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  Paris (AFP) March 7, 2018 Jupiter's tempestuous, gassy atmosphere stretches some 3,000 kilometres (1,860 miles) deep and comprises a hundredth of the planet's mass, studies based on observations by NASA's Juno spacecraft revealed Wednesday. The measurements shed the first light on what goes on beneath the surface of the largest planet in the Solar System, which from a distance resembles a colourful, striped glass marble. "Galileo viewed the stripes on Jupiter more than 400 years ago. Until now, we only had a superficial ... read more |
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China moving ahead with plans for next-generation X-ray observatoryWashington (UPI) Mar 8, 2018 China is getting closer to a finalized design for its next-generation X-ray observatory. ... more  
Scientists Share Ideas for Gateway Activities Near the MoonWashington DC (SPX) Mar 08, 2018 NASA is looking at how the Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway can create value for both robotic and human exploration in deep space. In late 2017, the agency asked the global science community to submit ... more  
Opportunity collects more 'Selfie' framesPasadena CA (JPL) Mar 07, 2018 Opportunity is continuing the exploration of "Perseverance Valley" on the west rim of Endeavour Crater. The rover is positioned about half way down the approximately 656 feet (200 meter) valle ... more 
Jupiter's Jet-Streams Are UnearthlyPasadena CA (JPL) Mar 08, 2018 Data collected by NASA's Juno mission to Jupiter indicate that the atmospheric winds of the gas-giant planet run deep into its atmosphere and last longer than similar atmospheric processes found her ... more |
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The moon formed inside a vaporized Earth synestiaDavis CA (SPX) Mar 06, 2018 A new explanation for the Moon's origin has it forming inside the Earth when our planet was a seething, spinning cloud of vaporized rock, called a synestia. The new model led by researchers at the U ... more 
You are entering the Jovian Twilight ZonePasadena CA (JPL) Mar 06, 2018 This image captures the swirling cloud formations around the south pole of Jupiter, looking up toward the equatorial region. NASA's Juno spacecraft took the color-enhanced image during its ele ... more  
Do you know where your xenon is?Washington DC (SPX) Mar 02, 2018 The paradox of the missing xenon might sound like the title of the latest airport thriller, but it's actually a problem that's stumped geophysicists for decades. New work from an international team ... more 
Chemical sleuthing unravels possible path to forming life's building blocks in spaceBerkeley CA (SPX) Mar 06, 2018 Scientists have used lab experiments to retrace the chemical steps leading to the creation of complex hydrocarbons in space, showing pathways to forming 2-D carbon-based nanostructures in a mix of h ... more 
Satellite will test plan for global China led satcom networkBeijing (XNA) Mar 06, 2018 China Aerospace Science and Industry Corp, the nation's largest missile maker, will launch a satellite this year to demonstrate technologies for a vast space-based communications network capable of ... more |
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Asteroid Institute announces Tech Partners for the ADAM asteroid mapping projectSeattle WA (SPX) Mar 03, 2018 The Asteroid Institute has announced that Google Cloud and AGI as new technology partners in the development of the Asteroid Decision Analysis and Mapping (ADAM) project. ADAM is being designed as a ... more  |
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A marriage of light-manipulation technologiesArgonne, IL (SPX) Mar 02, 2018 Researchers have, for the first time, integrated two technologies widely used in applications such as optical communications, bio-imaging and Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) systems that scan th ... more 
MSU-based scientists found out how to distinguish beams of entangled photonsMoscow, Russia (SPX) Mar 02, 2018 A team from the Faculty of Physics, MSU developed a method for creating two beams of entangled photons to measure the delay between them. In the future the results of the study may be used in high-p ... more 
The PI's Perspective: Why Didn't Voyager Explore the Kuiper Belt?Boulder CO (SPX) Mar 01, 2018 New Horizons is in good health and cruising closer each day to our next encounter, an end-of-the-year flyby of the Kuiper Belt object (KBO) 2014 MU69 (or "MU69" for short). Currently, the spac ... more 
Tesla in space could carry bacteria from EarthWest Lafayette, IN (SPX) Mar 01, 2018 A red Tesla convertible hitched a ride to space with a SpaceX rocket in early February, bringing with it what may be the largest load of earthly bacteria to ever enter space. NASA's Office of ... more  
A quadrillionth of a second in slow motionMunich, Germany (SPX) Feb 27, 2018 Many chemical processes run so fast that they are only roughly understood. To clarify these processes, a team from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has now developed a methodology with a res ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 07, 2018 
This image was originally meant to track the movement of sand dunes near the North Pole of Mars, but what's on the ground in between the dunes is just as interesting!
The ground has parallel dark and light stripes from upper left to lower right in this area. In the dark stripes, we see piles of boulders at regular intervals.
What organized these boulders into neatly-spaced piles? In ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Mar 08, 2018 
NASA is looking at how the Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway can create value for both robotic and human exploration in deep space. In late 2017, the agency asked the global science community to submit ideas leveraging the gateway in lunar orbit to advance scientific discoveries in a wide range of fields. NASA received more than 190 abstracts covering topics human health and performance, Earth obse ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 08, 2018 
Data collected by NASA's Juno mission to Jupiter indicate that the atmospheric winds of the gas-giant planet run deep into its atmosphere and last longer than similar atmospheric processes found here on Earth. The findings will improve understanding of Jupiter's interior structure, core mass and, eventually, its origin.
Other Juno science results released this week include that the massive ... more |
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 Berkeley CA (SPX) Mar 06, 2018 
Scientists have used lab experiments to retrace the chemical steps leading to the creation of complex hydrocarbons in space, showing pathways to forming 2-D carbon-based nanostructures in a mix of heated gases.
The latest study, which featured experiments at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), could help explain the presence of pyrene, which is ... more |
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 Houston TX (SPX) Mar 07, 2018 
With the arrival of the Orion crew module to be used in the Ascent Abort-2 test at Johnson Space Center in Houston, the team is already at work with a lean, iterative development approach to minimize cost and ensure the flight test stays on schedule.
The approach involves considering how to do things differently, finding ways to execute elements of the buildup more efficiently and pushing ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Mar 8, 2018 
China is getting closer to a finalized design for its next-generation X-ray observatory.
As reported by Science this week, scientists at China's National Space Science Center are honing in on the final iteration of their design for the X-Ray Timing and Polarimetry, eXTP, satellite.
The eXTP mission team plans to complete a prototype by 2022, with a goal to launch the satellite in ... more |
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Mar 03, 2018 
On February 26, 2018, Hayabusa2 saw its destination -asteroid Ryugu- for the first time! The photographs were captured by the ONC-T (Optical Navigation Camera - Telescopic) onboard the spacecraft. Images were taken between noon JST on February 26th and 9:00am the following morning, with about 300 shots taken in total.
Data for nine of these images were transmitted from the spacecraft on Fe ... more |
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 Bothell WA (SPX) Mar 02, 2018  The U.S. Navy awarded Lockheed Martin a $150 million contract, with options worth up to $942.8 million, for the development, manufacture and delivery of two high power laser weapon systems, including intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) and counter-Unmanned Aerial System (counter-UAS) capabilities, by fiscal year 2020. With the High Energy Laser and Integrated Optical-dazzler with ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Mar 7, 2018 
Two of Lockheed Martin's Patriot Advanced Capability-3 Cost Reduction Initiative anti-ballistic missile systems intercepted ballistic missiles in a recent test, the Maryland-based defense company said.
The test, conducted at New Mexico's White Sands Missile Range and observed by U.S. Army officials, demonstrated the PAC-3 interceptors' ability to seek out and destroy enemy missiles, Loc ... more |
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 Ithaca NY (SPX) Jan 19, 2018 
Using the now-complete Cassini data set, Cornell University astronomers have created a new global topographic map of Saturn's moon Titan that has opened new windows into understanding its liquid flows and terrain. Two papers, recently published in Geophysical Review Letters, describe the map and discoveries arising from it.
Creating the map took about a year, according to doctoral student ... more |
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 Raleigh, NC (SPX) Mar 06, 2018 
Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a new technique that allows them to print circuits on flexible, stretchable substrates using silver nanowires. The advance makes it possible to integrate the material into a wide array of electronic devices.
Silver nanowires have drawn significant interest in recent years for use in many applications, ranging from prosthetic dev ... more |
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 Uppsala, Sweden (SPX) Feb 13, 2018 
In a new article, published in Nature Materials, researchers from Beijing, Uppsala and Julich have made significant progress allowing very high resolution magnetic measurements. With their method it is possible to measure magnetism of individual atomic planes.
Magnetic nanostructures are used in a wide range of applications. Most notably, to store bits of data in hard drives. These structu ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Mar 06, 2018 
JILA scientists have invented a new imaging technique that produces rapid, precise measurements of quantum behavior in an atomic clock in the form of near-instant visual art.
The technique combines spectroscopy, which extracts information from interactions between light and matter, with high-resolution microscopy.
As described in Physical Review Letters, the JILA method makes spatial ... more |
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 San Antonio TX (SPX) Mar 06, 2018 
A new study by Paul Rad, assistant director of the UTSA Open Cloud Institute, and Nicole Beebe, Melvin Lachman Distinguished Professor in Entrepreneurship and director of the UTSA Cyber Center for Security and Analytics, describes a new cloud-based learning platform for artificial intelligence (A.I.) that teaches machines to learn like humans.
"Cognitive learning is all about teaching comp ... more |
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 Baton Rouge LA (SPX) Mar 06, 2018 
A recent scientific expedition to the Danger Islands, a remote group of tiny islands along eastern side of the Antarctic Peninsula, used new technologies to discover and survey a breeding colony of over one and a half million penguins.
Michael Polito, assistant professor in the department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences at LSU, and co-authors detail their findings in a study published ... more |
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