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April 04, 2016

Russian startup seeks to solve space junk problem with 'Artificial Star'
Moscow (Sputnik) Apr 04, 2016
Space junk, old, decommissioned objects in the Earth's upper atmosphere, is a major problem which could potentially trap humans on Earth forever. Now, a startup founded by students at Russia's Moscow State University of Mechanical Engineering has come up with a possible solution. "Decommissioned satellites could take decades to descend from an altitude of 600-800 kilometers. But the situation changes drastically when the satellite has a drogue chute, an object with a large area and a very small ma ... read more

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				Martian winds slowly build enormous mounds over billions of years New research has found that wind carved massive mounds of more than a mile high on Mars over billions of years. Their location helps pin down when water on the Red Planet dried up during a global cl ... more		NASA's Spitzer Maps Climate Patterns on a Super-Earth Observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have led to the first temperature map of a super-Earth planet - a rocky planet nearly two times as big as ours. The map reveals extreme temperature s ... more

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'Smoothed' light will help search for Earth's twins Physicists of MIPT (Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology) and the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences developed optical technology for the "correction" of light coming ... more		Has Tiangong 1 gone rogue China's announcement in late March that telemetry to the Tiangong 1 space laboratory had ceased is disturbing. The language used in the original Xinhua story was vague, but strongly suggested that T ... more		North Korea declares nuclear statehood 'permanently enshrined' Iran says enriched nuclear material 'under rubble' of facilities hit during Israel war ArianeGroup to develop next-generation M51.4 missile for French nuclear deterrent		The Moon thought to play a major role in maintaining Earth's magnetic field The Earth's magnetic field permanently protects us from the charged particles and radiation that originate in the Sun. This shield is produced by the geodynamo, the rapid motion of huge quantities o ... more
				'Mixed Reality' Technology Brings Mars to Earth What might it look like if you were walking around on Mars? A group of researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, has been working on methods to take this question from t ... more		Map of rocky exoplanet reveals a lava world An international team of astronomers, led by the University of Cambridge, has obtained the most detailed 'fingerprint' of a rocky planet outside our solar system to date, and found a planet of two h ... more

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	Moon Mission: A Blueprint for the Red Planet A human colony of astronauts could be living on the Moon by 2022, thanks to modern technology making missions cheaper, according to NASA scientists. The Apollo program that lead to the first h ... more		Working Toward 'Seamless' Infrared Maps of Titan Each of these two montages shows four synthetic views of Titan created using data acquired by the visual and infrared mapping spectrometer (VIMS) on board NASA's Cassini spacecraft between 2004 and ... more

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