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  Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 19, 2021 Less than a day after NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover successfully landed on the surface of Mars, engineers and scientists at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California were hard at work, awaiting the next transmissions from Perseverance. As data gradually came in, relayed by several spacecraft orbiting the Red Planet, the Perseverance team were relieved to see the rover's health reports, which showed everything appeared to be working as expected. Adding to the excitem ... read more |
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America has sent five rovers to Mars -- when will humans follow?Washington (AFP) Feb 20, 2021 With its impeccable landing on Thursday, NASA's Perseverance became the fifth rover to reach Mars - so when can we finally expect the long-held goal of a crewed expedition to materialize? ... more 
Life of a pure Martian designVienna, Austria (SPX) Feb 19, 2021 Early Mars is considered as an environment where life could possibly have existed. There was a time in the geological history of Mars when it could have been very similar to Earth and harbored life ... more 
Oregon experiments find that electrical sparks are possible on MarsEugene OR (SPX) Feb 19, 2021 Friction caused by dry Martian dust particles making contact with each other may produce electrical discharge at the surface and in the planet's atmosphere, according University of Oregon researcher ... more 
Touchdown: NASA's Perseverance rover ready to search for life on MarsWashington (AFP) Feb 19, 2021 After seven months in space, NASA's Perseverance rover overcame a tense landing phase with a series of perfectly executed maneuvers to gently float down to the Martian soil Thursday and embark on its mission to search for signs of past life. ... more |
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Falling to Earth takes a long timeParis (ESA) Feb 18, 2021 Our planet's atmosphere reduces the energy of satellites in orbit (on Earth, this would be like reducing their speed, but in space, it's complex!). This then brings them back down to Earth. Th ... more 
Was there ever life on Mars? NASA's Perseverance rover wants to find outWashington (AFP) Feb 18, 2021 Seven months in space, a mission that was decades in the making and cost billions of dollars, all to answer the question: was there ever life on Mars? ... more 
Mars rover mission could drive research for decades to comeWashington DC (UPI) Feb 18, 2021 After NASA attempts Thursday to land the biggest, heaviest vehicle sent to Mars yet - no small feat - scientists have planned an ambitious mission for exploration of the Red Planet's surface and col ... more 
'7 minutes of terror': Perserverance rover's nail-biting landing phaseWashington (AFP) Feb 18, 2021 Seven months after blast-off, NASA's Mars 2020 mission will have to negotiate its shortest and most intense phase on Thursday: the "seven minutes of terror" it takes to slam the brakes and land the Perseverance rover on a narrow target on the planet's surface. ... more 
Searching for life in NASA's Perseverance Mars samplesPasadena CA (JPL) Feb 18, 2021 NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover will be the agency's ninth mission to land on the Red Planet. Along with characterizing the planet's geology and climate, and paving the way for human exploration ... more |
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 Skoltech's recent achievement takes us one step closer to Mars 
NASA ready to land another rover on MarsPasadena CA (JPL) Feb 17, 2021 With about 2.4 million miles (3.9 million kilometers) left to travel in space, NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance mission is days away from attempting to land the agency's fifth rover on the Red Planet. ... more  |
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Staying long-term on Mars Bremen, Germany (SPX) Feb 17, 2021 The "red planet" in the evening sky seems more and more within reach, as leading space agencies aspire astronaut missions to Mars in the future. Unlike the 1969 moon landing, these missions are desi ... more 
The Mars Relay Network Connects Us to NASA's Martian ExplorersPasadena CA (JPL) Feb 17, 2021 A tightly choreographed dance between NASA's Deep Space Network and Mars orbiters will keep the agency's Perseverance in touch with Earth during landing and beyond. When NASA's Mars 2020 Perseveranc ... more 
The geological context of the Mars 2020 landing site through the eyes of DLRBerlin, Germany (DLR) Feb 17, 2021 On Thursday, 18 February 2021, at approximately 21:55 CET, NASA's control centre in Pasadena should receive the radio signal indicating that the Perseverance rover has been gently lowered onto the s ... more 
Biotech fit for the Red PlanetWashington DC (SPX) Feb 17, 2021 NASA, in collaboration with other leading space agencies, aims to send its first human missions to Mars in the early 2030s, while companies like SpaceX may do so even earlier. Astronauts on Mars wil ... more 
HKU planetary scientists discover evidence for a reduced atmosphere on ancient MarsHong Kong (SPX) Feb 17, 2021 Both Earth and Mars currently have oxidising atmospheres, which is why iron-rich materials in daily life develop rust (a common name for iron oxide) during the oxidation reaction of iron and oxygen. ... more |
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 Eugene OR (SPX) Feb 19, 2021 
Friction caused by dry Martian dust particles making contact with each other may produce electrical discharge at the surface and in the planet's atmosphere, according University of Oregon researchers.
However, such sparks are likely to be small and pose little danger to future robotic or human missions to the red planet, they report in a paper published online and scheduled to appear in th ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Feb 12, 2021 
Given plans for future manned missions to the Moon - and interest in the potential for longer-term lunar habitation - the presence of water on the Moon is of critical importance. Studies over the last few decades have revealed water lurking on our satellite in numerous forms. But how does it get there?
Lunar water has been found locked in ice form in the cold, permanently shadowed craters ... more |
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 Manoa HI (SPX) Feb 11, 2021 
A team, including an astronomer from the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy (IfA), have confirmed a planetoid that is almost four times farther from the Sun than Pluto, making it the most distant object ever observed in our solar system. The planetoid, nicknamed "Farfarout," was first detected in 2018, and the team has now collected enough observations to pin down the orbit. The Minor ... more |
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 Zurich, Switzerland (SPX) Feb 18, 2021 
In the search for planets capable of sustaining life, an international research team with members from ETH has taken a significant step forward. As the researchers reported recently in the journal Nature Communications, they found signs of a Neptune-sized planet in the Alpha Centauri star system, a mere 4.4 light years away from Earth.
This exoplanet is located in a zone that may offer sui ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Feb 16, 2021 
Russia is going to carry out more than 10 launches of Soyuz-2 carrier rockets from the Baikonur cosmodrome this year, Ruslan Mukhamedzhanov, the head of the Centre for the Operation of Ground-Based Space Infrastructure Facilities, said on Monday.
"Twelve launches will be carried out from this site [in 2021]. These are federal launches, and commercial launches [in the interests of UK commun ... more |
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 Nanjing, China (XNA) Feb 12, 2021 
China's tracking vessel Yuanwang-6 on Wednesday departed from a port in east China's Jiangsu Province for maritime spacecraft monitoring missions in the Indian Ocean.
The Yuanwang fleet will continue to carry out intensive and challenging maritime missions this year, and Yuanwang-6 alone will operate at sea for over 200 days, according to sources with the country's satellite maritime track ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Feb 16, 2021 
It was tens of miles wide and forever changed history when it crashed into Earth about 66 million years ago.
The Chicxulub impactor, as it's known, left behind a crater off the coast of Mexico that spans 93 miles and goes 12 miles deep. Its devastating impact brought the reign of the dinosaurs to an abrupt and calamitous end by triggering their sudden mass extinction, along with the end of ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Feb 17, 2021 
Further experiments in directed energy weapons - which use of lasers and microwaves to intercept hostile airborne objects - are expected in 2021, the U.S. Air Force said on Wednesday.
A one-year assessment of the High Energy Laser Weapon System 2, or HELWS2, made by Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems, began in spring 2020, with a second test expected 6 to 12 months after it is comple ... more |
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 Washington DC (DOD) Feb 19, 2021 
The Israel Missile Defense Organization (IMDO), in the Directorate of Defense Research and Development of the Israel Ministry of Defense, and the U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) have begun the development of the Arrow 4 interceptor. Arrow 4 will be the next generation of endo-exoatmospheric interceptors for the Arrow Weapon System, which today consists of Arrow 2 and Arrow 3 interceptors.
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 Paris, France (SPX) Jan 22, 2021 
Rather like David versus Goliath, it appears that Saturn's tilt may in fact be caused by its moons. This is the conclusion of recent work carried out by scientists from the CNRS, Sorbonne University and the University of Pisa, which shows that the current tilt of Saturn's rotation axis is caused by the migration of its satellites, and especially by that of its largest moon, Titan.
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 Boston MA (SPX) Feb 12, 2021 
Superconductors - materials that conduct electricity without resistance - are remarkable. They provide a macroscopic glimpse into quantum phenomena, which are usually observable only at the atomic level. Beyond their physical peculiarity, superconductors are also useful. They're found in medical imaging, quantum computers, and cameras used with telescopes.
But superconducting devices can b ... more |
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 New York NY (SPX) Feb 12, 2021 
A description of gravity compatible with the principles of quantum mechanics has long been a widely pursued goal in physics. Existing theories of this 'quantum gravity' often involve mathematical corrections to Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle (HUP), which quantifies the inherent limits in the accuracy of any quantum measurement.
These corrections arise when gravitational interactions ar ... more |
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 Lancaster UK (SPX) Feb 15, 2021 
Fast and energy-efficient future data processing technologies are on the horizon after an international team of scientists successfully manipulated magnets at the atomic level.
Physicist Dr Rostislav Mikhaylovskiy from Lancaster University said: "With stalling efficiency trends of current technology, new scientific approaches are especially valuable. Our discovery of the atomically-driven ... more |
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 Ithaca NY (SPX) Feb 12, 2021 
Soft robots may not be in touch with human feelings, but they are getting better at feeling human touch. Cornell University researchers have created a low-cost method for soft, deformable robots to detect a range of physical interactions, from pats to punches to hugs, without relying on touch at all. Instead, a USB camera located inside the robot captures the shadow movements of hand gestures on ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Feb 16, 2021 
The NATO AGS RQ-4D remotely piloted aircraft has reached initial operational readiness, according to Gen. Tod Wolters, NATO's Supreme Allied Commander.
The AGS system enables NATO to perform persistent surveillance over wide areas from high-altitude long-endurance aircraft at considerable distances, according to NATO.
All 30 NATO allies will have access to the intelligence the ra ... more |
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