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Huygens Conference Marks Fifth Anniversary Of Titan LandingParis, France (ESA) Jan 11, 2010 On 14 January 2005 the European Space Agency's Huygens probe separated from the Cassini spacecraft and landed on Saturn's moon Titan. The touchdown on the surface of Titan marked the first, and so far only, landing of a man-made probe in the outer Solar System. To mark the fifth anniversary of this remarkable event, scientists will gather from 13-15 January at the CosmoCaixa science museum in Barcelona, Spain, to review the key scientific and engineering achievements of Huygens, to evaluate the current understanding of Titan, and to consider future Titan exploration missions. ... read more |
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New Dehli, India (SPX) Jan 11, 2010The last 50 years of space have been fantastic while the next 50 years will be spectacular," remarked Prof. U R Rao, former chairman ISRO, delivering his lecture on "Challenges in Space" in the 97th Indian Science Congress. The space age began with the launch of Sputnik-I, 52 years ago from the former Soviet Union. Since then, plenty of satellites have been launched. The Cosmic Backg ... more  
Pasadena CA (SPX) Jan 11, 2010Sol 2131-2136: Spirit remains embedded at the location called "Troy" on the west side of Home Plate. Attempts to extricate Spirit have been complicated by the lack of functionality in both the right-rear and right-front wheels. On Sol 2132 (Jan. 1, 2010), the left-front, left-rear, and right-rear wheels were steered 60 degrees toe-in to try and cause material in front of the wheels to coll ... more  
Barcelona, Spain (SPX) Jan 11, 2010A research published in Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences rejects the theory that the origin of life stems from a system of self-catalytic molecules capable of experiencing Darwinian evolution without the need of RNA or DNA and their replication. The research, which was carried out with the participation of Mauro Santos, researcher of the Department of Genetics and Microbiology ... more |
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London, UK (PTI) Jan 08, 2010Reports indicate that the Indian media has branded its astronauts as "vyomanauts", a word derived from the Sanskrit language. According to a report in New Scientist, the tongue-twisting term comes from the Sanskrit for sky or space - that is - 'vyoma'. The closest Sanskrit word to astronaut would have been vyomagami, for something that passes in the sky. The other word for an ... more  
Paris, France (ESA) Jan 08, 2010On 10th December 1999, e2v Charge Coupled Device (CCD) imaging sensors were launched into space onboard Ariane 5 on the European Space Agency's (ESA) x-ray Multi-Mirror Mission (XMM-Newton) X-ray observatory satellite. In its decade of operation the Space telescope has supplied masses of new data which has widened our knowledge of the universe. The satellite itself carries six instruments ... more  
Kamuela HI (SPX) Jan 08, 2010Planet hunters using Keck Observatory have detected an extrasolar planet that is only four times the mass of Earth. The planet is the second smallest exoplanet ever discovered and adds to astronomers' growing cadre of low-mass planets called super-Earths. "This is quite a remarkable discovery," said astronomer Andrew Howard of the University of California at Berkeley, or UCB. "It shows tha ... more |
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