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  Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 17, 2021 Scientists with NASA's Perseverance Mars rover mission have discovered that the bedrock their six-wheeled explorer has been driving on since landing in February likely formed from red-hot magma. The discovery has implications for understanding and accurately dating critical events in the history of Jezero Crater - as well as the rest of the planet. The team has also concluded that rocks in the crater have interacted with water multiple times over the eons and that some contain organic molecules. ... read more |
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Locked in stone: Research may answer the question of Mars' missing waterBinghamton NY (SPX) Dec 17, 2021 Rivers and streams once flowed across the surface of Mars, etching channels still evident on the planet's surface today. Water in lakes once lapped ancient shores. All told, the geological evi ... more 
To Seitah and BackPasadena CA (JPL) Dec 17, 2021 Six months ago, we began the dedicated investigation of the Jezero crater floor, and now in December 2021 we are more than halfway through this first science campaign. Since our first sampling exper ... more  
Watching the Blink of a Star to Size Up Asteroids for NASA's Lucy MissionGreenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 17, 2021 Gathering near Las Vegas recently, dozens of astronomers spread throughout the region, pointed their telescopes at the sky and waited for the moment on Oct. 20 that the light from a faraway star bli ... more 
NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Reaches a Total of 30 Minutes AloftPasadena CA (JPL) Dec 17, 2021 The 17th flight of NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter on Dec. 5 pushed the total flight time past the 30-minute mark. The 117-second sortie brought history's first aircraft to operate from the surface ... more |
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Advanced analysis of Apollo sample illuminates Moon's evolution, coolingManoa HI (SPX) Dec 17, 2021 Sophisticated analysis of a rock sample taken from the Moon during the Apollo 17 mission revealed new information about the complex cooling and evolutionary history of the Moon. The findings, from U ... more  
Life arose on hydrogen energyDuesseldorf, Germany (SPX) Dec 15, 2021 How did the first chemical reactions get started at the origin of life and what was their source of energy? Researchers at the Heinrich Heine University Dusseldorf (HHU) have reconstructed the metab ... more  
Cracking the mystery of nitrogen ice dynamics on PlutoParis, France (SPX) Dec 17, 2021 Sputnik Planitia, a basin on the surface of Pluto1 filled with nitrogen ice, displays an astonishing pattern of flat polygons separated by narrow troughs. This feature is a sign of thermal convectio ... more 
Deep Mantle Krypton Reveals Earth's Outer Solar System AncestryDavis CA (SPX) Dec 17, 2021 Krypton from the Earth's mantle, collected from geologic hot spots in Iceland and the Galapagos Islands, reveals a clearer picture of how our planet formed, according to new research from the Univer ... more 
Founding members of world's first independent space science mission confirmedLondon UK (SPX) Dec 17, 2021 Blue Skies Space Ltd. has confirmed that scientists from fourteen universities across the world have joined its first space science mission, Twinkle, as the initial group of Founding Members. ... more |
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Stellar "ashfall" could help distant planets growTokyo, Japan (SPX) Dec 15, 2021 The world's first 3D simulation simultaneously considering dust motion and growth in a disk around a young star has shown that large dust from the central region can be entrained by and then ejected ... more 
Scientists envision what Mars would look like as an exoplanetBoulder CO (SPX) Dec 15, 2021 In science fiction movies and television shows, real-life locations on Earth, such as California's Redwood National Forest and the Sahara Desert, have long been used to represent alien worlds. But r ... more 
Spelunking on the moon: New study explores lunar pits and cavesBoulder CO (SPX) Dec 15, 2021 The moon may be a mostly uniform expanse of gray, but if you look closely, you can still find a few nooks and crannies in its surface, from deep trenches to pits and maybe even caves. Now, res ... more 
NASA begins testing robotics to bring first samples back from MarsPasadena CA (JPL) Dec 15, 2021 Testing has already begun on what would be the most sophisticated endeavor ever attempted at the Red Planet: bringing rock and sediment samples from Mars to Earth for closer study. The multi-mission ... more 
Double drop test success for ExoMars parachutesParis (ESA) Dec 15, 2021 The largest parachute set to fly on Mars has completed its first successful high-altitude drop test, a critical milestone for ensuring the ExoMars mission is on track for launch in 2022. Both the fi ... more |
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The ESA-Roscosmos ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter has spotted significant amounts of water at the heart of Mars' dramatic canyon system, Valles Marineris.
The water, which is hidden beneath Mars' surface, was found by the Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO)'s FREND instrument, which is mapping the hydrogen - a measure of water content - in the uppermost metre of Mars' soil.
While water is known to exi ... more |
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 Boulder CO (SPX) Dec 15, 2021 
The moon may be a mostly uniform expanse of gray, but if you look closely, you can still find a few nooks and crannies in its surface, from deep trenches to pits and maybe even caves.
Now, researchers at CU Boulder have set out to explore what the environment might be like inside some of these shadowy features-many of which are too dark to see clearly from orbit.
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 Davis CA (SPX) Dec 17, 2021 
Krypton from the Earth's mantle, collected from geologic hot spots in Iceland and the Galapagos Islands, reveals a clearer picture of how our planet formed, according to new research from the University of California, Davis.
The different isotopes of krypton are chemical fingerprints for scientists sleuthing out the ingredients that made the Earth, such as solar wind particles and meteorit ... more |
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 London UK (SPX) Dec 17, 2021 
Blue Skies Space Ltd. has confirmed that scientists from fourteen universities across the world have joined its first space science mission, Twinkle, as the initial group of Founding Members.
The Founding Members include institutions from North America (Vanderbilt University, Ohio State University, University of Toronto), Asia-Pacific (Nanjing University, National Tsing Hua University, Uni ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Dec 17, 2021 
On Saturday 11 December, the James Webb Space Telescope was placed on top of the Ariane 5 rocket that will launch it to space from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana.
After its arrival in the final assembly building, Webb was lifted slowly about 40 m high and then carefully manoeuvred on top of Ariane 5, after which technicians bolted Webb's launch vehicle adapter down to the rocket.
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 Beijing (XNA) Dec 10, 2021 
A Long March-4B rocket on Friday morning successfully sent a new group of satellites into space, marking the 400th launch mission of the China-developed Long March carrier rocket series.
Since the first launch in 1970, the Long March carrier rocket series has carried out 92.1 percent of China's space launch mission, according to the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 10, 2021 
Through a new 3D real-time visualization tool, you can now explore the asteroids and comets that approach Earth's orbital neighborhood - and the spacecraft that visit these objects - with a click or a swipe. NASA's Eyes on Asteroids brings this data to any smartphone, tablet, or computer with an internet connection - no download required.
Thousands of asteroids and dozens of comets are dis ... more |
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 Kirtland AFB NM (SPX) Nov 04, 2021 
The Air Force Research Laboratory's Directed Energy Directorate is partnering with The University of New Mexico (UNM) to establish a center for directed energy studies, a congressionally-funded endeavor.
The Directed Energy Center will be based at UNM and jointly managed by UNM's School of Engineering and UNM's Center for High Technology Materials (CHTM). AFRL is recognized as the nation's ... more |
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 Azusa CA (SPX) Dec 17, 2021 
The Northrop Grumman Corporation and Ball Aerospace team successfully achieved three critical milestones on production of its Next Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared (Next Gen OPIR) Geosynchronous Earth Orbit (GEO) Engineering Development Unit (EDU) payload. The missile warning sensor payload is being developed for the U.S. Space Force's GEO missile warning satellites built by spacecraft pr ... more |
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 Honolulu HI (SPX) Oct 18, 2021 
Strike-slip faulting, the type of motion common to California's well-known San Andreas Fault, was reported recently to possibly occur on Titan, Saturn's largest moon. New research, led by planetary scientists from the University of Hawai?i at Manoa School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST), suggests this tectonic motion may be active on Titan, deforming the icy surface.
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 Groningen, Netherlands (SPX) Oct 27, 2021 
It is an intuitive rule of thumb: if you reduce the density of a material, its stiffness will also be reduced. But scientists from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the US noticed that materials that are based on sandwich nanotubes retained their stiffness at lower densities.
Modelling by materials scientists from the University of Groningen (The Netherlands) revealed how this ... more |
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 Goleta CA (SPX) Dec 09, 2021 
On April 18, 2019, the European Space Agency's Gaia Mission alerted astronomers worldwide to an unusually bright but fleeting celestial event: the gravitational microlensing event Gaia19bld. The temporary, chance alignment between two unrelated star systems produced twin images of the background star and gave scientists their first opportunity to actually observe the arc-shaped images move in re ... more |
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 Miami FL (SPX) Dec 17, 2021  Upending textbook explanations, astrophysicists from the University of Miami, Yale University, and the European Space Agency suggest that primordial black holes account for all dark matter in the universe.
Proposing an alternative model for how the universe came to be, a team of astrophysicists suggests that all black holes-from those as tiny as a pin head to those covering billions of miles-we ... more |
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 Perth, Australia (SPX) Dec 17, 2021 
Fugro confirms the Australian Space Automation, Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Control Complex (SpAARC) will be located in the heart of downtown Perth's central business district (CBD). Housed in Western Australia's (WA's) largest telecommunications exchange, and thanks to an ongoing partnership with Telstra, Fugro's world-class facility will manage robotics and remote operations in Austra ... more |
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 Shanghai (AFP) Dec 17, 2021 
Chinese drone-maker DJI is easily the highest-profile company targeted in a new round of US economic sanctions against companies over China's treatment of its Muslim Uyghur minority.
Following are key facts about Shenzhen DJI Sciences and Technologies Ltd, better known around the world by drone users simply as DJI.
- Born in a dorm -
Company lore traces DJI's birth to the college dor ... more |
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