News tagged with space exploration
Turbulence responsible for black holes' balancing act
Jul 14, 2009 |
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We live in a hierarchical Universe where small structures join into larger ones. Earth is a planet in our Solar System, the Solar System resides in the Milky Way Galaxy, and galaxies combine into groups and ...
SPICE mission to explore the center of the solar system
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
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 ...
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.
The Camera That Saved Hubble... Twice: JPL's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2
May 11, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- First motion is almost always a big event in the world of space exploration. Whether the first motion is of a wheel beginning to rotate or a rocket lifting off the pad, first motion means ...
Funding threatens US return to moon by 2020
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 18, 2009 |
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US ambitions of returning to the moon by 2020 and then heading to Mars risk being grounded because of "unrealistic" funds allocated to NASA, said Senator Bill Nelson, a former space shuttle astronaut.
