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Doubt Cast On Existence Of Habitable Alien WorldMoffett Field CA (SPX) Oct 14, 2010 Last month, astronomers announced the discovery of the first potentially habitable extrasolar planet. But this week at an International Astronomical Union meeting, doubts were raised about the existence of this exciting new planet said to be orbiting the star Gliese 581. Called 'Gliese 581 g,' the planet was determined to be about 3 times the mass of Earth, meaning it was a rocky world, not a gas giant like Jupiter. Rocky extrasolar planets have been found before, but the unique trait about this p ... read more |
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Boulder CO (SPX) Oct 13, 2010The Venetia Burney Student Dust Counter, flying aboard NASA's New Horizons mission to Pluto, now holds the record for the most distant working dust detector ever to travel through space. On October 10, the "SDC" surpassed the previous record when it flew beyond 18 astronomical units - one unit is the distance between the Sun and the Earth - or 1.67 billion miles, past the orbit of Uranus. ... more  
Washington (AFP) Oct 12, 2010NASA chief Charles Bolden will make an official visit to China October 16-21, a spokesman for the US space agency said Tuesday. The visit was first announced in November 2009 during a visit to China by President Barack Obama but no dates had been set until now, NASA spokesman Michael Cabbage said. He provided no agenda for the visit. Representative John Culberson, a Republican from Texas ... more 
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Oct 13, 2010There are few places on Mars lower than this. The floor of Melas Chasma sinks nine kilometres below the surrounding plains. New images from the German Aerospace Centre (Deutsche Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) operated High Resolution Stereo Camera on ESA's Mars Express orbiter highlight the complex history of this enormous martian canyon. Melas Chasma is part of the huge Valles Mari ... more |
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NASA Mission To Asteroid Gets Help From HubblePasadena CA (JPL) Oct 11, 2010 NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured images of the large asteroid Vesta that will help refine plans for the Dawn spacecraft's rendezvous with Vesta in July 2011. Scientists have constructed a video from the images that will help improve pointing instructions for Dawn as it is placed in a polar orbit around Vesta. Analyses of Hubble images revealed a pole orientation, or tilt, of approximately four degrees more to the asteroid's east than scientists previously thought. This means the ch ... read more |
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