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March 14, 2012
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Lockheed Martin Space Fence Radar Prototype Tracking Orbiting Objects
Moorestown NJ (SPX) Mar 14, 2012
A prototype of a new radar system developed by a Lockheed Martin-led team is now tracking orbiting space objects, bringing the U.S. Air Force's Space Fence program one step closer to revolutionizing our nation's space situational awareness. Utilizing powerful, new ground-based radars, Space Fence will enhance the way the U.S. detects, tracks, measures and catalogs orbiting objects and space debris with improved accuracy, better timeliness and increased surveillance coverage. Lockheed Martin's prot ... read more

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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Missing: Electron antineutrinos; Reward: Understanding of matter-antimatter imbalance
An international particle physics collaboration has announced its first results toward answering a longstanding question - how the elusive particles called neutrinos can appear to vanish as they tra ... more
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SOLAR SCIENCE

Earth's protective bubble hasn't burst
For the first time, the loss of atmospheric ions from Earth and Mars has been observed during the same solar wind stream. In a new study, data from ESA's Cluster and Mars Express spacecraft, which o ... more
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TECH SPACE

NASA exploring ways to clean up space debris
Faced with increasing threats of space debris, the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is actively exploring ways to clean up the outer space. Donald Kessler, an astrophysi ... more
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MOON DAILY

Russia sets sights on Moon, Mars and beyond: report
Russia's crisis-hit space agency intends to send its first manned mission to the Moon and deploy research stations on Mars under an ambitious plan presented to the government this month. ... more
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EXO WORLDS

Kepler Statistical Analysis Suggests Earthlike Planets Extremely Rare
Last week, the Kepler science team released its list of candidate planets based on the data collected during the mission's first sixteen months. ... more
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SKY NIGHTLY

Venus, Jupiter in night sky dance
An unusual opportunity to see two of the brightest planets, Venus and Jupiter, appear to be right next to each other in the night sky is peaking in the next two days, astronomers said. ... more
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DEEP IMPACT

Encounters of another kind: meteorite chunk falls on Oslo
A Norwegian family was flabbergasted to find that what appeared to be a piece of a meteorite had crashed through the roof of their allotment garden hut in the middle of Oslo, media reported Monday. ... more
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Trump gives Russia 50 days to make Ukraine deal
Pentagon inks contracts for Musk's xAI, competitors
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MERCURY RISING

MESSENGER Team Delivers Data from First Full Mercury Solar Day to Planetary Data System
Data collected during MESSENGER's third through sixth month in orbit around Mercury were released to the public by the Planetary Data System (PDS), an organization that archives and distributes all ... more
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EXO LIFE

Meteorites Reveal Another Way to Make Life's Components
Creating some of life's building blocks in space may be a bit like making a sandwich - you can make them cold or hot, according to new NASA research. This evidence that there is more than one way to ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

NASA's RXTE Captures Thermonuclear Behavior of Unique Neutron Star
A neutron star is the closest thing to a black hole that astronomers can observe directly, crushing half a million times more mass than Earth into a sphere no larger than a city. In October 2010, a ... more
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TIME AND SPACE

Experiment Observes Elusive Neutrino Transformation
An international team of physicists-including several from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech)-has detected and measured, for the first time, a transformation of one particular type of ... more
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SOLAR SCIENCE

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. The team led by ... more
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EXO LIFE

Hot Meets Cold at New Deep-Sea Ecosystem: "Hydrothermal Seep"
Decades ago, marine scientists made a startling discovery in the deep sea. They found environments known as hydrothermal vents, where hot water surges from the seafloor and life thrives without sunl ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Distant galaxy cluster found in plain view
A team of astronomers has discovered the most distant example of a galaxy cluster lying in the middle of one of the most well-studied regions in the sky. Galaxy clusters are the 'urban centres' of t ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Galaxy cluster hidden in plain view
A team of astronomers has discovered the most distant cluster of red galaxies ever observed using FourStar, a new and powerful near-infrared camera on the 6.5m Magellan Baade Telescope. The galaxy c ... more
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TECH SPACE

Workforce from the Digital Cloud
By means of cloud computing, enterprises can access scalable computing power and storage capacity. A people cloud, by contrast, supplies a scalable number of workers via the internet. It is us ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Antlia Dwarf Galaxy Peppers the Sky with Stars
The myriad faint stars that comprise the Antlia Dwarf galaxy are more than four million light-years from Earth, but this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image offers such clarity that they could be ... more
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SOLAR SCIENCE

Storms from the Sun
Space weather starts at the Sun. It begins with an eruption such as a huge burst of light and radiation called a solar flare or a gigantic cloud of solar material called a coronal mass ejection (CME ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Mystery deepens around dark core in cosmic collision
Five years ago, San Francisco State researcher Andisheh Mahdavi and his colleagues observed an unexpected dark core at the center of Abell 520, a cosmic "train wreck" of galaxy clusters. With new sp ... more
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MOON DAILY

Twin GRAIL Spacecraft Begin Collecting Lunar Science Data
NASA's Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) spacecraft orbiting the moon officially have begun their science collection phase. During the next 84 days, scientists will obtain a hig ... more
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MOON DAILY

Apollo 12: Pinpoint Landing on the Ocean of Storms
This image shows the remnants of not one, but two missions to the moon. Apollo 12 astronauts Pete Conrad and Alan Bean demonstrated that a precision lunar landing with the Apollo system was possible ... more
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SOLAR SCIENCE

Impact of solar storm less than feared
A massive solar storm hitting Earth is having less impact on satellites, power grids and communications than some had feared, U.S. space weather experts say. ... more
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SOLAR SCIENCE

Solar storm could disrupt Summer Olympics
The Summer Olympics could be crippled by a solar storm far more potent than the one currently wearing away at Earth's magnetic field, a British physicist said. ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Dark Matter Core Defies Explanation
Astronomers using data from NASA's Hubble Telescope have observed what appears to be a clump of dark matter left behind from a wreck between massive clusters of galaxies. The result could challenge ... more
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SOLAR SCIENCE

Age of warning satellite causes concern
A U.S. satellite giving the only advance warning of incoming high-energy solar particles is getting old and is possibly on its last legs, researchers say. ... more
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EXO WORLDS

Star Comb joins quest for Earth-like planets
If there is life on other planets, a laser frequency comb developed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) may help find it. Such a comb-a tool for precisely measuring frequenc ... more
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EXO WORLDS

Stars with Dusty Disks Should Harbor Earth-like Worlds
Stars with disks of debris around them might be good targets to search for Earth-like planets, researchers say. Debris disks consist of fields of planetesimals and dust encircling stars. A few hundr ... more
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MOON DAILY

Apollo 11: 'A Stark Beauty All Its Own'
This image of the Apollo 11 landing site captured from just 24 km (15 miles) above the surface provides LRO's best look yet at humanity's first venture to another world. When Neil Armstrong took his ... more
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MOON DAILY

Magnetic moon
In the nearly five decades since the first lunar surveys were conducted as part of NASA's Apollo program, scientists have advanced a number of increasingly complex theories to explain the vast swath ... more
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MOON DAILY

Apollo 15: Follow the Tracks
The Apollo 15 Lunar Module (LM) Falcon set down on the Hadley plains (26.132 degrees N, 3.634 degrees E) a mere 2 kilometers from Hadley Rille. The goals: sample the basalts that compose the m ... more
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TECH SPACE

Dr. Strangelove and How I Learned to Love Space Debris
The whole issue of space debris smacks of Peter Sellers' character in Dr. Strangelove where one hand was trying to do the opposite of the other. This is much like the U.S. government's approac ... more
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