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September 28, 2012
MARSDAILY
NASA Rover Finds Old Streambed on Martian Surface
Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 28, 2012
NASA's Curiosity rover mission has found evidence a stream once ran vigorously across the area on Mars where the rover is driving. There is earlier evidence for the presence of water on Mars, but this evidence - images of rocks containing ancient streambed gravels - is the first of its kind. Scientists are studying the images of stones cemented into a layer of conglomerate rock. The sizes and shapes of stones offer clues to the speed and distance of a long-ago stream's flow. "From the size o ... read more

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IRON AND ICE

Mysterious Case of Asteroid Oljato's Magnetic Disturbance
Back in the 1980s, the arrival of asteroid 2201 Oljato inside the orbit of Venus heralded a flurry of magnetic activity. Now, results from ESA's Venus Express spacecraft suggest that Oljato has lost ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

Bryan Campen joins XCOR as Director of Media and Public Relations
XCOR Aerospace reports that Bryan Campen has joined the company as its Director of Media and Public Relations. Members of the press and media are invited to update their records. Campen will b ... more
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SPACE MEDICINE

SMARTCAP - Funding opportunity for companies with promising medical products for use on Earth, in space
Do you know of a small company developing a medical product that could be adapted to solve a health or human performance challenge in space? Have you developed a biomedical product for the space pro ... more
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EXO WORLDS

Stagnant Interiors Suppress Chances of Life on Super-Earths
Exoplanet hunters estimate that there could be billions of super-Earths - planets with a mass of up to ten times that of Earth - orbiting stars in the Milky Way alone. But do super-Earths real ... more
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ROCKET SCIENCE

ORBITEC Has Real "Vision" For Its New AUSEP Rocket Engine
Orbital Technologies recently conducted several key rocket engine technology demonstrations at its large engine test facility in Baraboo, Wisconsin. Under observation by representatives from b ... more
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MARSDAILY

Curiosity Completes Longest Drive Yet
On Sol 50 (Sept. 26), Curiosity completed its longest drive yet, rolling about 160 feet (48.9 meters) eastward toward the Glenelg area. The mission's total distance driven has now reached one-quarte ... more
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IRON AND ICE

Asteroid's Troughs Suggest Stunted Planet
Enormous troughs that reach across the asteroid Vesta may actually be stretch marks that hint of a complexity beyond most asteroids. Scientists have been trying to determine the origin of these unus ... more
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STATION NEWS

Space freighter undocking set for Friday
The undocking of a supply craft from the International Space Station (ISS) will take place Friday after a three-day delay, the European Space Agency (ESA) said. ... more
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MARSDAILY

Mars-like Places on Earth Give Insights into Rover Data
Life thrives on Planet Earth. In even the most inhospitable places - the freezing Antarctic permafrost, Sun-baked salt pans in Tunisia or the corrosively acidic Rio Tinto in Spain - pockets of life ... more
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OUTER PLANETS

Sharpest-ever Ground-based Images of Pluto and Charon: Proves a Powerful Tool for Exoplanet Discoveries
Despite being infamously demoted from its status as a major planet, Pluto (and its largest companion Charon) recently posed as a surrogate extrasolar planetary system to help astronomers produce exc ... more
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MARSDAILY

Professor says NASA's Martian weather reports show extreme pressure swings
Curiosity, the NASA rover that landed on Mars last month, is sending us remarkable weather observations from the Martian surface that are attracting interest from scientists. "From a weather point o ... more
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TECH SPACE

Basing of first US Space Fence facility announced
The Air Force will base a Space Fence radar site on Kwajalein Island in the Republic of the Marshall Islands with initial operations capability planned for fiscal 2017. The Fence will provide ... more
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STATION NEWS

Russia to send all-novice crew to ISS
A crew of three all-novice members would be sent to the International Space Station (ISS) in October, Russia's Cosmonauts Training Center said Tuesday. The crew, consisting of Russian cosmonau ... more
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MARSDAILY

Curiosity Finishes Close Inspection of Rock Target
NASA's rover Curiosity touched a Martian rock with its robotic arm for the first time on Sept. 22, assessing what chemical elements are in the rock called "Jake Matijevic." After a short drive ... more
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IRON AND ICE

Dawn: Vesta Got Special Delivery of Hydrated Minerals
The mechanism that incorporates water into the terrestrial planets is a matter of extensive debate for planetary scientists. Now, observations of the giant asteroid Vesta by NASA's Dawn mission sugg ... more
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STATION NEWS

ATV undocking postponed
The undocking of ATV-3 from the International Space Station late last night was postponed due to an incorrect command. During operations ATV-3 performed perfectly in line with its pre-defined measur ... more
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MARSDAILY

Where is Deimos?
Despite more than a century of observations, the orbit of the Martian moon Deimos is still not known to a high degree of accuracy, but a new study using images taken by ESA's Mars Express orbiter ha ... more
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TECH SPACE

Space debris threatens ISS: report
The International Space Station is in danger of being hit by two pieces of debris from an old Russian satellite that had previously hit a US craft in 2009, a news report said on Wednesday. ... more
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ROBO SPACE

Toyota unveils robot helping hand
Japanese car giant Toyota on Wednesday unveiled a robotic best friend that can offer a helping hand around the house fetching and carrying for the elderly or immobile. ... more
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EXO LIFE

Curious About Life: Interview with David Grinspoon
The Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover has 10 science instruments, and each will be used in the coming weeks and months to help characterize the environment of Mars and determine if the planet ... more
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MOON DAILY

Senior scientist discusses China's lunar orbiter challenges
Landing and enduring extreme temperatures will be the two biggest challenges facing Chang'e-3, China's third lunar probe, the chief scientist of China's lunar orbiter project told academics on Wedne ... more
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MOON DAILY

China has no timetable for manned moon landing
A senior scientist working on China's lunar orbiter project said Wednesday that China has not yet created a timetable for its manned moon landing program. "Putting a man on the moon involves a ... more
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DRAGON SPACE

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
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MARSDAILY

A windshield wiper for Mars dust
A team of researchers at Universidad Carlos III in Madrid (UC3M) has developed a device that works as a windshield wiper to eliminate Mars dust from the sensors on the NASA spacecrafts that travel t ... more
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TIME AND SPACE

A Clock that Will Last Forever
Imagine a clock that will keep perfect time forever, even after the heat-death of the universe. This is the "wow" factor behind a device known as a "space-time crystal," a four-dimensional crystal t ... more
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MOON DAILY

NASA sees 'gateway' for space missions
NASA has proposed a candidate for its next major mission, a "gateway" spacecraft on the far side of the moon as a staging base for moon and Mars missions. ... more
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EXO LIFE

Slow-moving rocks better odds that life crashed to Earth from space
Microorganisms that crashed to Earth embedded in the fragments of distant planets might have been the sprouts of life on this one, according to new research from Princeton University, the University ... more
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EXO LIFE

Life in the extreme
Life in extreme environments - hot acids and heavy metals, for example - can apparently make very similar organisms deal with stress in very different ways, according to new research from North Caro ... more
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MARSDAILY

Curiosity's Stars and Stripes
This view of the American flag medallion on NASA's Mars rover Curiosity was taken by the rover's Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) during the 44th Martian day, or sol, of Curiosity's work on Mars (Sept. ... more
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ROCKET SCIENCE

NASA Selects Space Launch System Advanced Development Proposals
NASA has selected 26 proposals from academia and industry for advanced development activities for the nation's next heavy lift rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS). Proposals selected under this NA ... more
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MARSDAILY

Robotic Arm Tools Get to Work
Opportunity is continuing the in-situ (contact) science campaign at a putative location of clay minerals at the inboard edge of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour Crater. The rover is positione ... more
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