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June 17, 2015

NASA Signs Agreements to Advance Agency's Journey to Mars
Paris (SPX) Jun 17, 2015
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden signed agreements with two European partners to advance Mars exploration and our journey to the Red Planet during meetings Tuesday at the Paris Air Show. Bolden and Jean-Yves Le Gall, president of the French space agency, Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), signed an agreement for France to provide the mast for the SuperCam component of NASA's Mars 2020 rover. In terms of design, SuperCam is similar to the ChemCam on the Curiosity rover, which is currently ... read more

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New study favors cold, icy early Mars The high seas of Mars may never have existed, according to a new study that looks at two opposite climate scenarios of early Mars and suggests that a cold and icy planet billions of years ago better ... more		Scientists find methane in Mars meteorites An international team of researchers has discovered traces of methane in Martian meteorites, a possible clue in the search for life on the Red Planet. The researchers examined samples from six meteo ... more		UCLA-led NASA mission provides closest ever look at dwarf planet Ceres A NASA mission led by UCLA professor Christopher Russell has released new images of the dwarf planet Ceres, the largest asteroid between Mars and Jupiter. The photos were produced by the spacecraft ... more
				One Month from Pluto Now within one month of the historic Pluto flyby, NASA's New Horizons team has executed a small but important course correction for the spacecraft, completed updated analyses of possible hazards in ... more		Saturn Spacecraft to Buzz Icy Moon Dione June 16 NASA's Cassini spacecraft will make a close flyby of Saturn's moon Dione on June 16, coming within 321 miles (516 kilometers) of the moon's surface. The spacecraft will make its closest approach to ... more

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Helium-Shrouded Planets May Be Common in Our Galaxy They wouldn't float like balloons or give you the chance to talk in high, squeaky voices, but planets with helium skies may constitute an exotic planetary class in our Milky Way galaxy. Researchers ... more		Asteroid Icarus to Make Distant Pass Tuesday Asteroid Icarus will safely pass by Earth at more than 21 times the distance of Earth to the moon on June 16. To put it another way, Icarus, one of the first near-Earth asteroids ever discover ... more		Russia launches dozens of drones as Ukraine claims 'important success' Russian jets violate Estonian air space in 'brazen intrusion' U.S. defense in free fall		Different Faces of Pluto Emerging in New Images from New Horizons The surface of Pluto is becoming better resolved as NASA's New Horizons spacecraft speeds closer to its July flight through the Pluto system. A series of new images obtained by the spacecraft's tele ... more
				Red Planet Rising Fresh off successfully retrieving samples from an asteroid in 2011, Japan's space agency, JAXA, has just unveiled an even loftier goal: to land a probe on one of Mars' two moons. It would be a major ... more		Work-experience schoolboy discovers a new planet A 15-yr-old schoolboy has discovered a new planet orbiting a star 1000 light years away in our galaxy. Tom Wagg was doing work-experience at Keele University when he spotted the planet by finding a ... more

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First US deep space weather satellite reaches final orbit More than 100 days after it launched, NOAA's Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite has reached its orbit position about one million miles from Earth. Once final instrument checks a ... more		RoboSimian Drives, Walks and Drills in Robotics Finals Showing off its robustness and versatility, the ape-like RoboSimian robot, developed at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, took fifth place in the DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC) ... more		Fossil fuels harm health from 'cradle to grave': report Trash, mulch and security: All jobs for troops in Washington Rising oceans to threaten 1.5 million Australians by 2050: report		China launches space junk monitoring center China on Monday launched a space junk monitoring center to protect its spacecraft in orbit. The new center, to be managed by the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National ... more
Planarian regeneration model discovered by artificial intelligence An artificial intelligence system has for the first time reverse-engineered the regeneration mechanism of planaria--the small worms whose extraordinary power to regrow body parts has made them a res ... more		Robot eyes will benefit from insect vision The way insects see and track their prey is being applied to a new robot under development at the University of Adelaide, in the hopes of improving robot visual systems. The project - which crosses ... more		Japanese space agency plans to get samples from Martian moon The Japanese space agency announced Thursday a plan to send a spacecraft to one of the two Martian moons for surface samples to bring back to Earth for analysis. ... more		Hubble detects stratosphere-like layer around exoplanet Researchers say they've identified a protective stratosphere-like layer around an exoplanet called WASP-33b. The layer acts a sort of sunscreen, protecting the blazing hot planet from ultraviolet light. ... more

	Bright Spots Shine in Newest Dawn Ceres Images New images of dwarf planet Ceres, taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, show the cratered surface of this mysterious world in sharper detail than ever before. These are among the first snapshots from Daw ... more		Martian glass: Window into possible past life? Researchers from Brown University have used satellite data to detect deposits of glass within impact craters on Mars. Though formed in the searing heat of a violent impact, the glasses just might pr ... more

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ESA heading towards removing space debris

Hubble finds Pluto's moons tumbling in absolute chaos

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Cassini Sends Final Close Views of Odd Moon Hyperion

MUOS-3 communications satellite completes in-orbit testing

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Astronomers Discover a Young Solar System Around a Nearby Star

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Patent for Navy small space debris tracker granted

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