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January 25, 2013

Is there life on Mars?
Moscow (Voice of Russia) Jan 25, 2013
Scientists believe that a large crater, which has been discovered on Mars, might have been a lake several billion years ago. A space vehicle, which NASA sent to explore Mars, has discovered layers of clay and carbonate minerals in the walls of this crater. These substances may form in the ground only after the contact with water. This crater, which has received the name of McLaughlin, is one of Mars's largest craters. It is 92 kms wide and 2 kms deep. The space vehicle discovered no traces of wash ... read more

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Thawing Dry Ice Drives Groovy Action On Mars Researchers using NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter see seasonal changes on far-northern Martian sand dunes caused by warming of a winter blanket of frozen carbon dioxide. Earth has no naturally fr ... more		Azerspace And Africasat-1a "fit" for Ariane 5 launch The Azerspace/Africasat-1a satellite on Arianespace's 2013 year-opening Ariane 5 mission has undergone its fit-check as preparations move ahead for the February 7 dual-passenger flight from French G ... more		Mars Rover Curiosity Uses Arm Camera at Night NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has for the first time used the camera on its arm to take photos at night, illuminated by white lights and ultraviolet lights on the instrument. Scientists used the ... more
				Opportunity At Work At Whitewater Lake Opportunity is on the inboard edge of "Cape York" on the rim of Endeavour Crater, performing an in-situ (contact) science investigation of veins in the light-toned outcrop "Whitewater Lake." O ... more		Iran Manufacturing Hi-Tech Spacesuits Iran's Space Agency officials announced that they have launched production of spacesuits along with their attempts to produce spacecrafts. Head of Aerospace Research Institute (ARI) of Iran Mohammad ... more

CubeSats, SmallSats and MicroSats

Phoenix Rising: New Video Shows Advances in Satellite Repurposing Program Inserting new capabilities into a satellite is no simple task. Doing so as that satellite hurdles through space 22,000 miles above the Earth is a bit more challenging still. DARPA's Phoenix pr ... more		Synchrotron infrared unveils a mysterious microbial community In the fall of 2010, Hoi-Ying Holman of the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) was approached by an international team researching a mysterious microbia ... more		Syrian troops move into Suwayda as violence continues 32 killed near Gaza aid sites, Hamas-run Health Ministry says Ukraine's Zelensky seeks cease-fire meeting next week		Reshuffle for Tiangong 2013 is set to be an important year for China's space program. We expect to see the first landing of a Chinese spacecraft on the Moon, in addition to a sequence of Earth satellite launches. We also ... more
				NASA's Veteran Mars Rover Ready to Start 10th Year NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity, one of the twin rovers that bounced to airbag-cushioned safe landings on Mars nine years ago this week, is currently examining veined rocks on the rim of a ... more		New Evidence Indicates Auroras Occur Outside Our Solar System University of Leicester planetary scientists have found new evidence suggesting auroras - similar to Earth's Aurora Borealis - occur on bodies outside our solar system. Auroras occur on several pl ... more

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NASA to Send Inflatable Pod to International Space Station The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) said it wants to send an inflatable space pod to be attached to the International Space Station (ISS) by 2015, which could lead to a compl ... more		Reull Vallis: a river ran through it ESA's Mars Express imaged the striking upper part of the Reull Vallis region of Mars with its high-resolution stereo camera last year. Reull Vallis, the river-like structure in these images, is beli ... more		New deep sea mining rules lack consensus despite US pressure Lightning strikes kill 33 people in eastern India From Antarctica to Brussels, hunting climate clues in old ice		Bubbling up Organics in an Ocean Vent Simulator This week, fizzy ocean water and the alkaline fluid that bubbles up from deep ocean vents are coursing through a structure at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. that is reminiscent ... more
				US company aims to 'harvest' asteroids A US company said Tuesday it plans to send a fleet of spacecraft into the solar system to mine asteroids for metals and other materials in the hopes of furthering exploration of the final frontier. ... more		NASA Selects Experimental Commercial Suborbital Flight Payloads NASA's Flight Opportunities Program has selected 13 cutting-edge space technology payloads for flights on commercial reusable launch vehicles, balloons and a commercial parabolic aircraft in 2013 an ... more

NASA Selects Experimental Commercial Suborbital Flight Payloads

Payload elements come together in Starsem's wrap-up Soyuz mission from Baikonur Cosmodrome for Globalstar

Azerspace And Africasat-1a "fit" for Ariane 5 launch

NASA's Veteran Mars Rover Ready to Start 10th Year

Opportunity Investigating Light-toned Veins in Rock Outcrop

Opportunity At Work At Whitewater Lake

US, Europe team up for moon fly-by

Russia to Launch Lunar Mission in 2015

US, Europe team up for moon fly-by

The PI's Perspective: The Seven-Year Itch

New Horizons Gets a New Year's Workout

Halfway Between Uranus and Neptune, New Horizons Cruises On

	Opportunity Investigating Light-toned Veins in Rock Outcrop Opportunity is on the inboard edge of "Cape York" on the rim of Endeavour Crater, now engaged in in-situ (contact) science investigation of veins in the light-toned outcrop "Whitewater Lake," a plac ... more		TDRS-K Offers Upgrade to Vital Communications Net NASA's Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System will get an upgrade this month when the agency launches the first of a new generation of communications satellites to connect spacecraft to the ground ... more		Aerojet's AJ26 Engine Completes Successful Hot Fire in Support of Antares Rocket Aerojet has announced that its AJ26 engine successfully completed a hot fire test this evening at NASA's Stennis Space Center. Orbital Sciences Corporation (ORB), Aerojet and NASA monitored the full ... more		Payload elements come together in Starsem's wrap-up Soyuz mission from Baikonur Cosmodrome for Globalstar The Soyuz launch campaign for Globalstar's final batch of second-generation satellites has entered a new phase at Baikonur Cosmodrome, with the "stack" of six spacecraft now positioned in the facili ... more

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Competition for hypersonic vehicles resumes		Possible Clues to Ancient Subsurface Biosphere on Mars		Amazonas 3 in Kourou for Ariane 5 year-opening launch campaign		Glitch has space telescope shut down		The PI's Perspective: The Seven-Year Itch
Martian Crater May Once Have Held Groundwater-Fed Lake		Titan Gets a Dune "Makeover"		ISS to get inflatable module		First Ariane 5 Launch For 2013 Ready With Two Birds		US scientists find evidence of ancient Martian lake

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Herschel intercepts asteroid Apophis

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Robofish Grace glides with the greatest of ease

Mathematical breakthrough sets out rules for more effective teleportation

Nexter joins robot development business

Fusion helped by collision science

ESA workhorse to power NASA's Orion spacecraft

Competition Hopes To Fine Tune ISS Solar Array Shadowing

Choosing the right people to go to Mars

Africasat-1a to launch on first Ariane 5 launch in 2013

China to launch 20 spacecrafts in 2013

Russian scientists get first ice samples from Antarctic Lake Vostok

ChemCam follows the 'Yellowknife Road' to Martian wet area

A rock is a clock: Physicist uses matter to tell time

Russia to Launch Lunar Mission in 2015

NASA Mars Rover Preparing to Drill Into First Martian Rock

Mars image suggests ancient water flow

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