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Dusty, Acidic Glaciers Could Explain Layered Deposits on MarsHouston TX (SPX) Mar 30, 2012 Researchers from the Planetary Science Institute (PSI) and NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC) have proposed a new hypothesis to explain a class of enigmatic geologic features on Mars that have puzzled scientists for decades. The new results, published recently in the journal Geology, suggest that large sedimentary deposits in the Valles Marineris termed Interior Layered Deposits (ILDs) may have formed in a cold, dry ancient Martian climate as the remnants of massive dust-rich glaciers that may have o ... read more |
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  Soyuz return from ISS set for April 27 Russia's space agency Roscosmos says the Soyuz TMA-22 manned spacecraft from the International Space Station will return to Earth April 27. ... more | .. |
  SpaceX names safety panel Commercial space company SpaceX says an independent panel of former NASA astronauts and officials will oversee its efforts to develop safe human spaceflight. ... more | .. |
 Slight Drop Of Left-Front Wheel 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. Radio Doppler trackin ... more | .. |
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 Swiss pioneer motor aimed at slashing satellite launch costs Swiss researchers said Thursday they have built a mini-motor which they claim could slash the costs of satellite launches by 10 times, ushering in "a new era of low-cost space exploration." ... more | .. |
  Enceladus, Janus and Dione Rev 163 Raw Preview These raw, unprocessed images of Saturn's moons Enceladus, Janus and Dione were taken on March 27 and 28, 2012, by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Cassini passed Enceladus first on March 27, coming ... more | .. |
  NASA Space Network to Begin New Design Phase For Ground Segment The Space Network Ground Segment Sustainment effort successfully completed its Key Decision Point - B review at NASA allowing the project to proceed into Phase B of its lifecycle, the Mission Defini ... more | .. |
  Robotic Refueling Mission: Fueling up in Space Satellites are designed to withstand a variety of challenges to ensure that the sensitive electronics on board can survive the effects of launch and perform for years in the harsh conditions of spac ... more |
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  Astrium completes in-orbit delivery of the SSOT satellite system Astrium's teams have successfully completed the in-orbit delivery of the SSOT satellite system, which launched from the European spaceport in French Guiana on 16 December 2011. In accepting de ... more | .. |
 ATREX Mission Launched from Wallops NASA successfully launched five suborbital sounding rockets this morning from its Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia as part of a study of the upper level jet stream. The first rocket was launched ... more | .. |
 Is it Snowing Microbes on Enceladus? There's a tiny moon orbiting beyond Saturn's rings that's full of promise, and maybe - just maybe - microbes. In a series of tantalizingly close flybys to the moon, named "Enceladus," NASA's C ... more | .. |
  Flying Formation - Around the Moon at 3,600 MPH The act of two or more aircraft flying together in a disciplined, synchronized manner is one of the cornerstones of military aviation, as well as just about any organized air show. But as amaz ... more |
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 'Mount Sharp' On Mars Links Geology's Past and Future One particular mountain on Mars, bigger than Colorado's grandest, has been beckoning would-be explorers since it was first sighted from orbit in the 1970s. Scientists have ideas about how it took sh ... more | .. |
  Billions of Habitable Zone Rocky Planets Could be Orbiting Red Dwarf Stars A new result from ESO's HARPS planet finder shows that rocky planets not much bigger than Earth are very common in the habitable zones around faint red stars. The international team estimates ... more | .. |
 Aerojet Propulsion Helps Deliver Astronaut Care Packages Aerojet, reports that its engines will be providing the main propulsion for Europe's Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) as it maneuvers for a scheduled docking with the International Space Station (IS ... more | .. |
 Leading Government Space Programs Under Strong Budget Pressure Euroconsult has announced that global budgets for space programs have reached a plateau of roughly $70 billion, confirming a slowdown in expansion experienced by the space industry for the last 10 y ... 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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  Russia plans to build nuclear space engine Russian space officials say the country is dedicated to the successful building of a nuclear engine for spacecraft by 2017. ... more | .. |
 N. Korea begins fuelling rocket: report North Korea has begun fuelling a rocket for a launch that the West considers a missile test, a Japanese newspaper reported Thursday, citing a source "close to the government" in Pyongyang. ... more | .. |
 European cargo vessel docks with space station An unmanned European craft docked with the International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday 2233 GMT, laden with tonnes of fuel, water, oxygen and other supplies, France's CNES space agency said. ... more | .. |
 Soviet Weather Satellite Falls in Antarctica Meteor 1-1, the Soviet Union's first fully operational weather satellite, fell in Antarctica on Tuesday after more than four decades in orbit, the Russian Defense Ministry said. "According to ... more |
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 Happy Birthday Titan! On March 25, 1655, Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens, using a telescope he built himself, observed a small bright dot suspiciously close to the planet Saturn. Huygens correctly surmised that it mi ... more | .. |
 Cassini to Make Closest Pass Yet over Enceladus South Pole NASA's Cassini spacecraft is preparing to make its lowest pass yet over the south polar region of Saturn's moon Enceladus, where icy particles and water vapor spray out in glittering jets. The close ... more | .. |
 AMPAC-ISP Hydrazine Propulsion Module Completes Pre-Ship Review AMPAC-ISP and Orbital Sciences Corporation have completed the Pre-Ship Review for the Hydrazine Propulsion Module (HPM) for the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) satellite, a collaboration betw ... more | .. |
 Beaming Success for ISS Fans Did you ever use a flashlight to send a Morse code message to your neighbor at night as a kid? People like to say hello using lights and it's no different for space aficionados who want to twinkle a ... more |
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Boeing accelerates spacecraft production with 3D-printed solar panel structures
New fabrication method expands material options for quantum devices
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 Mars Science Laboratory Adjusts Orbital Path And Tests Instruments NASA's Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft, halfway to Mars, has adjusted its flight path for delivery of the one-ton rover Curiosity to the surface of Mars in August. Tests completed aboard Curiosit ... more | .. |
 Russia to Focus on Its Orbital Cluster - Popovkin Russia will prioritize the development of its satellites over manned spaceflight, aiming to boost the country's economy, the head of the Federal Space Agency Vladimir Popovkin said on Thursday. ... more | .. |
  Far-Out Photosynthesis Everyone knows that we as humans literally owe the air we breathe to the greenery around us. As school children we learned that plants (as well as algae and cyanobacteria) perform the all important ... more | .. |
 A glow in the Martian night throws light on atmospheric circulation A faint, infrared glow above the winter poles of Mars is giving new insights into seasonal changes in the planet's atmospheric circulation. The tell-tale night emission was first detected in 2004 in ... more |
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 ICAP Ocean Tomo Auctions NASA Software Patent Portfolios The Innovative Partnership Program Office of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., will hold a March 29 auction with ICAP Ocean Tomo LLC of Chicago to sell three NASA-developed techn ... more | .. |
  NASA Extends Cooperative Agreement With NSBRI NASA's Johnson Space Center has awarded a five-year, $120 million extension of its cooperative agreement with the National Space Biomedical Research Institute, or NSBRI, of Houston. Under the extens ... more | .. |
 ILS Proton Launches Intelsat 22 Intelsat S.A., and International Launch Services (ILS) announced today that an ILS Proton vehicle successfully launched the Intelsat 22 satellite from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Liftoff ... more | .. |
 US ramping up private sector's role in spaceflight The first flight of a commercial vessel to the International Space Station in late April will signal a bigger role for the private sector and open up space tourism opportunities, industry experts and lawmakers say. ... more |
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