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![]() Grenoble, France (SPX) Feb 21, 2012 Contrary to Earth, our Moon has no active volcanoes, and the traces of its past volcanic activity date from billions of years ago. This is surprising, because recent Moonquake data suggest that there is plenty of liquid magma deep within the Moon because part of the rocks residing there are thought to be molten. Scientists have now identified a likely reason for this peaceful surface life: the hot, molten rock in the Moon's deep interior could be so dense that it is simply too heavy to rise to the ... read more |
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![]() Mars rocks indicate relatively recent quakes, volcanism, on Red Planet Images of a martian landscape offer evidence that the Red Planet's surface not only can shake like the surface of Earth, but has done so relatively recently. If marsquakes do indeed take place, said ... more | .. |
![]() NASA Spacecraft Reveals Recent Geological Activity on the Moon New images from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft show the moon's crust is being stretched, forming minute valleys in a few small areas on the lunar surface. Scientists propose th ... more | .. |
![]() Scattered Light Could Reveal Alien Atmospheres The light scattered off distant worlds could help reveal details about their atmospheres that no other method could uncover, scientists find. Nearly all the information astronomers have of the atmos ... more | .. | ||
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![]() Back to the Moon A Modern Redux The moon is again in the focus of world space exploration. Recently water was discovered on the moon - something scientists did not expect to find. This could lead to the establishment of lunar base ... more | .. |
![]() Rock Studies Continue for Opportunity Opportunity is positioned on the north end of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour Crater with an approximate 15-degree northerly tilt for favorable solar energy production. While positioned for ... more | .. |
![]() ASU professor uses Star Trek themes to communicate science Before firing up the dilithium crystals in your warp drive, you should know what you are getting into, said Lawrence Krauss, ASU Foundation Professor at Arizona State University. When applied to the ... more | .. |
![]() Launch of China's manned spacecraft Shenzhou-9 scheduled China will launch its manned Shenzhou-9 spacecraft between June and August this year, as well as conduct a space rendezvous and docking mission with the orbiting Tiangong-1 space lab module, a spoke ... more |
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![]() Glenn: I don't think of myself as a hero John Glenn, feted in his home state of Ohio Monday on the 50th anniversary of being the first American to orbit Earth, says he doesn't consider himself a hero. ... more | .. |
![]() 2.5 million pound investment will grow UK space technology industry Twenty-two British companies are to share 2.5 million pound of government support to enable them to develop commercial products and services using space technology or space-derived data. The g ... more | .. |
![]() Fifth ATV named after Georges Lemaitre ESA's Automated Transfer Vehicles (ATVs) are an essential contribution by Europe to running the International Space Station. Naming the fifth after Belgian scientist Georges Lemaitre continues the t ... more | .. |
![]() Rocket to be launched from Poker Flat Research Range Scientists are now at Poker Flat Research Range north of Fairbanks waiting for acceptable conditions for the launch of a National Aeronautics and Space Administration sounding rocket. The rock ... more |
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![]() UA Huntsville scientific team helping Japanese space program launch safely A team of scientists from The University of Alabama in Huntsville's Earth System Science Center is working with the Japanese space agency to develop new rules to protect spacecraft from lightning. ... more | .. |
![]() Future of Space Transportation The Air Force Space Command commander spoke to the critical aspects of space launch, new technologies in launch operations and the long range vision for the launch mission during his speech at the 1 ... more | .. |
![]() NuSTAR Mated to its Rocket NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) is being mated, or attached, to its Pegasus XL rocket at the Vandenberg Air Force Base in central California. The mission's launch is now ... more | .. |
![]() 50th anniversary of first US space flight is bittersweet The United States marks the 50th anniversary Monday of the first flight of an American into orbit. But the historic landmark is bittersweet: the first nation to land people on the Moon now depends on Russia for its manned space flights. ... more |
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![]() Space station panel installation delayed Two Russian cosmonauts will have to install International Space Station debris panels another day after their spacewalk took longer than expected, NASA said. ... more | .. |
![]() Shenzhou 9 To Carry 3 Astronauts To Tiangong-1 Space Station Chinese space officials said Friday that three astronauts will fly to Tiangong 1 aboard Shenzhou 9. This reverses previous published state media reports that the Shenzhou 9 mission would be unmanned. ... more | .. |
![]() The quest for sugars involved in origin of life Sugars give rise to enormous biochemical interest given the importance and diversity of the functions they carry out: they act as an energy storage system and serve as fuel for a number of biologica ... more | .. |
![]() Microbial oasis discovered beneath the Atacama Desert Two metres below the surface of the Atacama Desert there is an 'oasis' of microorganisms. Researchers from the Center of Astrobiology (Spain) and the Catholic University of the North in Chile have f ... more |
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![]() Stark warning emerges from science summit A stark theme emerged from an annual scientific get-together in Vancouver: the world must be helped to believe in science again or it could be too late to save our planet. ... more | .. |
![]() China to launch spacecraft in June: report China will launch another spacecraft in June to dock with its Tiangong-1 space lab, and one more spaceship next year to conduct a more demanding manual docking, according to sources with the China A ... more | .. |
![]() NASA Seeks Space Launch System Advanced Booster Risk Reduction Solutions NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., has issued a NASA Research Announcement for the Space Launch System (SLS) Advanced Booster risk-reduction effort. NASA is looking for a ... more | .. |
![]() NASA Performs First J-2X Powerpack Test of the Year Engineers at NASA's Stennis Space Center conducted an initial test of the J-2X engine powerpack Feb. 15, kicking off a series of key tests in development of the rocket engine that will carry humans ... more |
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![]() ISS may become Martian flight simulator Russia's Roscosmos space agency has suggested expanding the length of future expeditions to the International Space Station from the current six months to a year and even longer to provide for the n ... more | .. |
![]() Honeycombs and Hexacopters Help Tell Story of Mars In a rough-and-tumble wonderland of plunging canyons and towering buttes, some of the still-raw bluffs are lined with soaring, six-sided stone columns so orderly and trim, they could almost pass as ... more | .. |
![]() A robot sketches portraits An industrial robot as artist? From March 6-10, 2012, researchers will be presenting what may at first seem to be a contradiction at CeBIT in Hanover, Germany. There, interested visitors can view th ... more | .. |
![]() In new mass-production technique, robotic insects spring to life A new technique inspired by elegant pop-up books and origami will soon allow clones of robotic insects to be mass-produced by the sheet. Devised by engineers at Harvard, the ingenious layering and f ... more |
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![]() New 'soft' motor made from artificial muscles "Perhaps the earliest public demonstration of an electric motor," writes a team of researchers from the University of Auckland in New Zealand, "involved the automatic rotation of a turkey on a spit ... more | .. |
![]() 'Duet of 1' possible with hand-controlled voice synthesizer New technology at the University of British Columbia makes it possible for a person to speak or sing just by using their hands to control a speech synthesizer. UBC researcher Sidney Fels says the ge ... more | .. |
![]() Human tests for first wirelessly controlled drug delivery chip About 15 years ago, MIT professors Robert Langer and Michael Cima had the idea to develop a programmable, wirelessly controlled microchip that would deliver drugs after implantation in a patient's b ... more | .. |
![]() New system allows robots to continuously map their environment Robots could one day navigate through constantly changing surroundings with virtually no input from humans, thanks to a system that allows them to build and continuously update a three-dimensional m ... more |
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