News tagged with exploration gravity
Space tech helps to find natural resources
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 20, 2008 |
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Using space-based technology developed during ESA's gravity mission studies, a novel gradiometer is being developed by a UK-based company to help oil and gas companies find the most appropriate locations to ...
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NASA Uses Vertical Treadmill to Improve Astronaut Health in Space
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 30, 2008 |
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NASA is using a new treadmill that allows people to run while suspended horizontally to help astronauts prepare for long-duration missions to the moon and beyond.
Second Test Rover Added to Driving Experiments
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 24, 2009 |
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A second, lighter-weight test rover has entered the testing setup at JPL where rover team members are assessing strategy for getting Spirit out of soft soil where it is embedded on Mars.
Unique microgravity tower attracts global scientific community
Jun 07, 2007 |
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Scientists from NASA, Europe and Australia will beat a path to Queensland University of Technology’s Carseldine campus when the southern hemisphere’s only microgravity tower is completed later this year.
Plant growth experiment starts in Columbus
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 29, 2008 |
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ESA astronaut Léopold Eyharts has activated the first experiment inside the European Columbus laboratory. The WAICO experiment, which investigates the effect of gravity on plant root growth, has started inside ...
NASA Sets Sights on Lunar Dust Exploration Mission
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 10, 2008 |
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NASA is preparing to send a small spacecraft to the moon in 2011 to assess the lunar atmosphere and the nature of dust lofted above the surface.
Physicist defends Einstein's theory and 'speed of gravity' measurement
Oct 03, 2007 |
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Scientists have attempted to disprove Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity for the better part of a century. After testing and confirming Einstein's prediction in 2002 that gravity moves at the speed of light, a ...
Lunar GRAIL
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 23, 2008 |
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Meet MIT professor of physics Maria Zuber. She's dynamic, intelligent, intense, and she's on a quest for the Grail. No, not that Grail.
Muscle loss tested in artificial gravity
Sep 15, 2005 |
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University of California-Irvine researchers say a bike-like centrifuge that creates artificial gravity may help astronauts combat muscle atrophy in space.
Spacecraft Could Save Earth from Asteroids
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 04, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- British space engineers working for a space company in Stevenage in England, have designed a "gravity tractor" spacecraft to deflect any asteroids threatening to collide with Earth. The announcement ...
Researcher designs robot that jumps like a grasshopper
Dec 04, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The first robot that can jump like a grasshopper and roll like a ball could play a key role in future space exploration.
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