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Scientists bid adieu to plucky solar probe
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 30, 2009 |
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US and European scientists were Tuesday bidding farewell to the tenacious solar probe Ulysses which has been recording data around the sun for more than 18 years, four times longer than planned.
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NASA Plans to Visit the Sun
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 10, 2008 |
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For more than 400 years, astronomers have studied the sun from afar. Now NASA has decided to go there. "We are going to visit a living, breathing star for the first time," says program scientist Lika Guhathakurta ...
NASA calls on APL to send a probe to the sun
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 02, 2008 |
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The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory is sending a spacecraft closer to the sun than any probe has ever gone - and what it finds could revolutionize what we know about our star and the solar ...
Spotless Sun: Blankest Year of the Space Age
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Oct 01, 2008 |
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Astronomers who count sunspots have announced that 2008 is now the "blankest year" of the Space Age.
First Pump-Probe Experiment at Linac Coherent Light Source Completed
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The first experiment using the Linac Coherent Light Source to illuminate molecules via a "pump-probe" technique has been completed by an international team of more than 30 scientists from ...
Fuel for deep space exploration running on empty
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 07, 2009 |
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(AP) -- NASA is running out of nuclear fuel needed for its deep space exploration.
NASA launches probe to study edge of solar system (Update)
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 19, 2008 |
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NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer mission, or IBEX, successfully launched from the Kwajalein Atoll in the Pacific Ocean at 1:47 p.m. EDT, Sunday. IBEX will be the first spacecraft to image and map dynamic ...
Evidence of liquid water in comets reveals possible origin of life
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 30, 2009 |
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Comets contained vast oceans of liquid water in their interiors during the first million years of their formation, a new study claims.
A better image for plastic solar cells
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jul 07, 2008 |
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A new way to help technologists develop efficient and inexpensive plastic electronic devices, such as plastic solar cells and a new type of transistor was showcased by physicist Andrea Liscio, who is supported ...
Mystery of the Missing Sunspots, Solved?
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Jun 18, 2009 |
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The sun is in the pits of a century-class solar minimum, and sunspots have been puzzlingly scarce for more than two years. Now, for the first time, solar physicists might understand why.
Meteorites rich with information, expert says
Mar 28, 2007 |
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A Purdue University professor on Wednesday (March 28) said at national convention that meteorites hold many clues into the creation and evolution of the solar system. Michael Lipschutz, a professor of inorganic chemistry and ...
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