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Caltech Team Finds Evidence Of Water In Moon MineralsPasadena CA (SPX) Jul 23, 2010 That dry, dusty moon overhead? Seems it isn't quite as dry as it's long been thought to be. Although you won't find oceans, lakes, or even a shallow puddle on its surface, a team of geologists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), working with colleagues at the University of Tennessee, has found structurally bound hydroxyl groups (i.e., water) in a mineral in a lunar rock returned to Earth by the Apollo program. Their findings are detailed in this week's issue of the journal Nature. ... read more |
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Pasadena CA (SPX) Jul 22, 2010NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter put itself into a safe standby mode on Wednesday, July 14, and the team operating the spacecraft has begun implementing careful steps designed to resume Odyssey's science and relay operations this week. Engineers have diagnosed the cause of the safe-mode entry as the spacecraft's proper response to unexpected performance by an electronic encoder. That encoder co ... more  
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Jul 22, 2010Aerospace engineers at NASA's Ames Research Center are conducting a series of wind tunnel tests to develop technology for future human space exploration. Using a six percent scale Orion model, featuring complex moving parts, engineers are simulating various launch abort conditions the spacecraft might encounter during ascent to characterize the effects of launch abort and control motor plu ... more  
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Jul 21, 2010One of the more counterintuitive aspects of the PLRP is the participation of astronauts in the project. NASA astronaut Mike Gernhardt has been a DeepWorker pilot at Pavilion Lake since 2008; this year he was joined by NASA astronaut Stan Love and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Chris Hadfield, both here for the first time. Over the past few days I spent some time with Love and Hadfield, wa ... more |
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Scientist: SETI should switch 'channels'Irvine, Calif. (UPI) Jul 21, 2010 The SETI Institute, listening to the cosmos for signs of signals from alien civilizations, may be monitoring the wrong "channels," a U.S. astrophysicist says. Gregory Benford of the University of California, Irvine, says such a civilization wanting to announce it presence would transmit "cost-optimized" narrowly focused signals, not the continuous omni-directional signals the SETI program has been scanning for, a university release said Wednesday. "This approach is more like Twitter and ... read more |
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