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Does Triton Have a Subsurface Ocean?Moffett Field CA (SPX) Sep 07, 2012 Triton was discovered in 1846 by the British astronomer William Lassell, but much about Neptune's largest moon still remains a mystery. A Voyager 2 flyby in 1989 offered a quick peak at the satellite, and revealed a surface composition comprised mainly of water ice. The moon's surface also had nitrogen, methane, and carbon dioxide. As Triton's density is quite high, it is suspected that it has a large core of silicate rock. It is possible that a liquid ocean could have formed between the rocky cor ... read more |
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  NASA Mars Rover Curiosity Begins Arm-Work Phase After driving more than a football field's length since landing, NASA's Mars rover Curiosity is spending several days preparing for full use of the tools on its arm. Curiosity extended its robotic a ... more | .. |
 Northrop Grumman Aids Navigation of NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover Northrop Grumman supplied the navigation and pointing aid for NASA's Curiosity Mars rover, which recently began a historic two-year exploration of Mars. Northrop Grumman's LN-200S is a lightweight, ... more | .. |
 Mars's dramatic climate variations are driven by the Sun On Mars's poles there are ice caps of ice and dust with layers that reflect to past climate variations on Mars. Researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute have related the layers in the ice cap on Ma ... more | .. |
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 Hadley Crater - closing in on the Martian interior Hadley Crater on Mars has been subject to several impacts by large asteroids in the course of its history. The 'craters within a crater' formed in this way give us a view over two kilometres into th ... more | .. |
  First man on moon to be buried at sea: Armstrong family The first man on the moon will be buried at sea, a spokesman for Neil Armstrong's family said Thursday. ... more | .. |
 NASA's Mars rover parked to test robotic arm NASA's Curiosity rover has temporarily halted its journey across the surface of Mars as it tests the tools on its robotic arm, the US space agency said Thursday. ... more | .. |
  US space probe leaves asteroid's orbit, NASA says The US space probe Dawn has left the orbit of Vesta, one of the biggest asteroids in the solar system, and is headed for a rendezvous with the dwarf planet Ceres in February 2015, NASA said. ... more |
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Chinese launch campaign places multiple satellites in orbit
Galileo daughter mission named Celeste to strengthen navigation resilience
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  ISS crew complete space station repair Two International Space Station crew members on Wednesday successfully completed a spacewalk to install a new power switching unit, the US space agency NASA said. ... more | .. |
  Boeing 702MP Selected for first Intelsat EpicNG Satellite The Boeing 702MP satellite bus has been selected by Intelsat S.A. for the Intelsat 29e satellite, the first of the recently announced Intelsat EpicNG next-generation high-performance system. " ... more | .. |
  Birth of a planet The Earth and the planets of our solar system are not alone in the universe. Over the past few decades, the hunt for extrasolar planets has yielded incredible discoveries, and now planetary research ... more | .. |
  NASA Selects Science Teams for Astrobiology Institute NASA has awarded five-year grants totaling almost $40 million to five research teams to study the origin, evolution, distribution, and future of life in the universe. The newly selected teams ... more |
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 Dawn Of A New Mission To Proto Planet Ceres An interplanetary spaceship left Earth in 2007. Propelling itself gently and patiently through the solar system with a blue-green beam of xenon ions, it gradually spiraled away from the sun. It sail ... more | .. |
  Mankind's messenger at the final frontier It looks like a dustbin lid strapped to a cluster of fishing rods. Its computer is so puny it could not even start up your iPhone. And if E.T. wants to listen to the message it brings, he'll need a gramophone to play it on. ... more | .. |
 Astronauts Take Second Spacewalk Astronauts Sunita Williams and Akihiko Hoshide began a spacewalk on Wednesday in another attempt to install a power unit on the International Space Station. The operation was broadcast live on ... more | .. |
 Dawn has Departed the Giant Asteroid Vesta Mission controllers received confirmation that NASA's Dawn spacecraft has escaped from the gentle gravitational grip of the giant asteroid Vesta. Dawn is now officially on its way to its second dest ... more |
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USGS introduces first fully integrated national geologic map
Climate change is making rollercoaster harvests the new normal
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 Africa needs own space agency: Sudan's Bashir Africa needs its own space research agency, Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir told a regional conference of communications ministers who met on Wednesday as the continent's IT sector grows. ... more | .. |
 Curiosity Has a Photo Day Curiosity took a sol off from driving and spent time during the mission's Sol 25, on Aug. 31, 2012, taking images and collecting environmental monitoring data. Imaging tasks for the sol included Nav ... more | .. |
 35 years on, Voyager 'dancing on edge' of outer space NASA's Voyager 1, launched in 1977, is nearing the outer boundary of the solar system and may already be "dancing on the edge" of outer space, the experts behind the pioneering craft said. ... more | .. |
 Crew Wraps Up Preparations for Wednesday's Spacewalk The Expedition 32 crew finalized preparations Tuesday for a second spacewalk in less than a week in the wake of an unsuccessful attempt to install a replacement power-switching unit on the Internati ... more |
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  China's manned spacecraft in final preparations for mid-June launch China's Shenzhou-9 manned spacecraft is in final preparations for its launch in mid-June, paving the way for China's first manned space docking mission, as well as the country's first space mission ... more | .. |
 A Hot Potential Habitable Exoplanet around Gliese 163 A new superterran exoplanet (aka Super-Earth) was found in the stellar habitable zone of the red dwarf star Gliese 163 by the European HARPS team. The planet, Gliese 163c, has a minimum mass of 6.9 ... more | .. |
 NASA Announces Asteroid Naming Contest for Students Students worldwide have an opportunity to name an asteroid from which an upcoming NASA mission will return the first samples to Earth. Scheduled to launch in 2016, the mission is called the Origins- ... more | .. |
 Building MLM Under Way at Khrunichev The Khrunichev Space Center continue to build the flight version of the Multipurpose Laboratory Module (MLM) for the International Space Station. As of today, Khrunichev have mounted the ESA R ... more |
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Pretreatment methods bring second-gen biofuels from oilcane closer to commercialization
Graphene reveals light tuned quantum states pointing to new electronics
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 Space-age food served up with seeds of success An eggplant the size of a basketball, and a cucumber half a meter long seem, at first glance, out of this world. They are, literally. Chinese scientists have created more than 120 varieties of plant ... more | .. |
 NASA's GRAIL Moon Twins Begin Extended Mission Science NASA's twin, lunar-orbiting Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) spacecraft began data collection for the start of the mission's extended operations. At 9:28 a.m. PDT (12:28 p.m. EDT) ye ... more | .. |
 Small GEO satellite platform lands at ESA After a careful four-day road trek from Switzerland, the first model of the Small GEO communications satellite platform has arrived at ESA for testing. During its time at ESA's ESTEC facility in the ... more | .. |
 Africa eyes joint space agency African nations would work together in peaceful research under a proposal for a space agency being considered Wednesday at a meeting in Sudan of the continent's communications and IT ministers. ... more |
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 China Focus: Timeline for China's space research revealed A senior Chinese astronomer on Friday revealed a timeline for China's planned program of space research. In an interview with Xinhua, Zhang Shuangnan, an astrophysicist at the Institute of High Ener ... more | .. |
 Tiangong Orbit Change Signals Likely Date for Shenzhou 10 August 30, Tiangong 1's controllers raised its orbit by 11 kilometres, indicating that a target date for the Shenzhou 10 mission has probably been set. As August 30 dawned, Tiangong 1 was following ... more | .. |
 Moles, crabs and Moon dust: DLR at the ILA Space Pavilion Satellites with electric propulsion, a 'mole' for exploring the Martian subsurface, a mobile robot that moves sideways like a crab, a pinch of Moon dust and a hands-on medical experiment where test ... more | .. |
  The shock of separation The BepiColombo mission to Mercury has undergone a series of shock tests at ESA's test facilities to replicate conditions it will experience during its intense ride into space. This video shows test ... more |
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