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  Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 30, 2021 Where there's water, there's life. That's the case on Earth, at least, and also why scientists remain tantalized by any evidence suggesting there's liquid water on cold, dry Mars. The Red Planet is a difficult place to look for liquid water: While water ice is plentiful, any water warm enough to be liquid on the surface would last for only a few moments before turning into vapor in Mars' wispy air. Hence the interest generated in 2018, when a team led by Roberto Orosei of Italy's Istituto Nazional ... read more |
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Earthly rocks point way to water hidden on MarsUniversity Park PA (SPX) Jul 30, 2021 A combination of a once-debunked 19th-century identification of a water-carrying iron mineral and the fact that these rocks are extremely common on Earth, suggests the existence of a substantial wat ... more  
Wearable brain-machine interface turns intentions into actionsAtlanta GA (SPX) Jul 27, 2021 A new wearable brain-machine interface (BMI) system could improve the quality of life for people with motor dysfunction or paralysis, even those struggling with locked-in syndrome - when a person is ... more  
Red bodies similar to Kuiper objects found in main asteroid beltTokyo, Japan (SPX) Jul 28, 2021 Two asteroids (203 Pompeja and 269 Justitia) have been discovered with a redder spectrum than any other object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. The discovery was led by HASEGAWA Sunao, ... more  
Bezos offers NASA a $2 billion discount for Blue Origin Moon landerWashington (AFP) July 26, 2021 Blue Origin owner Jeff Bezos wrote an open letter to NASA on Monday offering a $2 billion discount to allow his company to build a Moon lander. ... more |
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Medspace: Setting sights high for interplanetary health kitsLondon, UK (SPX) Jul 28, 2021 Just over a week after Richard Branson flew to the edge of space, fellow billionaire Jeff Bezos set-off on his own high-stakes trip onboard Blue Origin's Shepard Rocket. The trip was a success, with ... more 
Apollo to Artemis: Drilling on the MoonKennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Jul 27, 2021 Fifty years ago, Apollo 15 lifted off from Kennedy Space Center, sending Commander David R. Scott, Command Module Pilot Alfred M. Worden, and Lunar Module Pilot James B. Irwin on the first of three ... more  
Hubble finds first evidence of water vapor on GanymedeWashington DC (SPX) Jul 27, 2021 For the first time, astronomers have uncovered evidence of water vapor in the atmosphere of Jupiter's moon Ganymede. This water vapor forms when ice from the moon's surface sublimates - that is, tur ... more 
Mini radar could scan the Moon for water and habitable tunnelsMelbourne, Australia (SPX) Jul 24, 2021 A miniature device that scans deep below ground is being developed to identify ice deposits and hollow lava tubes on the Moon for possible human settlement. The prototype device, known as MAPr ... more 
Insight data offers clues to Mars' deep interior, formation in solar systemWashington DC (UPI) Jul 23, 2021 Marsquake data collected by NASA's InSight lander has allowed planetary scientists to more accurately characterize Mars' deep interior, as well as offered clues to the Red Planet's origins. ... more |
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Better understanding of Earth's atmospheric chemistry from studying Mars?Paris (ESA) Jul 24, 2021 Long-term studies of ozone and water vapour in the atmosphere of Mars could lead to better understanding of atmospheric chemistry for the Earth. A new analysis of data from ESA's Mars Express missio ... more 
The Red Planet has a larger core and a thinner crustBerlin, Germany (SPX) Jul 24, 2021 Mars' surface is known in great detail through exploration using orbiting spacecraft. But until now its interior structure could only be derived indirectly or simulated using computational models. W ... more 
The anatomy of a planetZurich, Switzerland (SPX) Jul 24, 2021 Since early 2019, researchers have been recording and analysing marsquakes as part of the InSight mission. This relies on a seismometer whose data acquisition and control electronics were developed ... more 
InSight mission: Mars unveiledParis, France (SPX) Jul 24, 2021 Using information obtained from around a dozen earthquakes detected on Mars by the Very Broad Band SEIS seismometer, developed in France, the international team of NASA's InSight mission has unveile ... more 
China's Mars rover travels 585 meters on red planetBeijing (XNA) Jul 24, 2021 China's Mars rover Zhurong has traveled 585 meters on the surface of the red planet as of Friday, according to the Lunar Exploration and Space Program Center of the China National Space Administrati ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Jul 24, 2021 
China's Mars rover Zhurong has traveled 585 meters on the surface of the red planet as of Friday, according to the Lunar Exploration and Space Program Center of the China National Space Administration.
On Friday, the Mars orbiter marked its first anniversary of operation. Now it is about 378 million km away from Earth. The delay of its one-way communication was around 21 minutes, said the ... more |
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 Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Jul 27, 2021 
Fifty years ago, Apollo 15 lifted off from Kennedy Space Center, sending Commander David R. Scott, Command Module Pilot Alfred M. Worden, and Lunar Module Pilot James B. Irwin on the first of three Apollo "J" missions.
These missions gave astronauts the opportunity to explore the Moon for longer periods using upgraded and more plentiful scientific instruments than ever before. Apollo 15 wa ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jul 27, 2021 
For the first time, astronomers have uncovered evidence of water vapor in the atmosphere of Jupiter's moon Ganymede. This water vapor forms when ice from the moon's surface sublimates - that is, turns from solid to gas.
Scientists used new and archival datasets from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to make the discovery, published in the journal Nature Astronomy.
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 Cambridge UK (SPX) Jul 28, 2021 
Astronomers have developed the most realistic model to date of planet formation in binary star systems.
The researchers, from the University of Cambridge and the Max Planck Institute for Extra-terrestrial Physics, have shown how exoplanets in binary star systems - such as the 'Tatooine' planets spotted by NASA's Kepler Space Telescope - came into being without being destroyed in their chao ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jul 30, 2021 
Producing rapid and accurate images on missions to the Moon, Mars and other terrestrial destinations is crucial for a safe descent and landing. A NASA project called Safe and Precise Landing - Integrated Capabilities Evolution, or SPLICE, includes a key element that will help ensure a clearer touchdown site.
The SPLICE team recently performed a dynamic test of the hazard detection lidar (H ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Jul 27, 2021 
Three Chinese astronauts have been living and working in China's space station core module Tianhe for more than a month. They are scheduled to stay in space for three months.
The astronauts have been exercising, maintaining healthy diets and undergoing regular check-ups to reduce the effects of living in a microgravity environment.
Scientists have found that microgravity weakens both ... more |
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 San Antonio TX (SPX) Jul 30, 2021 
The impactor believed to have wiped out the dinosaurs and other life forms on Earth some 66 million years ago likely came from the outer half of the main asteroid belt, a region previously thought to produce few impactors.
Researchers from Southwest Research Institute have shown that the processes that deliver large asteroids to Earth from that region occur at least 10 times more frequentl ... more |
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 Jerusalem (AFP) June 21, 2021 
Israel has used an airborne laser to shoot down drones in a series of tests, officials said Monday, calling it a "milestone" to update its already powerful defence systems.
During the tests, which took place "over the last week," a prototype of the high-power laser system carried on a small civilian plane "successfully intercepted several UAVs", said Yaniv Rotem, head of the defence ministry ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jul 27, 2021 
The U.S. Missile Defense Agency, in cooperation with the U.S. Navy, conducted Flight Test Aegis Weapon System 33 in the broad ocean area northwest of Hawaii, July 24.
The objective of FTM-33 was to intercept a raid of two Short Range Ballistic Missile targets with four Standard Missile-6 Dual II missiles.
Based on initial observations, one target was successfully intercepted. At this ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jul 12, 2021 
Tidal stresses may be causing constant icequakes on Saturn's sixth largest moon Enceladus, a world of interest in the search for life beyond Earth, according to a new study. A better understanding of seismic activity could reveal what's under the moon's icy crust and provide clues to the habitability of its ocean.
Enceladus is about 500 kilometers in diameter and almost entirely covered in ... more |
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 Pohang, South Korea (SPX) Jul 28, 2021 
Based on the principle of interaction between matter and light, a new method has been developed to track and observe the Brownian motion of fast-moving nanometer-sized molecules, and measure the different fluorescence signals of each biological nanoparticle.
The nanoparticle tracking analysis (NTA) system is the most commonly used nanoparticle quantification method in the world. It is a me ... more |
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 Nashville TN (SPX) Jul 22, 2021 
Vanderbilt astrophysicist Karan Jani has led a series of studies that make the first case for a gravitational wave infrastructure on the surface of the moon. The experiment, dubbed Gravitational-Wave Lunar Observatory for Cosmology, uses the moon's environment and geocentric orbit to analyze mergers of black holes, neuron stars and dark matter candidates within almost 70 percent of the entire ob ... more |
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 New York NY (SPX) Jul 28, 2021 
Magnetic fields around black holes decay quickly, report researchers from the Flatiron Institute, Columbia University and Princeton University. This finding backs up the so-called 'no-hair conjecture' predicted by Einstein's general relativity.
Black holes aren't what they eat. Einstein's general relativity predicts that no matter what a black hole consumes, its external properties depend ... more |
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 Atlanta GA (SPX) Jul 27, 2021 
A new wearable brain-machine interface (BMI) system could improve the quality of life for people with motor dysfunction or paralysis, even those struggling with locked-in syndrome - when a person is fully conscious but unable to move or communicate.
A multi-institutional, international team of researchers led by the lab of Woon-Hong Yeo at the Georgia Institute of Technology combined wirel ... more |
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 Wright-Patterson AFB OH (SPX) Jul 30, 2021 
Air Force Research Laboratory engineers prepared the XQ-58A Valkyrie Tail #1 to be transferred to the National Museum of the United States Air Force here June 1.
The XQ-58A Valkyrie is a low cost, high performance unmanned air vehicle. Tail #1 was the first aircraft developed in partnership between AFRL and Kratos Defense and Security Solutions, Inc. to be a part of AFRL's Low Cost Attrita ... more |
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