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October 09, 2013

Diamond 'super-earth' may not be quite as precious
Tucson AZ (SPX) Oct 10, 2013
A planet 40 light years from our solar system, believed to be the first-ever discovered planet to consist largely of diamond, may in fact be of less exquisite nature, according to new research led by University of Arizona astronomy graduate student Johanna Teske. Revisiting public data from previous telescope observations, Teske's team analyzed the available data in more detail and concluded that carbon - the chemical element diamonds are made of - appears to be less abundant in relation to oxygen ... read more

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NAU researcher's closer look at Mars reveals new type of impact crater Lessons from underground nuclear tests and explosive volcanoes may hold the answer to how a category of unusual impact craters formed on Mars. The craters feature a thin-layered outer deposit ... more		Methane seeps of the deep sea: A bacteria feast for lithodid crabs The bottom of the deep sea is largely deserted. Oases occur for example at cold seeps where water transports dissolved elements from the seabed: Specialized microbes convert methane and sulfate from ... more		Search for alien life more complicated than thought, scientists say Finding life on distant exoplanets may be more difficult than scientists thought, researchers from China, the United States and Argentina said Monday. ... more
				NASA ban on Chinese scientists 'inaccurate': lawmaker A decision by NASA to bar Chinese scientists from an upcoming conference was deemed "inaccurate" Tuesday by the US congressman who wrote the law on which the restriction is based. ... more		Lonely planet without a star discovered wandering our galaxy An exotic young planet free-floating through the Milky Way galaxy rather than orbiting any star is practically a newborn in cosmic terms, astronomers say. ... more

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China criticises US space agency over 'discrimination' Beijing on Wednesday criticised the US space agency NASA for what it termed "discriminative action" over a decision to exclude Chinese from a forthcoming science conference in the United States. ... more		Mars Hand Lens Imager Sends Ultra High-Res Photo From Mars An instrument aboard NASA's Curiosity rover has sent back to scientists on Earth an ultra high-resolution image of a penny the rover carried to Mars. The coin was photographed by the Mars Hand ... more		EU states to hold talks on 'drone wall' to protect bloc Denmark military intel fails to identify source of drone flights Lithuania eases rules on shooting down drones		What's Next, Tiangong? Earlier this year, signs appeared that China was reshuffling its Tiangong space laboratory program. The first Tiangong lab module was launched in 2011, and two astronaut crews lived aboard it. The T ... more
				NASA ban on Chinese scientists 'inaccurate': lawmaker A controversial decision by NASA to bar Chinese scientists from a conference on exoplanets next month was deemed "inaccurate" Tuesday by the US congressman who wrote the law. ... more		SES-8 Arrives At Cape Canaveral For SpaceX Falcon 9 Launch SES is pleased to announce that the SES-8 satellite has arrived at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral (Florida). The satellite will now be processed for a November launch on board a SpaceX F ... more

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Better robot vision Object recognition is one of the most widely studied problems in computer vision. But a robot that manipulates objects in the world needs to do more than just recognize them; it also needs to unders ... more		Himawari and Mitsubishi Electric Complete Facilities For Weather Satellite Ops Himawari Operation Enterprise Corporation (Himawari Operation Enterprise) and Mitsubishi Electric have announced the completion of the ground operations system for the Himawari-8 and Himawari-9 weat ... more		NASA ISRO radar satellite beams first Earth images from space Morocco High Atlas whistle language strives for survival China warns Papua New Guinea over Australian defence deal		Surprisingly simple scheme for self-assembling robots In 2011, when an MIT senior named John Romanishin proposed a new design for modular robots to his robotics professor, Daniela Rus, she said, "That can't be done." Two years later, Rus showed h ... more
				Russia could build manned lunar base The federal space agency Roscosmos has launched a feasibility study of a project to build a manned base on the Moon, Academician Lev Zelyony, director of the Russian Academy of Sciences' Space Resea ... more		Russia to launch first android robot to ISS A robot, model SAR-400 android, is destined for the International Space Station (ISS) as helpmate for Russian cosmonauts aboard. Scientists have started testing the first Russian robot designed to w ... more

SES-8 Arrives At Cape Canaveral For SpaceX Falcon 9 Launch

Milky Way-mapping Gaia receives its sunshield

Arianespace's next Ariane 5 mission will serve two key customers: SES and HISPASAT

Making Martian clouds on Earth

NAU researcher's closer look at Mars reveals new type of impact crater

Mars Hand Lens Imager Sends Ultra High-Res Photo From Mars

Russia could build manned lunar base

NASA's moon landing remembered as a promise of a 'future which never happened'

China unveils its first and unnamed moon rover

New Horizons - Late in Cruise, and a Binary Ahoy

Pluto Science Conference Exceeds Expectations

SciTechTalk: Grab your erasers, there are more moons than we thought

	Researchers Find that Bright Nearby Double Star Fomalhaut Is Actually a Triple The nearby star system Fomalhaut - of special interest for its unusual exoplanet and dusty debris disk - has been discovered to be not just a double star, as astronomers had thought, but one of the ... more		Making Martian clouds on Earth At first glance, Mars' clouds might easily be mistaken for those on Earth: Images of the Martian sky, taken by NASA's Opportunity rover, depict gauzy, high-altitude wisps, similar to our cirrus clou ... more		NASA's moon landing remembered as a promise of a 'future which never happened' footage of the first moon landing promised a future of sci-fi heroism that never came to pass, according to a new study. The paper, by Professor Steve Brown and Professor Martin Parker, of the ... more		Scientists generate first map of clouds on an exoplanet On the exoplanet Kepler 7b, the weather is highly predictable, an international team of scientists has found: On any given day, the exoplanet, which orbits a star nearly 1,000 light-years from Earth ... more

JUNO begins decade-long mission to probe neutrino mysteries

SFL Missions to Deliver Spacecraft Buses for HawkEye 360 RF Signal Detection Expansion

Voyager debuts first space based multi cloud region to advance orbital data processing

Naval Institute History Conference: From Mercury to the Shuttle		World's Largest Solar Sail, Sunjammer, Completes Test		Asteroid near-miss reported by Russian scientists		NASA Space Telescopes Find Patchy Clouds On Exotic World		Cassini Finds Ingredient of Household Plastic in Space
NASA Mars mission escapes government shutdown, will launch		European rover meant for Mars to undergo earthly desert test		Animal mission to space gives clues to astronauts' vision problems		Nearby binary star system gets officially confirmed third member		Non-Orbiting Space Junk

Milky Way-mapping Gaia receives its sunshield

Lockheed Martin Powers on First GOES-R Weather Satellite

Rensselaer Researchers Propose New Theory To Explain Seeds of Life in Asteroids

Paper written as science hoax published by 157 science journals

Putting a face on a robot

A Seasonal Ozone Layer Over The Martian South Pole

First CASIS Funded Payloads Berthed to the ISS

Taking Snapshots Galore at 'Solander Point'

US private spacecraft company SpaceX launches upgraded Falcon rocket

First ARCA flight in the ExoMars Program completed successfully

After Successful Spacecraft Docking, US Orbits Five Satellites

Arianespace's next Ariane 5 mission will serve two key customers: SES and HISPASAT

Aerojet Rocketdyne Thrusters Help Cygnus Spacecraft Berth at the International Space Station

Proton booster back in service after mishap

NASA Wants Investigations for a Mars 2020 Rover

Suggestion of supervolcanoes on Mars ignites controversy

NASA Rover Inspects Pebbly Rocks at Martian Waypoint

Cassini finds ingredient of household plastic on Saturn moon

Martian chemical complicates hunt for life's clues

Scientists find a martian igneous rock that is surprisingly Earth-like

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