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IBEX collecting science data, building first all-sky map of the edge of the solar system
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Jan 14, 2009 |
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Following two months of commissioning, during which the spacecraft and sensors were tuned for optimum mission performance, the Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) spacecraft began gathering data to build the first maps ...
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New space show highlights IBEX spacecraft's mission of discovery
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Mar 05, 2009 |
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As part of its education and public outreach efforts, the story of NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) mission has been chronicled in a space show premiering this month at the Adler Planetarium in Chicago. The show ...
New instrument has potential to detect water deep underground on Mars (w/ Video)
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Jun 24, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- With the whoosh of compressed gas and the whir of unspooling wire, a team of Boulder scientists and engineers tested a new instrument prototype that might be used to detect groundwater deep ...
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter's LAMP shedding light on permanently shadowed regions of the moon
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Sep 17, 2009 |
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NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), launched on June 18 of this year, has begun its extensive exploration of the lunar environment and will return more data about the Moon than any previous mission. ...
NASA launches probe to study edge of solar system (Update)
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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 ...
SPICE mission to explore the center of the solar system
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Mar 22, 2009 |
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An imaging coronal spectrograph called SPICE (Spectral Imaging of the Coronal Environment), designed by scientists and engineers at Southwest Research Institute in Boulder has been selected by ESA and NASA ...
IBEX spacecraft detects fast neutral hydrogen coming from the moon
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Jun 18, 2009 |
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NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) spacecraft has made the first observations of very fast hydrogen atoms coming from the moon, following decades of speculation and searching for their existence.
Why are African-Americans less likely to survive certain cancers?
Jul 07, 2009 |
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African Americans are more likely than other races to die from breast, prostate and ovarian cancers, but this disparity is not due to poverty or inferior healthcare, a first-of-its-kind study has found.
Primitive asteroids in the main asteroid belt may have formed far from the sun (w/ Video)
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Jul 15, 2009 |
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Many of the objects found today in the asteroid belt located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter may have formed in the outermost reaches of the solar system, according to an international team of astronomers ...
Water webs connect spiders, residents in Southwest
Jun 25, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- If you are a cricket and it is a dry season on the San Pedro River in Arizona, on your nighttime ramblings to eat leaves, you are more likely to be ambushed by thirsty wolf spiders, or so ...
Rosetta and New Horizons watch Jupiter in joint campaign
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Mar 30, 2007 |
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ESA’s Rosetta and NASA’s New Horizons are working together in their joint campaign to observe Jupiter. A preliminary analysis of the data from Rosetta’s Alice ultraviolet spectrometer indicates that the data ...
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