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Kepler Mission Manager Update
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 24, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Kepler experienced a safe mode event on Nov. 18, 2009.
NRL Begins Southeast Asia Study of Aerosols Linked to Global Warming
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Sep 28, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- NRL's Marine Meteorology Division has deployed the Mobile Atmosphere, Aerosol, and Radiation Characterization Observatory (MAARCO) to the National University of Singapore to begin the first ...
Hand-held Aerosol Sensors Help Fill Crucial Data Gap Over Oceans
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Jun 29, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Since NASA researchers began assembling the Aerosol Robotic Network (AERONET) in the 1990s, the worldwide network of ground-based aerosol sensors has grown to 400 sites across seven continents.
Dust Cover Jettisoned From NASA's Kepler Telescope
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Apr 08, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Engineers have successfully ejected the dust cover from NASA's Kepler telescope, a spaceborne mission soon to begin searching for worlds like Earth.
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Astronomers do it Again: Find Organic Molecules Around Gas Planet (w/ Video)
Oct 20, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Peering far beyond our solar system, NASA researchers have detected the basic chemistry for life in a second hot gas planet, advancing astronomers toward the goal of being able to characterize ...
Largest Ring Around Saturn Discovered
Oct 07, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has discovered an enormous ring around Saturn -- by far the largest of the giant planet's many rings.
Scientists begin Southeast Asia study of aerosols linked to global warming
Sep 17, 2009 |
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NRL's Marine Meteorology Division has deployed the Mobile Atmosphere, Aerosol, and Radiation Characterization Observatory (MAARCO) to the National University of Singapore to begin the first comprehensive radiation ...
Herschel first images promise bright future
Jul 10, 2009 |
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Herschel has carried out the first test observations with all its instruments, with spectacular results. Galaxies, star-forming regions and dying stars comprised the telescope's first targets. The instruments ...
Odd discovery may help refine theories about how planets form
Jun 17, 2009 |
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An international team of researchers has found a planet around another star whose orbit is steeply tilted from the plane of the star's equator, a finding that contradicts some theories about how solar systems form.
Spitzer Telescope Warms Up to New Career
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May 06, 2009 |
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The primary mission of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope is about to end after more than five and a half years of probing the cosmos with its keen infrared eye. Within about a week of May 12, the telescope is ...
Kepler Captures First Views of Planet-Hunting Territory
Apr 16, 2009 |
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NASA's Kepler mission has taken its first images of the star-rich sky where it will soon begin hunting for planets like Earth.
Innovative avionics enable search for habitable planets
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Mar 09, 2009 |
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The search for habitable planets continues with the March 6 launch of the Kepler spacecraft, the latest in NASA's series of low cost, highly focused Discovery missions. Kepler, built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., ...
Scientists search for answers from the carbon in the clouds
Jul 25, 2008 |
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An aerosol mass spectrometer developed by chemists from Aerodyne Research Inc. and Boston College is giving scientists who study airborne particles the technology they need to examine the life cycles of atmospheric ...
Spitzer Reveals 'No Organics' Zone Around Pinwheel Galaxy
Jul 21, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The Pinwheel galaxy is gussied up in infrared light in a new picture from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.
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