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October 03, 2016

Unusual Martian region leaves clues to planet's past
Baton Rouge LA (SPX) Sep 30, 2016
Researcher Don Hood from LSU and colleagues from collaborating universities studied an unusual region on Mars - an area with high elevation called Thaumasia Planum. They analyzed the geography and mineralogy of this area they termed Greater Thaumasia, which is about the size of North America. They also studied the chemistry of this area based on Gamma Ray Spectrometer data collected by the Mars Odyssey Orbiter, which was launched in 2001. What they found was the mountain ridge that outlines Greate ... read more

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				Opportunity completes busy week of science and imaging Since leaving the "Lewis and Clark Gap" of Marathon Valley, Opportunity has been driving through "Bitterroot valley" toward her first waypoint of the new extended mission, "Spirit Mound." With ... more		Waiting for Shenzhou 11 With Tiangong 2 safely in orbit, attention is now shifting to the spacecraft that will soon meet it. The Shenzhou 11 spacecraft is expected to lift off at some point in mid-October, although China h ... more

Transition from Operations to Decommissioning by Preparing a Safe, Cost-Effective Shut Down and Waste Management Strategy

One-eyed robot learns to see in weightlessness A small drone taught itself to judge distances using only one eye during trials aboard the International Space Station, ESA-backed researchers have reported. Although humans can effortlessly estimat ... more		Protoplanetary Disk Around a Young Star Exhibits Spiral Structure Astronomers have found a distinct structure involving spiral arms in the reservoir of gas and dust disk surrounding the young star Elias 2-27. While spiral features have been observed on the surface ... more		AI powered SAR imagery analysis tool launched by SATIM and ICEYE Ghosts of the Deep: China's AJX-002 XLUUV and the Geopolitics of Undersea Power Global Invacom unveils XRJ transceiver for government and defense satcom		Tiangong-2 space lab enters preset orbit for docking with manned spacecraft Chinese scientists on Sunday maneuvered the country's Tiangong-2 space lab to a preset orbit 393 kilometers above Earth's surface, in preparation for a planned docking with the Shenzhou-11 manned sp ... more
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China's space survival experiment goes on well

Rocket maker aims high with lofty output targets

Astronauts given comfort upgrade

World's first space cold atom clock

UK increases investment in Magna Parva in-space manufacturing tech

Mars 2020 rover to produce oxygen: NASA

Tiangong-2 "another significant step" for building China's space station

Opportunity Heads Toward First Waypoint of its Next Extended Mission

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