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Giant Super-Earths Made Of Diamond Are PossibleSan Francisco CA (SPX) Dec 07, 2011 A planet made of diamonds may sound lovely, but you wouldn't want to live there. A new study suggests that some stars in the Milky Way could harbor "carbon super-Earths" - giant terrestrial planets that contain up to 50 percent diamond. But if they exist, those planets are likely devoid of life as we know it. The finding comes from a laboratory experiment at Ohio State University, where researchers recreated the temperatures and pressures of Earth's lower mantle to study how diamonds form there. ... read more |
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  SAM I Am The Mars Science Laboratory is on its way to the red planet, and its rover Curiosity should touch down next summer. If the mission hits paydirt and comes across organic material, then one instrument ... more | .. |
  Astrium takes a major step forward in the development of Ariane 5 ME Astrium, the European space industry leader, has received confirmation from the European Space Agency (ESA) following its Preliminary Design Review (PDR) that the Ariane 5 Midlife Evolution launcher ... more | .. |
  Leicester set to fly high in India's first-ever national astronomy mission Highly specialised equipment constructed at the University of Leicester for India's first national astronomy satellite- Astrosat - is to be handed over to a delegation from India in December. ... more | .. |
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  What's That Sparkle in Cassini's Eye? The moon Enceladus, one of the jewels of the Saturn system, sparkles peculiarly bright in new images obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The images of the moon, the first ever taken of Ence ... more | .. |
  Orion Continues to Make a Splash Testing continues at NASA Langley Research Center as the 18,000-pound (8,164.6 kg) Orion test article took its seventh splash into the Hydro Impact Basin Dec. 1. Orion, NASA's next deep space ... more | .. |
 First J-2X Combustion Stability Test a Success NASA conducted a key stability test firing of the J-2X rocket engine Dec. 1, marking another step forward in development of the upper-stage engine that will carry humans farther into space than ever ... more | .. |
  FLEX-ible Insight Into Flame Behavior Whether free-burning or smoldering, uncontrolled fire can threaten life and destroy property. On Earth, a little water, maybe some chemicals, and the fire is smothered. In space, where there is no u ... more |
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 Gaia sunshield deployment test Deployment testing of the Gaia Flight Model Deployable Sunshield Assembly has been successfully completed in preparation for the spacecraft mechanical test campaign. Gaia will perform micro-ar ... more | .. |
 Astronaut TJ Creamer Learns Space Station Science From the Ground Up He traveled 65,200,000 miles around the planet while living aboard the International Space Station for 161 days, but a new journey has led astronaut TJ Creamer to the Marshall Space Flight Center in ... more | .. |
 Team of Astronomer's Finds 18 New Planets Discoveries of new planets just keep coming and coming. Take, for instance, the 18 recently found by a team of astronomers led by scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). ... more | .. |
 Fregat upper stage and Pleiades 1 ready for next Soyuz Kourou launch The primary payload for Arianespace's second Soyuz flight from French Guiana is now undergoing fueling, while the upper stage that will orbit this Earth observation satellite and five co-passengers ... more |
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 Astronomers Find Goldilocks Planet and Others This morning NASA announced the discovery of the first planet located in the "habitable zone" around a Sun-like star - the "just-right" orbit that's not too hot, nor too cold for water to exist in l ... more | .. |
 New Planet Kepler-21b discovery a partnership of both space and ground-based observations The NASA Kepler Mission is designed to survey a portion of our region of the Milky Way Galaxy to discover Earth-size planets in or near the "habitable zone," the region in a planetary system where l ... more | .. |
  Medical Robotics Helps Satellite Surgery Project Johns Hopkins engineers, recognized as experts in medical robotics, have turned their attention skyward to help NASA with a space dilemma: How can the agency fix valuable satellites that are breakin ... more | .. |
 The Habitable Exoplanets Catalog, a new online database of habitable worlds Scientists are now starting to identify potential habitable exoplanets after nearly twenty years of the detection of the first planets around other stars. Over 700 exoplanets have been detected and ... more |
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 Kepler Mission Confirms Its First Planet in Habitable Zone of Sun-like Star NASA's Kepler mission has confirmed its first planet in the "habitable zone," the region where liquid water could exist on a planet's surface. Kepler also has discovered more than 1,000 new planet c ... more | .. |
  Voyager Hits New Region at Solar System Edge NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has entered a new region between our solar system and interstellar space. Data obtained from Voyager over the last year reveal this new region to be a kind of cosmic purg ... more | .. |
 NASA confirms 'super-Earth' that could hold life In another step toward finding Earth-like planets that may hold life, NASA said Monday the Kepler space telescope has confirmed its first-ever planet in a habitable zone outside our solar system. ... more | .. |
 Earth-like planets feature in new survey Tired of life on Earth? There may be other options, according to a catalog released on Monday of planets and moons that could have the right conditions to support life, planetary scientists said. ... more |
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  Deep Impact Spacecraft Eyes the Future NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft completed a 140-second firing of its onboard rocket motors on Thursday, Nov. 24. The rocket burn was performed to keep the venerable comet hunter's options open for yet ... more | .. |
 Mountains and Buried Ice on Mars New images from Mars Express show the Phlegra Montes mountain range, in a region where radar probing indicates large volumes of water ice are hiding below. This could be a source of water for future ... more | .. |
  New Horizons Becomes Closest Spacecraft to Approach Pluto NASA's New Horizons mission reached a special milestone this past week on its way to reconnoiter the Pluto system, coming closer to Pluto than any other spacecraft. It's taken New Horizons 2,1 ... more | .. |
  First Crew for Tiangong The successful first docking mission to China's Tiangong 1 space laboratory has cleared the path for greater things to come. The flight of the uncrewed Shenzhou 8 spacecraft demonstrated two success ... more |
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 Dawn Soars Over Asteroid Vesta in 3D Glide over the giant asteroid Vesta with NASA's Dawn spacecraft in a new 3-D video. Dawn has been orbiting Vesta since July 15, obtaining high-resolution images of its bumpy, cratered surface and ma ... more | .. |
 Two UT Scientists Search for Potential Habitats for Life on Mars Two University of Tennessee, Knoxville, professors are searching for potential habitats for life on Mars. Linda Kah and Jeffrey Moersch, associate professors of earth and planetary sciences, are an ... more | .. |
 MSL Course Excellent, Adjustment Postponed Excellent launch precision for NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission has forestalled the need for an early trajectory correction maneuver, now not required for a month or more. That first of ... more | .. |
  ONR Helps Undersea Robots Get the Big Picture Scientists have successfully transitioned fundamental research in autonomy to undersea gliders, demonstrating in recent sea tests how the new software, sponsored by the Office of Naval Research (ONR ... more |
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 Mars Mission Hoping To Satisfy Curiosity The University of Leicester is to play a key role in NASA's $2.5 billion mission to Mars. Dr. John Bridges of the University's Space Research Centre leads a team from the University of Leicester, th ... more | .. |
 Ugandan works on space project from mother's backyard Chris Nsamba says that at one time or another every successful scientist has been called a madman, and some think he is crazy about working to send the first Ugandan into space - from the backyard of his mother's home. ... more | .. |
 China post office offers letters from space China's post office is hoping to boost business by allowing customers to send letters postmarked from space. ... more | .. |
 ATK Awarded $20 Million UltraFlex Solar Array Contract from Orbital ATK was awarded a $20 million contract by Orbital Sciences to provide its UltraFlex solar arrays to power Orbital's enhanced Cygnus cargo logistics space vehicle, which is being utilized under NASA' ... more |
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