and molecules, a move likely to lead to vast increases in speed and security of computers and other devices. ... more | .. |
 Mysterious electron acceleration explained A mysterious phenomenon detected by space probes has finally been explained, thanks to a massive computer simulation that was able to precisely align with details of spacecraft observations. The fin ... more | .. |
 XMM-Newton measures the power of black-hole driven outflows in galaxies Astronomers using ESA's XMM-Newton X-ray Observatory have discovered that ultra-fast outflows are quite common in active galaxies. About 40 per cent of the sources in their sample show outflows that ... more | .. |
 Ultra-fast Outflows Help Monster Black Holes Shape Their Galaxies A curious correlation between the mass of a galaxy's central black hole and the velocity of stars in a vast, roughly spherical structure known as its bulge has puzzled astronomers for years. An inte ... more |
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Iraq's Kurdistan enjoys all-day state electricity
Nvidia's Huang says China's open-source AI a 'catalyst for progress'
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 Light in slow motion How long does it take an electron to form a photon? The answer would normally be: so short a time that it cannot be measured. However, the international CERN team responsible for experiment NA63 - m ... more | .. |
 Scientists score victory over uncertainty in quantum physics measurements Most people attempt to reduce the little uncertainties of life by carrying umbrellas on cloudy days, purchasing automobile insurance or hiring inspectors to evaluate homes they might consider purcha ... more | .. |
 NIST reveals switching mechanism in promising computer memory device Sometimes knowing that a new technology works is not enough. You also must know why it works to get marketplace acceptance. New information from the National Institute of Standards and Technol ... more | .. |
 Scientists say big asteroid bears watching Scientists at a United Nations meeting in Vienna say they're keeping a close eye on a large asteroid that may pose an impact threat to Earth in a few decades. ... more |
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 Rhea Before Titan Craters appear well defined on icy Rhea in front of the hazy orb of the much larger moon Titan in this Cassini spacecraft view of these two Saturn moons. Lit terrain seen here is on the leadin ... more | .. |
 Black Hole Came From A Shredded Galaxy Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have found a cluster of young, blue stars encircling the first intermediate-mass black hole ever discovered. The presence of the star cluster suggests ... more | .. |
 Preview of a Forthcoming Supernova At the turn of the 19th century, the binary star system Eta Carinae was faint and undistinguished. In the first decades of the century, it became brighter and brighter, until, by April 1843, it was ... more | .. |
 Five Solar Eruptions in 2 Days - CME On the Way From February 23 through February 24 our sun produced an astonishing five solar eruptions, launched from the top, bottom, left and right sides of the solar disk. Four of those eruptions came in just ... more |
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