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NASA puzzled why parachutes failed in rocket test

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (5) | comments 4

(AP) -- NASA still isn't sure why two parachutes failed during a test flight of its prototype moon rocket just over a month ago.


WISE Launch Scheduled for Dec. 11

WISE Launch Scheduled for Dec. 11

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Launch of NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California is scheduled for Dec. 11.


NASA Challenges 350 Rocketeers Nationwide to Aim a Mile High

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA has invited more than 350 student rocketeers from middle schools, high schools, colleges and universities -- 37 teams nationwide -- to take part in the 2009-2010 NASA Student Launch Projects.


Spitzer Unveils Biggest Milky Way View at Adler Planetarium

Spitzer Unveils Biggest Milky Way View at Adler Planetarium

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- The world's largest image of our Milky Way galaxy, taken by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, went on display this week at the Adler Planetarium in Chicago.


System 97W's 'castle wall' breached, and opened up to dissipation

System 97W's 'castle wall' breached, and opened up to dissipation

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The "walls" of System 97W have been breached, and residents in the Western Pacific Ocean no longer have a tropical cyclone to worry about today. The Joint Typhoon Warning Center cancelled their "formation ...


NASA to launch sky-mapping spacecraft (AP)

NASA to launch sky-mapping spacecraft

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created 7 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

(AP) -- NASA's latest space telescope will scan the sky in search of never-before-seen asteroids, comets, stars and galaxies, with one of its main tasks to catalog objects posing a danger to Earth. The sky-mapping ...


Keeping Mars Contained

Keeping Mars Contained

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

When robotic spacecraft bring a sample of Mars back to Earth, scientists will need specially-designed facilities to study the samples and prevent them from escaping to the outside world.


Sandtrapped Rover Makes a Big Discovery

Sandtrapped Rover Makes a Big Discovery

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (49) | comments 12

Homer's Iliad tells the story of Troy, a city besieged by the Greeks in the Trojan War. Today, a lone robot sits besieged in the sands of Troy while engineers and scientists plot its escape.


Steering the Ares Rockets on a Straight Path

Steering the Ares Rockets on a Straight Path

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Ares I-X rocket stood more than 325 feet tall on the launch pad at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Fla. Spectators watched in awe as its massive solid rocket motor blazed to life with a thunderous ...


Artificial Intelligence Shuffles Schedules, Cuts Patients' Wait Times

Artificial Intelligence Shuffles Schedules, Cuts Patients' Wait Times

Medicine & Health / Other

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Some of the same artificial intelligence (AI) underlying NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope is now streamlining patient care at Strong Memorial Hospital, helping radiologists and technologists ...


NASA's WISE infrared satellite to reveal new galaxies, stars, asteroids

NASA's WISE infrared satellite to reveal new galaxies, stars, asteroids

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Data from the satellite, says principal investigator and UCLA professor Edward Wright, will help scientists answer fundamental questions about the history of our solar system, the Milky Way ...


United Nations to probe climate e-mail leak (AP)

United Nations to probe climate e-mail leak

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (7) | comments 16

(AP) -- The United Nations will conduct its own investigation into e-mails leaked from a leading British climate science center in addition to the probe by the University of East Anglia, a senior U.N. climate ...


NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites see Nida fading, and 97W getting organized

NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites see Nida fading, and 97W getting organized

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites flew over Tropical Depression Nida and System 97W in the Western Pacific Ocean and noticed that one is fading while the other is powering up.


Obama science advisers grilled over hacked e-mails

Other Sciences / Other

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 13

(AP) -- House Republicans pointed to controversial e-mails leaked from climate scientists and said it was evidence of corruption. Top administration scientists looking at the same thing found no such sign, saying it doesn't ...


Team using Subaru Telescope makes major discovery

Team using Subaru Telescope makes major discovery

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (21) | comments 2

An international team of scientists that includes an astronomer from Princeton University has made the first direct observation of a planet-like object orbiting a star similar to the sun.