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  Providence RI (SPX) Apr 08, 2022 The face that the Moon shows to Earth looks far different from the one it hides on its far side. The nearside is dominated by the lunar mare - the vast, dark-colored remnants of ancient lava flows. The crater-pocked far side, on the other hand, is virtually devoid of large-scale mare features. Why the two sides are so different is one of the Moon's most enduring mysteries. Now, researchers have a new explanation for the two-faced Moon - one that relates to a giant impact billions of years ago near ... read more |
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A Beacon in the Galaxy: Updated Arecibo Message for Potential FAST and SETI ProjectsMountain View CA (SPX) Apr 08, 2022 An updated, binary-coded message has been developed for transmission to extraterrestrial intelligences in the Milky Way galaxy. The proposed message includes basic mathematical and physical concepts ... more  
Space debris found in rural India likely from 'China rocket'Mumbai (AFP) April 4, 2022 A large metal ring and sphere that villagers in rural western India said fell from the sky over the weekend could be from a Chinese rocket launched into space last year, officials told local media. ... more  
Planetary scientist helps equip rover Perseverance with 4 of the 5 human sensesWest Lafayette IN (SPX) Apr 06, 2022 For two decades, Roger Wiens has built instruments to give humans eyes and a nose on Mars - and now he's helping add ears as well. Wiens, a professor of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Scien ... more  
Shake and Bake as NASA's Psyche tested in spacelike conditionsPasadena CA (JPL) Apr 05, 2022 To prepare for its launch in August, the Psyche spacecraft was tested to ensure it can operate in the extreme conditions it will face on its trip to a metal-rich asteroid. The conditions that ... more |
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NASA's Perseverance rover listens in the thin Martian atmosphereBerlin, Germany (SPX) Apr 04, 2022 Mars has a very thin atmosphere, which at the surface has a density approximately one percent that of Earth's. Until recently, it was unclear whether there is anything to hear in the barren landscap ... more 
Citizen scientists help map ridge networks on MarsTempe AZ (SPX) Apr 07, 2022 Over the last two decades, scientists have discovered unusual ridge networks on Mars using images from spacecraft orbiting the Red Planet. How and why the ridges formed and what clues they may provi ... more 
Magma makes marsquakes rock Red PlanetCanberra, Australia (SPX) Apr 04, 2022 Volcanic activity beneath the surface of Mars could be responsible for triggering repetitive marsquakes, which are similar to earthquakes, in a specific region of the Red Planet, researchers from Th ... more 
NASA names winners of Lunar Robotics Design ContestWashington DC (SPX) Apr 08, 2022 NASA has chosen two students as winners of the Lunabotics Junior Contest, a national competition for K-12 students featuring the agency's Artemis missions. Contestants were charged with designing a ... more |
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Sol 3436: Motion AccomplishedPasadena CA (JPL) Apr 07, 2022 There was good news when we came in for planning today - our remote mast recovery and all our other activities completed successfully, including the drive. Today I took on the role of "Suprata ... more 
ESA astronaut performs simulated polar Moon landingParis (ESA) Apr 08, 2022 Side-lit by the Sun, its heavily cratered surface mired in shadow, the south pole of the Moon represents a highly challenging lunar landing target. Italian ESA astronaut Roberto Vittori took to an a ... more  
A closer look at Jupiter's origin storyBern, Switzerland (SPX) Apr 06, 2022 Researchers of the University of Zurich (UZH) and the National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) PlanetS have investigated Jupiter's formation history in great detail. Their results suggest th ... more 
Kepler telescope delivers new planetary discovery from the graveManchester UK (SPX) Apr 04, 2022 A new study by an international team of astrophysicists, led by the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics has presented the amazing new discovery of a near-identical twin of Jupiter orbiting a star a ... more |
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Hubble probes extreme weather on ultra-hot Jovian exoplanetsGreenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 07, 2022 In studying a unique class of ultra-hot exoplanets, NASA Hubble Space Telescope astronomers may be in the mood for dancing to the Calypso party song "Hot, Hot, Hot." That's because these bloated Jup ... more 
NASA simulator helps to shed light on mysteries of Solar SystemLisbon, Portugal (SPX) Apr 04, 2022 Even in our cosmic backyard, the Solar System, many questions remain open. On Venus there are formations similar to volcanoes, but it is not known if they are active. The surface of Mars suggests th ... more 
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover reroutes away from 'Gator-Back' rocksPasadena CA (JPL) Apr 08, 2022 NASA's Curiosity Mars rover spent most of March climbing the "Greenheugh Pediment" - a gentle slope capped by rubbly sandstone. The rover briefly summited this feature's north face two years ago; no ... more 
'Moon landing' performed with DLR Robotic Motion SimulatorOberpfaffenhofen, Germany (SPX) Apr 08, 2022 How will astronauts land safely on the Moon in the future? A seamless interaction between pilot and spacecraft is crucial to ensuring a successful Moon landing. Together with partners from industry ... more 
MDA joins Lockheed Martin and General Motors on next generation lunar rover developmentMontreal, Canada (SPX) Apr 06, 2022 MDA Ltd has announced that it is working with Lockheed Martin and General Motors to integrate MDA's commercial robotic arm technology on their planned human-rated lunar mobility vehicles. The ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 08, 2022 
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover spent most of March climbing the "Greenheugh Pediment" - a gentle slope capped by rubbly sandstone. The rover briefly summited this feature's north face two years ago; now on the pediment's southern side, Curiosity has navigated back onto the pediment to explore it more fully.
But on March 18, the mission team saw an unexpected terrain change ahead and realized ... more |
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 Providence RI (SPX) Apr 08, 2022 
The face that the Moon shows to Earth looks far different from the one it hides on its far side. The nearside is dominated by the lunar mare - the vast, dark-colored remnants of ancient lava flows. The crater-pocked far side, on the other hand, is virtually devoid of large-scale mare features. Why the two sides are so different is one of the Moon's most enduring mysteries.
Now, researchers ... more |
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 Bern, Switzerland (SPX) Apr 06, 2022 
Researchers of the University of Zurich (UZH) and the National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) PlanetS have investigated Jupiter's formation history in great detail. Their results suggest that the giant planet migrated far from its origin and collected large amounts of material on its journey.
One of the most important open questions in planetary formation theory is the story of Ju ... more |
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 Mountain View CA (SPX) Apr 08, 2022 
An updated, binary-coded message has been developed for transmission to extraterrestrial intelligences in the Milky Way galaxy. The proposed message includes basic mathematical and physical concepts to establish a universal means of communication followed by information on the biochemical composition of life on Earth, the Solar System's time-stamped position in the Milky Way relative to known gl ... more |
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 New Delhi, India (IANS) Apr 08, 2022 
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is likely to launch seven satellites during the current year and the expenditure towards the realisation of satellites is nearly Rs 490 crore, the Parliament was informed on Wednesday.
"ISRO has successfully launched the Earth Observation Satellite EOS-4 onboard PSLV-C52 on February 14, 2022 from Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota, along w ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Apr 01, 2022 
China's Tianzhou 2 cargo spaceship fell back to Earth on Thursday afternoon with most of its body burnt up during the reentry process, according to the China Manned Space Agency.
The agency said in a statement the robotic craft started to enter the atmosphere around 6:40 pm under the ground control and the extreme heat caused by air friction dismantled and destroyed most of the ship. A few ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 08, 2022 
An agreement between NASA and the U.S. Space Force recently authorized the public release of decades of data collected by U.S. government sensors on fireball events (large bright meteors also known as bolides) for the benefit of the scientific and planetary defense communities. This action results from collaboration between NASA's Planetary Defense Coordination Office (PDCO) and the U.S. Space F ... 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.
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 Washington (AFP) April 6, 2022 
The US announced Tuesday it has approved the sale of up to $95 million worth of training and equipment to support Taiwan's Patriot missile defense system, something Taipei said would help protect the island from any invasion by China.
"The proposed sale will help to sustain (Taiwan's) missile density and ensure readiness for air operations," the Pentagon's Defense Security Cooperation Agency ... 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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 Bonn, Germany (SPX) Apr 08, 2022 
Coalescing supermassive black holes in the centers of merging galaxies fill the universe with low-frequency gravitational waves. Astronomers have been searching for these waves by using large radio telescopes to look for the subtle effect these spacetime ripples have on radio waves emitted by pulsars within our Galaxy.
Now, an international team of scientists has shown that the high-energy ... more |
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 Hatfield UK (SPX) Apr 07, 2022 
In fiction and in films such as Spiderman: Into the Spider-Verse, parallel universes - also called the multiverse - exist alongside our own, with anything from small differences in events to entirely different rules of physics. It is an exciting and fascinating idea. Physicists have given the question of whether parallel universes could exist a lot of thought - and have come up with quite a few ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Apr 07, 2022 
In machine learning, understanding why a model makes certain decisions is often just as important as whether those decisions are correct. For instance, a machine-learning model might correctly predict that a skin lesion is cancerous, but it could have done so using an unrelated blip on a clinical photo.
While tools exist to help experts make sense of a model's reasoning, often these method ... more |
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 San Diego CA (SPX) Apr 08, 2022 
Northrop Grumman Corporation's (NYSE: NOC), NATO's Alliance Ground Surveillance (AGS) RQ-4D Phoenix Global Hawk has reached a major milestone with the NATO AGS Management Agency (NAGSMA)'s Full System Handover to the NATO AGS Force (NAGSF) at the Main Operating Base, Sigonella, Sicily. The specially-designed AGS system is uniquely suited to NATO requirements and is providing critical Joint ISR s ... more |
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