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Piecing together a global colour map of Saturn's largest moonNantes, France (SPX) Oct 07, 2011 An international team led by the University of Nantes has pieced together images gathered over six years by the Cassini mission to create a global mosaic of the surface of Titan. The global maps and animations of Saturn's largest moon are being presented by Stephane Le Mouelic at the EPSC-DPS Joint Meeting 2011 in Nantes, France on Tuesday 4th October. The team has compiled all the infrared images acquired by the Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (VIMS) during Cassini's first seventy flybys ... read more |
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  Tracing the Canals of Mars In a remarkable discovery, images taken over the past five years by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which circles Mars to ph ... more | .. |
  UT Scientist Searches for Moons Around Asteroids Most people know that some planets have moons but would be surprised to know that some asteroids do, too. According to Joshua Emery, assistant professor of earth and planetary sciences at the Univer ... more | .. |
  A Race To Space Waste The Space race has managed a significant achievement. In 50 years, humanity has sent tons of waste from Earth to space. "The ocean above" as Victor Hugo called it is a victim of industrial pollution ... more | .. |
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  China's first space lab module in good condition China's first space lab module were in good condition and all tests went on "smoothly" during the past week, according to a statement issued by the country's space project authorities Thursday. ... more | .. |
  Cape Canaveral continues cleanup efforts Air Force officials have recently implemented changes to the force's environmental cleanup program to focus on cleaning up more sites more quickly. The environmental management team here is using cu ... more | .. |
  Astronomers Find Elusive Planets in Decade-Old Hubble Data In a painstaking re-analysis of Hubble Space Telescope images from 1998, astronomers have found visual evidence for two extrasolar planets that went undetected back then. Finding these hidden ... more | .. |
  NASA's Moon Twins Going Their Own Way NASA's Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL)-B spacecraft successfully executed its first flight path correction maneuver Wednesday, Oct. 5. The rocket burn helped refine the spacecraft's ... more |
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 US telecoms satellite reaches designated orbit The U.S. Intelsat 18 telecommunications satellite was put into orbit on Thursday, a spokesman for Russian space agency Roscosmos said. "The separation took place according to the schedule. The ... more | .. |
 Mars Science Laboratory Meets its Match in Florida In preparation for launch later this year, the "back shell powered descent vehicle" configuration containing NASA's Mars Science Laboratory rover, Curiosity, has been placed on the spacecraft's heat ... more | .. |
  Shot US lawmaker honors astronaut husband US lawmaker Gabrielle Giffords, who was shot in the head earlier this year, honored her NASA astronaut husband Mark Kelly Thursday, at his White House naval retirement ceremony. ... more | .. |
 Dawn at Vesta: Massive mountains, rough surface, and old-young dichotomy in hemispheres NASA's Dawn mission, which has been orbiting Vesta since mid-July, has revealed that the asteroid's southern hemisphere boasts one of the largest mountains in the Solar System. Other results show th ... more |
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 University of Texas-led Team Discovers Unusual Multi-Planet System with NASA's Kepler Spacecraft A team of researchers led by Bill Cochran of The University of Texas at Austin has used NASA's Kepler spacecraft to discover an unusual multiple-planet system containing a super-Earth and two Neptun ... more | .. |
  MESSENGER Team Presents New Mercury Findings at Planetary Conference MESSENGER scientists on Wednesday highlighted the latest results on Mercury from MESSENGER observations obtained during the first six months (the first Mercury solar day) in orbit. The findings were ... more | .. |
  Spinning hourglass object may be the first of many to be discovered in the Kuiper belt The bizarre, hourglass-shaped Kuiper belt object 2001QG298 spins round like a propeller as it orbits the Sun, according to an astronomer from Queens University Belfast. The discovery that the ... more | .. |
 AAS Society Members Win 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics Three members of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) have been named recipients of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has announced that half of the SEK 10 mi ... more |
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AI tool accelerates SAR image analysis with automated object detection
Fossil energy 'significant' driver of climate-fuelled heatwaves: study
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 EDRS: an independent data-relay system for Europe becoming reality A public-private partnership contract signed with Astrium means that ESA is moving ahead with an independent, European satellite system that will speed up the transmission of large quantities of dat ... more | .. |
 SSTL redefines the cost of radar imaging with NovaSAR-S Small satellite manufacturer Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) has announced completion of the development phase of its new low-cost Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite system. Called ... more | .. |
 NASA Invites Students to Name Moon-Bound Spacecraft NASA has a class assignment for U.S. students: help the agency give the twin spacecraft headed to orbit around the moon new names. The naming contest is open to students in kindergarten throug ... more | .. |
 NASA Mars Rovers Win Popular Mechanics 'Breakthrough' Award More than seven years after completing their three-month prime missions on opposite sides of Mars, NASA rovers Spirit and Opportunity have been selected for lifetime achievement award honors as part ... more |
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 Saturn's Geyser Moon Enceladus Shows off for NASA's Cassini NASA's Cassini spacecraft successfully completed its Oct. 1 flyby of Saturn's moon Enceladus and its jets of water vapor and ice. At its closest approach, the spacecraft flew approximately 62 miles ... more | .. |
 Russia launches US telecoms satellite into orbit Russian successfully launched a US Intelsat satellite into space late Wednesday, aboard a Zenit carrier rocket from the Baikonur space centre in Kazakhstan, a Russian space agency official said. ... more | .. |
U.S. sues astronaut over space camera A federal judge in Florida has refused Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell's request to dismiss a lawsuit that seeks the return of a space camera. ... more | .. |
 Opportunity Studies Rock Interior Opportunity is still positioned at the target called "Chester Lake" at Cape York on the rim of Endeavour crater. The rover continues with the in-situ (contact) science investigation of the surface r ... more |
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New fabrication method expands material options for quantum devices
Nuclearn secures $10.5 million to expand AI platform for nuclear operations
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 Extreme Space Weather at Mercury Blasts the Planet's Poles The solar wind sandblasts the surface of planet Mercury at its poles, according to new data from a University of Michigan instrument on board NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft. The sodium and oxygen ... more | .. |
 The Strange Attraction of Gale Crater Curiosity is about to go to Mars. The car-sized rover, also known as the Mars Science Lab, is scheduled for launch in late November or early December 2011 from the Kennedy Space Center. After an eig ... more | .. |
 Enceladus Weather Includes Snow Flurries Global and high resolution mapping of Enceladus confirms that the weather forecast for Saturn's unique icy moon is set for ongoing snow flurries. The superfine ice crystals that coat Enceladus's sur ... more | .. |
 First Vega starts journey to Europe's Spaceport The first elements of Europe's new Vega small launcher left Italy last Thursday to begin their long journey to Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana, marking the final step towards its inaugural fligh ... more |
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 Arianespace to launch Mexican satellite Mexsat 3 Mexican government's communications and transport administration, Secretara de Comunicaciones y Transportes, has awarded a contract to Arianespace to launch the country's new Mexsat 3 telecommunicat ... more | .. |
Takeoff For Tiangong The launch of China's Tiangong 1 space laboratory has finally taken place. Apart from marking the debut of Tiangong as an operational spacecraft, it's worth considering what else we can already lear ... more | .. |
 NASA's Next Generation Spacecraft Brought to Life by a New Generation of Students Recent Cleveland State University graduates Adina Feigenbaum and Nick Matej were tapped by NASA's Glenn Research Center to design an exciting new look into the Orion spacecraft, the agency's deep sp ... more | .. |
 Russia's Soyuz-2.1B carrier rocket orbits Glonass satellite Russia's Soyuz-2.1B carrier rocket has put into orbit a Glonass-M navigation satellite, Space Forces spokesman Colonel Alexei Zolotukhin said on Monday. He said the satellite separated from th ... more |
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