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  Paris (AFP) April 1, 2022 The first audio recordings on Mars reveal a quiet planet with occasional gusts of wind where two different speeds of sound would have a strange delayed effect on hearing, scientists said Friday. After NASA's Perseverance rover landed on Mars in February last year, its two microphones started recording, allowing scientists to hear what it is like on the Red Planet for the first time. In a study published in the Nature journal on Friday, the scientists gave their first analysis of the five hours o ... read more |
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SCOUT, USSPACECOM sign agreement to share space situational awareness servicesAlexandria VA (SPX) Mar 31, 2022 SCOUT Inc. a space tech company developing next-generation space traffic management and autonomous proximity operations services, and the Department of Defense of the United State of America (DoD), ... more 
SES partners with NorthStar to tackle space sustainability challengesLuxembourg (SPX) Apr 01, 2022 A partnership to enhance Space Situational Awareness (SSA) and ensure a sustainable use of space has been formed between SES, the world's leading satellite-based content connectivity solutions provi ... more 
Sols 3428-3429 has the science definitely overflowingPasadena CA (JPL) Mar 30, 2022 Unfortunately, our weekend drive stalled, so this morning we found ourselves still at Friday's workspace. Fortunately, it was an understood issue... and this was a good place to spend some extra tim ... more  
Koons on the Moon -- sculptures to be placed on lunar surfaceNew York (AFP) March 29, 2022 American pop artist Jeff Koons is to send sculptures to the Moon later this year on a spacecraft blasting off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, his gallery said Tuesday. ... more |
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Could a refined space weather model help scientists find life elsewhereHuntsville AL (SPX) Mar 31, 2022 A refinement to a space weather model developed by a center director at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) could help scientists check out which planets outside our solar system are likel ... more 
Out Like a Lamb for Sols 3430-3431Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 01, 2022 The rover engineers better understand the minor issue that occurred after our weekend activities. While we're still in the same location, they can fix the issue in this plan. Our arm activities in t ... more  
Scientists find Mercury has magnetic stormsFairbanks AS (SPX) Apr 01, 2022 An international team of scientists has proved that Mercury, our solar system's smallest planet, has geomagnetic storms similar to those on Earth. The research by scientists in the United Stat ... more 
Martian brain freezeParis (ESA) Mar 31, 2022 New views from ESA's Mars Express reveal fascinating ice-related features in Mars' Utopia region - home to the largest known impact basin not only on the Red Planet, but in the Solar System. U ... more |
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Pluto's giant ice volcanos may have formed from multiple eruption eventsLaurel MD (SPX) Mar 30, 2022 Scientists on NASA's New Horizons mission team have determined multiple episodes of cryovolcanism may have created some kinds of surface structures on Pluto, the likes of which are not seen anywhere ... more 
Mounds of ice in craters give new insight into Mars' past climateWest Lafayette IN (SPX) Mar 30, 2022 Newly discovered deposits of layered ice in craters scattered around Mars' southern hemisphere provide insights into how the planet's orientation controlled the planet's climate over the past 4 mill ... more 
ESA supports Indian lunar and solar missionsParis (ESA) Mar 30, 2022 The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is launching two pioneering scientific spacecraft this year, one to study the Sun, and one to land on the Moon - the nation's first soft landing on anot ... more 
Satellites around the Moon come another step closerParis (ESA) Mar 30, 2022 ESA is going to the Moon - in collaboration with its international partners - and seeks to build a lasting lunar link to enable sustainable space exploration. The agency has now evaluated init ... more |
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Juice's journey and Jupiter system tourParis (ESA) Mar 30, 2022 ESA's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, Juice, is set to embark on an eight-year cruise to Jupiter starting April 2023. The mission will investigate the emergence of habitable worlds around gas giants and ... more 
Surface simulation lab launches new chapter in Australian space researchAdelaide, Australia (SPX) Mar 29, 2022 the University of Adelaide launched its new Exterres Laboratory. The lab, which is the first of its kind in Australia, is an off-Earth surface testing environment for space technology like rovers, ... more 
Next steps for ExoMars with the rover readyParis (ESA) Mar 29, 2022 The ESA-led Rosalind Franklin rover has a unique potential to search for evidence of past life on Mars thanks to its drill and laboratory. It will be the first rover to drill 2 m below the surface, ... more 
Sample Tally for the Crater Floor CampaignPasadena CA (JPL) Mar 29, 2022 Perseverance has spent a little over one Earth year in Jezero crater. In the last week, the team reached a very special milestone as we officially completed our first science campaign focused on the ... more 
Sols 3425-3427: Vuggy BuggyGreenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 29, 2022 I learned a new word today: vug. Vugs are small cavities or pits on a rock surface and the rock in our workspace today was noticeably "vuggy." Particularly, the triangular rock face in the bottom ce ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) April 1, 2022 
The first audio recordings on Mars reveal a quiet planet with occasional gusts of wind where two different speeds of sound would have a strange delayed effect on hearing, scientists said Friday.
After NASA's Perseverance rover landed on Mars in February last year, its two microphones started recording, allowing scientists to hear what it is like on the Red Planet for the first time.
In a ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Mar 29, 2022 
The poles of the Moon have emerged as enticing goals for future exploration, given their potential for harbouring water and other volatiles. So ESA and the European Space Resources Innovation Centre, ESRIC, challenged European and Canadian engineering teams to develop vehicles capable of prospecting resources within in these shadowy regions - then put their designs to the test in a realistic lun ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Mar 30, 2022 
ESA's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, Juice, is set to embark on an eight-year cruise to Jupiter starting April 2023. The mission will investigate the emergence of habitable worlds around gas giants and the Jupiter system as an archetype for the numerous giant planets now known to orbit other stars.
This animation depicts Juice's journey to Jupiter and highlights from its foreseen tour of the ... more |
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 Santa Cruz CA (SPX) Mar 29, 2022 
If life is abundant in the universe, atmospheric methane may be the first sign of life beyond Earth detectable by astronomers. Although nonbiological processes can generate methane, a new study by scientists at UC Santa Cruz establishes a set of circumstances in which a persuasive case could be made for biological activity as the source of methane in a rocky planet's atmosphere.
This is es ... more |
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 Seoul, South Korea (UPI) Mar 31, 2022 
South Korea successfully tested its first home-produced solid fuel rocket Wednesday, the country's military said, in a boost to its space-based defense capabilities just days after North Korea test-launched an intercontinental ballistic missile.
The South Korean rocket was fired from a site in Taean, about 93 miles southwest of Seoul, the defense ministry said in a statement. Accompanying ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Mar 30, 2022 
Three astronauts stationed in China's Tiangong space station are preparing for their return trip in the middle of April, packing up personal items, experimental products and other materials, putting equipment into place and exercising to prepare their bodies for Earth's gravity.
The astronauts, Zhai Zhigang, Wang Yaping and Ye Guangfu, have to tidy up a large number of materials, including ... more |
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 West Lafayette IN (SPX) Mar 31, 2022 
While for humans the constants might be death and taxes, for planets the constants are gravity and collisions.
Brandon Johnson studies the latter, using information about impacts to understand the history and the composition of planets, moons, asteroids and meteorites throughout the solar system.
"Impact cratering is the most ubiquitous surface process shaping planetary bodies," John ... more |
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 Kirtland AFB NM (SPX) Feb 18, 2022 
The Air Force Research Laboratory's Directed Energy Directorate hosted a collaborative wargame with its sister AFRL unit, the Munitions Directorate, at Kirtland AFB, Jan. 24-28, 2022. The Directed Energy and Kinetic Energy Directed Energy Utility Concept Experiment, or DEKE DEUCE, explored synergies between directed energy and kinetic concepts in the future battlespace.
"DEKE DEUCE require ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Mar 30, 2022 
The Missile Defense Agency, in partnership with the U.S. Army Program Executive Office Missiles and Space, U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command, and Ballistic Missile Defense System Operational Test Agency, successfully conducted a flight test of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) Weapon System. The test, designated Flight Test THAAD Weapon System (FTT)-21, was conducted at t ... more |
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 Davis UK (SPX) Mar 23, 2022 
In 2006, the Cassini spacecraft recorded geyser curtains shooting forth from "tiger stripe" fissures near the south pole of Saturn's moon Enceladus - sometimes as much as 200 kilograms of water per second. A new study suggests how expanding ice during millennia-long cooling cycles could sometimes crack the moon's icy shell and let its inner ocean out, providing a possible explanation for the gey ... more |
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Mar 07, 2022 
Nanoparticles (which have sizes ranging between 3-500 nm), and sub-nanoclusters (which are around 1 nm in diameter) are utilized in many fields, including medicine, robotics, materials science, and engineering. Their small size and large surface-area-to-volume ratios give them unique properties, rendering them valuable in a variety of applications, ranging from pollution control to chemical synt ... more |
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 Barcelona, Spain (SPX) Mar 18, 2022 
Researchers from the UAB, IFAE and University College London propose using the variations in distance between the Earth and the Moon, which can be measured with a precision of less than a centimeter, as a new gravitational wave detector within a frequency range that current devices cannot detect. The research, which could pave the way for the detection of signals from the early universe, was pub ... more |
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Mar 29, 2022 
There are multiple ways to create two- and three-dimensional models of atoms and molecules. With the advent of cutting-edge apparatus that can image samples at the atomic scale, scientists found that traditional molecular models did not fit the images they saw.
Researchers have devised a better way to visualize molecules building on these traditional methods. Their models fit the imaging d ... more |
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 Beijing, China (SPX) Mar 31, 2022 
It is an inevitable choice for the development of space automation technology to use space intelligent robots to realize space exploration and space resource utilization. China started with the successful launch of the Tianhe Core Module in 2021, and intends to build a large-scale, long-term manned national space laboratory during 2021-2022, and gradually develops into the China's Space Station ... more |
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 Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany (SPX) Mar 17, 2022 
The wind is not just 'wind' - but a complicated arrangement of turbulent features that are influenced by the surrounding environment. Air turbulence is created by the landscape, but also by buildings, roads and wind turbines. In the ESTABLIS-UAS project, the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) is researching these flow effects. For this purpose, a swarm of dr ... more |
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