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Sturdy Rover Gets No Penalty For Tilting Pasadena CA (SPX) Mar 25, 2008 
Scarcely a pinball wizard on Earth could tilt the machine nearly 30 degrees without ending play, yet engineers tilted NASA's Spirit rover 29.9 degrees and completed the robotic equivalent of a one-armed toe-touch to test its stability. The rover remained in play, racking up scientific data points after remaining perfectly balanced even while pressing the ground with its Mossbauer spectrometer ... read more |
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Multi-Tasking Rover Helps Pave The Way For Next Mars Mission
Pasadena CA (SPX) Mar 25, 2008Opportunity completed the first leg of a two-part drive toward an area of scientific interest known as "Gilbert" that involved moving backward in order to continue the drive without running into some unexpectedly deep soil to the rover's right. En route, Opportunity spent two Martian days acquiring compositional data from a rock exposure dubbed "Lyell-Exeter," measured argon gas in the Martian a ... more US shuttle Endeavour heads home after record mission 
Washington (AFP) March 24, 2008The US space shuttle Endeavour began its trek home to Earth Monday after a record five successful spacewalks and 12 days at the International Space Station where astronauts installed Japan's maiden ISS laboratory. With the installation Japan gained a foothold on the orbital outpost alongside the United States, Russia and Europe, whose laboratory Columbus was delivered to the station in Febru ... more Searching For Earth 
Moffet Field CA (SPX) Mar 25, 2008In the past decade, astronomers have found more than 250 planets orbiting distant stars. Most of these have been giant planets, the size of Saturn or Jupiter, or larger. A few have been Neptune-size. No-one, however, has yet found the holy grail of extrasolar planets: an Earth-size planet with an Earth-like orbit around a sun-like star. That's about to change. NASA's Kepler mission, select ... more Boomerang works in space: Japanese astronaut 
Tokyo (AFP) March 21, 2008In an unprecedented experiment, a Japanese astronaut has thrown a boomerang in space and confirmed it flies back much like on Earth. Astronaut Takao Doi "threw a boomerang and saw it come back" during his free time on March 18 at the International Space Station, a spokeswoman at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency said on Friday. Doi threw the boomerang after a request from compatriot ... more Spacewalkers test new shuttle repair techniques 
Washington (AFP) March 21, 2008Two astronauts returned from the void Friday after a spacewalk to test new repair techniques for the space shuttle's heat shield, crucial for a new mission to the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope. Astronauts Robert Behnken and Mike Foreman, who arrived at the International Space Station aboard the shuttle Endeavour last week, spent six hours and 24 minutes outside the ISS working on ... more |
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Paris, France (ESA) Mar 22, 2008Jules Verne ATV is lining up for Europe's first-ever automated docking in space. Following two demonstrations, the final 'putt' must be more accurate and gentle than on any rolling golf green. Now that the vessel is 'on the green' - in a parking orbit 2000 m ahead of the ISS - ATV mission controllers must pace the spacecraft through two pending and crucial demonstration dockings, moving ... more Cassini Spacecraft Finds Ocean May Exist Beneath Titan Crust 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Mar 20, 2008NASA's Cassini spacecraft has discovered evidence that points to the existence of an underground ocean of water and ammonia on Saturn's moon Titan. The findings made using radar measurements of Titan's rotation will appear in the March 21 issue of the journal Science. "With its organic dunes, lakes, channels and mountains, Titan has one of the most varied, active and Earth-like surfaces in ... more Mars Salt Deposits Point To New Place In Hunt For Ancient Traces Of Life 
Tempe AZ (SPX) Mar 20, 2008Scientists using a Mars-orbiting camera designed and operated at Arizona State University's Mars Space Flight Facility have discovered the first evidence for deposits of chloride minerals - salts - in numerous places on Mars. These deposits, say the scientists, show where water was once abundant and may also provide evidence for the existence of former Martian life. ... more Salt Deposits May Have Evidence Of Life On Mars 
Washington (AFP) March 20, 2008US scientists have discovered salt deposits on the surface of Mars, indicating that water was once plenty and pointing sites that could provide evidence of past life, a study said Thursday. The deposits were discovered by a team of scientists led by Mikki Osterloo at the University of Hawaii using thermal images from the orbiting Mars Odyssey spacecraft, according to research in the March 21 ... more |
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Colombo (AFP) March 19, 2008British-born science fiction guru Arthur C. Clarke died at a hospital in Sri Lanka on Wednesday after a brief illness, his aide Rohan de Silva told AFP. He was 90. President Mahinda Rajapakse mourned the death of Clarke and paid tribute to him as a "great visionary." His death was a loss to Sri Lanka, the author's adopted home since 1956, Rajapakse said. "The president was deeply saddened ... more Methane Spotted On Extrasolar Planet 
Paris (ESA) March 19, 2008Astronomers on Wednesday announced they had detected methane in the atmosphere of a planet 63 light years away, boosting prospects for identifying any life that exists beyond our Solar System. The team also confirmed previous suspicions that the planet, known by the tag of HD 189733b, has water in its atmosphere. Reporting their work in the weekly British journal Nature, astronomers from ... more NASA Awards Contracts For Design Study Of Lunar Landing Craft 
Houston TX (SPX) Mar 20, 2008NASA's Constellation Program has selected five space-related companies to receive contract awards for a 210-day study to independently evaluate NASA's in-house design concept for a lunar lander that will deliver four astronauts to the surface of the moon by 2020. The awards total approximately $1.5 million, with a maximum individual award of $350,000. The study recommendations will be used ... more Astronauts assemble Canadian robot on 7-hour walk 
Washington (AFP) March 18, 2008Two US astronauts finished assembling the Canadian robot Dextre on Tuesday during a nearly seven-hour space walk outside the International Space Station, NASA said. Rick Linnehan and Robert Behnken put together the tool-handling assembly of the 200 million dollar (126 million euro) robot and attached a spare-parts platform, readying Dextre to undertake delicate maintenance tasks which have ... more
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