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October 14, 2015

Climate models used to explain formation of Mars valley networks
University Park PA (SPX) Oct 14, 2015
The extensive valley networks on the surface of Mars were probably created by running water billions of years ago, but the source of that water is unknown. Now, a team of Penn State and NASA researchers is using climate models to predict how greenhouse warming could be the source of the water. "Everyone is looking for life on Mars, and if Mars was habitable early on as indicated by flowing water, then the chances of there being some sort of life there now goes up," said Natasha Batalha, graduate s ... read more

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Cassini Begins Series of Flybys of Enceladus NASA's Cassini spacecraft will wrap up its time in the region of Saturn's large, icy moons with a series of three close encounters with Enceladus starting Wednesday, Oct. 14. Images are expected to ... more		Airbus DS ready to start testing exoplanet tracker CHEOPS Airbus Defence and Space has finished building the structural model for ESA's CHEOPS (CHaracterising ExOPlanet Satellite), Europe's first mission to search for exoplanetary transits by performing ul ... more		Mercury featuring prominently in October skies Mercury is set to join the planetary party being held in the predawn sky. For the last couple weeks, Mars, Jupiter and Venus have been congregating in the Northern Hemisphere's morning sky. ... more
				Psychic robot will know what you really meant to do What if software could steer a car back on track if the driver swerves on ice? Or guide a prosthesis to help a shaky stroke patient smoothly lift a cup? Bioengineers at the University of Illinois at ... more		Bio-inspired robotic finger looks, feels and works like the real thing Most robotic parts used today are rigid, have a limited range of motion and don't really look lifelike. Inspired by both nature and biology, a scientist from Florida Atlantic University has designed ... more

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Mars colonisation still far off: Amitabh Ghosh NASA scientist Amitabh Ghosh said on Friday that though the discovery of liquid water on Mars opens up immense possibilities, colonization of the red planet is still a distant possibility. "Am ... more		Lakes on Mars - SETI Editorial I thought I was going to share my thoughts with you on the new study that was just published by Science. I was busy typing. I hope you will enjoy this commentary, and better, that it will bring you ... more		Sidekick autonomy software guides YFQ-42A test mission for CCA program Infleqtion lists shares on NYSE as neutral atom quantum firm Top Chinese gaming companies continue to challenge		Planetary Data System Releases Final Raw MESSENGER Dataset Data collected during MESSENGER's 43rd through 49th months in orbit around Mercury were released to the public by NASA's Planetary Data System (PDS), the network of nodes that archives and distribut ... more
				Hubble Telescope Spots Mysterious Space Objects Scientists from the Paris Observatory have discovered mysterious undulating objects on space photos made with the Hubble space telescope and ESO's Very Large Telescope, scientific magazine Nature wr ... more		More-flexible machine learning Machine learning, which is the basis for most commercial artificial-intelligence systems, is intrinsically probabilistic. An object-recognition algorithm asked to classify a particular image, for in ... more

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Wet paleoclimate of Mars revealed by ancient lakes at Gale Crater We have heard the Mars exploration mantra for more than a decade: follow the water. In a new paper published October 9, 2015, in the journal Science, the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) team presents ... more		ASU business professor helps astronauts stay on task You'd be hard-pressed to find a seasoned businessman or woman who hasn't sat through a mid-morning meeting, oblivious to the decisions being made or plans being hatched. Often, that out-to-lunch inc ... more		NASA outlines obstacles to putting a human on Mars The engineers, scientists and astronauts at NASA are working on an endless list of fascinating experiments, projects and missions. But one target looms above all: putting a human on Mars. ... more		Exoplanet Anniversary: From Zero to Thousands in 20 Years October 6 marks the 20th anniversary of the first discovery of a planet orbiting a sun-like, or "normal," star beyond our solar system. The planet, called 51 Pegasi b, belongs to a class of planets ... more

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ESA entrusts Indra with data storage for the Sentinel 2B satellite

Asteroids found to be the moon's main 'water supply'

Rock samples from Western US teach how to hunt for life on Mars

Students Advance Mars Airplane Concept

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SwRI awarded NASA contract to develop Jupiter Trojan asteroid mission

Space startup confirms plans for robotic moon landings

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