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Titan's lakes could be explored by boat

10 hours ago | 5 / 5 (5) | 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- If a suggestion to be made to NASA comes to fruition, vast lakes thought to be filled with liquid hydrocarbons near the north pole of Saturn's moon Titan, may one day be explored by boat.

NASA Flight Tests Unique Jumbo Jet with Opening in Side

NASA Tests Unique Jumbo Jet with Opening in Side; Plane's Airborne Telescope Will Be Used to Study Cosmos

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Dec 21, 2009 | 5 / 5 (4) | 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- A NASA jumbo jet that will help scientists unlock the origins of the universe with infrared observations reached a milestone Friday when doors covering the plane's telescope were fully opened ...

Silicon technology offers extended X-ray vision of high-energy cosmos

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Dec 21, 2009 | 5 / 5 (3) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- As elements of the integrated circuits running our computers, phones and electronics, silicon wafers are everywhere. An ESA-led effort is establishing an out-of-this-world use for these ...

Final launch of Ariane 5 GS completes busy year

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Dec 21, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Last week, an Ariane 5 GS launcher lifted off from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana on a journey to place the French military reconnaissance satellite Helios-2B into Sun-synchronous polar ...