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NASA Returns to the Moon with Instruments on Indian Spacecraft
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 21, 2008 |
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Two NASA instruments to map the lunar surface will launch on India's maiden moon voyage. The Moon Mineralogy Mapper will assess mineral resources, and the Miniature Synthetic Aperture Radar, or Mini-SAR, will map the polar ...
Secrets Of Stradivarius' unique violin sound revealed, prof says
Jan 22, 2009 |
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For centuries, violin makers have tried and failed to reproduce the pristine sound of Stradivarius and Guarneri violins, but after 33 years of work put into the project, a Texas A&M University professor is ...
Mars Orbiter Resumes Normal Science Operations
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 04, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has fully recovered from an unexpected computer re-set last week and resumed its scientific investigation of Mars.
James Webb Space Telescope Begins to Take Shape at Goddard
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 15, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is starting to come together. A major component of the telescope, the Integrated Science Instrument Module structure, recently arrived at NASA Goddard Space ...
Europe all set for lunar mission Chandrayaan-1
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 25, 2008 |
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Europe is participating in a big way in the Indian Space Agency’s Chandrayaan-1 mission to the Moon, by contributing three instruments. All these instruments have now been delivered, tested and integrated ...
MESSENGER Spacecraft Flies by Mercury
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 30, 2009 |
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Shortly before 5:55 p.m. EDT, MESSENGER skimmed 228 kilometers (141 miles) above the surface of Mercury in its third and final flyby of the planet.
Researchers Wanted: Humans Need Not Apply?
Technology / Computer Sciences
Apr 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- As science fiction plot lines go, the unintended consequences of yielding tasks too complicated or dangerous for human hands to computers and robots is a popular one. Yet real life scientists ...
Proba-2's journey to Russia marks its first step towards space
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 06, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Proba-2, one of the smallest satellites ESA has ever built for space, is about to leave its Belgian homeland. Its development and testing complete, the satellite is being packed up for the ...
NASA Invites Public to Choose Hubble's Next Discovery
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 28, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA is giving everyone the opportunity to use the world's most celebrated telescope to explore the heavens and boldly look where the Hubble Space Telescope has never looked before.
Planck first light yields promising results (w/ Video)
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 17, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Planck, ESA's mission to study the early Universe, started surveying the sky regularly from its vantage point at L2 on 13 August. The instruments of ESA's 'time machine' were fine-tuned for ...
GOCE successfully completes early orbit phase
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 20, 2009 |
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ESA's GOCE satellite was formally declared ready for work at 01:00 CET on 20 March. During the critical Launch and Early Orbit Phase beginning with separation from its booster on 17 March, GOCE was checked ...
Spallation Neutron Source gets initial go-ahead on second target
Jan 16, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The U.S. Department of Energy has given its initial approval to begin plans for a second target station for the Spallation Neutron Source, expanding what is already the world's most powerful ...
Chandrayaan-1 now in lunar orbit
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 10, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Chandrayaan-1, the Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) lunar orbiter, was captured into orbit around the Moon on 8 November. One day later, the spacecraft performed a manoeuvre that ...
New deep-sea observatory goes live
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 17, 2008 |
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Off the coast of Central California, in the inky darkness of the deep sea, a bright orange metal pyramid about the size of two compact cars sits quietly on the seafloor. Nestled within the metal pyramid is ...
Otherworldly Solar Eclipse
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 26, 2009 |
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For the first time, a spacecraft from Earth has captured hi-resolution images of a solar eclipse while orbiting another world.
