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November 30, 2012

Spacecraft Finds New Evidence for Water Ice on Mercury
Washington DC (SPX) Nov 30, 2012
New observations by the MESSENGER spacecraft provide compelling support for the long-held hypothesis that Mercury harbors abundant water ice and other frozen volatile materials in its permanently shadowed polar craters. Three independent lines of evidence support this conclusion: the first measurements of excess hydrogen at Mercury's north pole with MESSENGER's Neutron Spectrometer, the first measurements of the reflectance of Mercury's polar deposits at near-infrared wavelengths with the Mercury ... read more

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Arianespace ready for next Soyuz and Ariane missions A payload fairing not only performs the important role of protecting a launcher's passengers during ascent, it also provides an opportunity to put a spotlight on the spacecraft lofted during the mis ... more		The Biggest Breakthrough In Propulsion Since The Jet Engine Reaction Engines can announce the biggest breakthrough in aerospace propulsion technology since the invention of the jet engine. Critical tests have been successfully completed on the key technology ... more		Asteroid dust from space To the naked eye there is nothing to see, and yet the small transparent container holds something never observed before. For the first time, scientists are studying asteroid dust collected by a spac ... more
				Opportunity Gets To Work On Interesting Rock Opportunity, after completing the local area survey around the location called "Matijevic Hill" (named in honor of Jake Matijevic) at the inboard edge of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour Crater, ha ... more		Japan Schedules Radar Satellite Launch Japanese national space agency JAXA and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. would launch an H-2A rocket with a radar intelligence satellite early next year, the Kyodo news agency reported on Tuesday. ... more

A Sky Full of Planets Think back to the last time you saw the Milky Way-that faint stripe of stars that thickens and brightens as you get farther from city lights. At least 200 billion stars fill the Milky Way, our galax ... more		Halfway Between Uranus and Neptune, New Horizons Cruises On Today the Pluto-bound New Horizons spacecraft passed the halfway point between the orbits of Uranus and Neptune, zooming past another milepost on its historic trek to the planetary frontier. New Hor ... more		Outside View: Win wars not battles US summit will help 'reduce suspicion': China media US, Oman talk $2.1 bln defense deal Japan mulls resuming talks with N. Korea: official Pakistan's Imran Khan leaves hospital after fall N. Korea sends military leader as 'special envoy' to China Chinese PM pledges stronger partnership with Pakistan		Spacewalks on agenda for new space crew The new crew for the International Space Station, preparing for their launch in December, will perform two spacewalks during their stay, Russian officials say. ... more
				Large ice deposits found on planet nearest the sun Scientists Thursday announced new evidence that Mercury, the planet orbiting nearest the Sun, hosts massive caches of ice and revealed new information on how water reached our solar system's inner planets. ... more		South Korean rocket launch suspended South Korean space officials suspended a crucial rocket launch Thursday, after a technical problem halted the countdown just 17 minutes before the scheduled blast-off. ... more

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Space Station to reposition for science The International Space Station will reposition itself for a better view of the sun, the first-ever attitude change for scientific reasons alone, officials say. ... more		Do missing Jupiters mean massive comet belts? Using ESA's Herschel space observatory, astronomers have discovered vast belts of comets surrounding two nearby planetary systems known to host nothing larger than Earth-to-Neptune-mass worlds. The ... more		Study reveals scientific consensus on anthropogenic climate change Why we need to put the fish back into fisheries Heat-related deaths in Manhattan projected to rise LLNL scientist finds topography of Eastern Seaboard muddles ancient sea level changes Climate change may have little impact on tropical lizards New discovery of ancient diet shatters conventional ideas of how agriculture emerged Parasitic wasps use calcium pump to block fruit fly immunity		Nine Radar Images of Asteroid 2007 PA8 A collage shows nine radar images of near-Earth asteroid 2007 PA8 that were obtained between Oct. 31 and Nov. 13, 2012, with data collected by NASA's 230-foot-wide (70-meter) Deep Space Network ante ... more
				S. Korea readies new bid to join global space club South Korea held a final dress rehearsal Wednesday for its third attempt to send a satellite into orbit and join an elite space club that includes Asian powers China, Japan and India. ... more		Dust Grains Highlight the Path to Planet Formation An international team of researchers from the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) and the Japanese universities of Kobe, Hyogo, and Saitama used the Subaru Telescope to capture a clear ... more

South Korean rocket launch suspended

EchoStar and Arianespace sign new satellite launch services contract

Japan Schedules Radar Satellite Launch

Regional Dust Storm Dissipating

Opportunity Gets To Work On Interesting Rock

One Year After Launch, Curiosity Rover Busy on Mars

China's Chang'e-3 to land on moon next year

Moon crater yields impact clues

Study: Moon basin formed by giant impact

Halfway Between Uranus and Neptune, New Horizons Cruises On

Dwarf planet Makemake lacks atmosphere

Keck Observations Bring Weather Of Uranus Into Sharp Focus

	Why Study Plants in Space? Why is NASA conducting plant research aboard the International Space Station? Because during future long-duration missions, life in space may depend on it. The ability of plants to provide a source ... more		Regional Dust Storm Dissipating A regional dust storm on Mars, tracked from orbit since Nov. 10, appears to be abating rather than going global. "During the past week, the regional storm weakened and contracted significantly ... more		Low-mass planets make good neighbours for debris discs Astronomers using ESA's Herschel Space Observatory have detected massive debris discs around 61 Virginis and Gliese 581, two nearby stars that are known to host super-Earth planets. The study ... more		Ariane 5 joins Soyuz in mission preparations at the Spaceport The Spaceport is once again handling parallel campaigns with two different members of the Arianespace launcher family, as a heavy-lift Ariane 5 has moved to the Final Assembly Building to be readied ... more

Frigid Heat: How Ice can Menace a Hot Engine

Kinks and curves at the nanoscale

Computational tool translates complex data into simplified 2-dimensional images

Engineered microbes grow in the dark

Iron-platinum alloys could be new-generation hard drives

Principles of locomotion in confined spaces could help robot teams work underground

Robots learn to take a proper handoff by following digitized human examples

Who will challenge Dragon? Dragon spaceship postponed until March		Soyuz ready for Friday launch of Pleiades 1B at Kourou		Sea Launch Postpones Satellite Launch Until Dec. 3		NASA, Roscosmos Assign Veteran Crew to Yearlong Space Station Mission		Russia Replaces Proton-M Rocket for Dec 28 Launch
Private company to launch Sri Lanka's first satellite		S.Korean Rocket Set to Lift Off Thursday		EchoStar and Arianespace sign new satellite launch services contract		Graphite experiment shines new light laser-driven fusion		It's a bird, it's a plane, it's... the Space Station

One Year After Launch, Curiosity Rover Busy on Mars

Model sheds light on the chemistry that sparked the origin of life

Curious About Life: Interview with Roger Summons

Life on Mars: NASA says 'hold on a minute!'

Study of risks to humankind proposed

Cassini Finds a Video Gamers' Paradise at Saturn

Astronauts bring back new life

Magnesium oxide: From Earth to super-Earth

Researchers test novel power system for space travel

Matijevic Hill Survey Complete And Rover Passes 22 Miles Of Driving!

Who's Killing the Space Program?

Fostering Curiosity: Mars Express relays rocky images

NASA monitors massive dust storm on Mars

Failure Of India's Big Rocket Project Is Symbolic Of Deep Structural Problems

Intrigue from Mars, or Grotzinger's silence

Russian Briz-M puts US satellite into orbit

Fly me to the universe

Secret mini-shuttle launch delayed

Robotic Fish Research Swims into New Ethorobotics Waters

Supersonic Decelerator Project 'On Track' for Success

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