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  Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 05, 2021 Ask any space explorer, and they'll have a favorite photo or two from their mission. For Kevin Hand, a scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California and co-lead of the Perseverance rover's first science campaign, his latest favorite is a 3D image of low-lying wrinkles in the surface of Jezero Crater. The science team calls this area "Raised Ridges." NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter captured the two shots for this stereo image on July 24 during its 10th flight. Ingenuity capt ... read more |
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NASA identifies likely locations of the early molten Moon's deep secretsGreenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 05, 2021 Shortly after it formed, the Moon was covered in a global ocean of molten rock (magma). As the magma ocean cooled and solidified, dense minerals sank to form the mantle layer, while less-dense miner ... more 
North-By-Northwest for Ingenuity's 11th FlightPasadena CA (JPL) Aug 05, 2021 We're heading northwest for the 11th flight of NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter, which will happen no earlier than Wednesday night, Aug. 4. The mission profile is designed to stay ahead of the rover ... more  
Juno joins Japan's Hisaki satellite and Keck Observatory to solve "energy crisis" on JupiterGreenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 05, 2021 Sitting more than five times the distance from the Sun as Earth, Jupiter is not expected to be particularly warm. Based on the amount of sunlight received, the average temperature in the planet's up ... more  
Lucy boxed to goKennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Aug 03, 2021 NASA's first spacecraft to explore the Trojan asteroids arrived Friday, July 30, at the agency's Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida. It is now in a cleanroom at nearby Astrotech, ready to begin f ... more |
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World's first commercial re-programmable satellite blasts into spaceKourou (AFP) July 30, 2021 The world's first commercial fully re-programmable satellite lifted off from French Guiana on Friday on board an Ariane 5 rocket, ushering in a new era of more flexible communications. ... more 
Government watchdog denies protests of SpaceX's lunar lander contractWashington DC (UPI) Jul 30, 2021 A U.S. government watchdog denied protests Friday of NASA's nearly $3 billion contract award to Elon Musk's SpaceX to build a lunar lander for astronaut missions. ... more 
Clays, not water, are likely source of Martian lakesPasadena 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 ... more 
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 
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 |
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Zhurong marks 1st anniversary since launch with dune explorationBeijing (XNA) Jul 27, 2021 China's Zhurong Mars rover finished exploring a sand dune on the red planet on the first anniversary of the launch of the country's first interplanetary expedition, the China National Space Administ ... more  
Astronomers show how planets form in binary systems without getting crushedCambridge 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 ... more  
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 
The truth about space traffic managementBethesda, MD (SPX) Aug 03, 2021 Those familiar with air traffic management architectures understand the constraints of aircraft flying in the atmosphere, vehicle dynamics and command and control techniques. Unfortunately, space tr ... more |
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 University 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 water reservoir on Mars, according to a team of geoscientists.
"One of my student's experiments was to crystalize hematite," said Peter J. Heaney, professor of geosciences, Penn State. "She came up ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 05, 2021 
Shortly after it formed, the Moon was covered in a global ocean of molten rock (magma). As the magma ocean cooled and solidified, dense minerals sank to form the mantle layer, while less-dense minerals floated to form the surface crust. Later intense bombardment by massive asteroids and comets punched through the crust, blasting out pieces of mantle and scattering them across the lunar surface. ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 05, 2021 
Sitting more than five times the distance from the Sun as Earth, Jupiter is not expected to be particularly warm. Based on the amount of sunlight received, the average temperature in the planet's upper atmosphere should be about minus 100 degrees Fahrenheit or a chilly minus 73 Celsius. Instead, the measured value soars to around 800 degrees Fahrenheit or 426 Celsius. The source of this extra he ... more |
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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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 Washington DC (UPI) Aug 3, 2021 
Boeing postponed the launch of its Starliner spacecraft Tuesday due to problems detected with valves in the capsule's propulsion system and reset a potential launch for Wednesday midday.
"We are off for today. Recycling for tomorrow," Tory Bruno, CEO of rocket company United Launch Alliance tweeted Tuesday morning.
ULA had planned to launch an Atlas V rocket carrying the uncrewed ... more |
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 Shanghai (AFP) July 30, 2021 
China has opened the doors on what it bills as the world's largest planetarium, a slick new Shanghai facility showcasing the nation's recent extra-terrestrial exploits while notably downplaying those of space pioneers like the United States.
Beijing has spent much of this year bombarding the public with news of the country's rising space prowess, part of a larger propaganda blitz highlightin ... more |
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 London, Canada (SPX) Jul 28, 2021 
As billionaires battle it out in a space race that only a handful of the world's richest persons can play, a highly inclusive international project is looking in the other direction - what's flying towards Earth - and all are welcome.
Led by Western University's Denis Vida, the Global Meteor Network (GMN) is a collection of more than 450 video meteor cameras hosted by amateur astronomers a ... 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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 Moscow (Sputnik) Aug 05, 2021 
Russia's Ministry of Defence released the first-ever video footage of the S-500 surface-to-air missile system last month. The first S-500s will be introduced into Moscow region's air defence troops once combat trials are wrapped up.
Despite the recent impressive gains made by China's domestic military industry in the production of advanced air defences, the country has nothing like the S-5 ... 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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 Adelphi MD (SPX) Aug 03, 2021 
Army researchers developed ground-breaking technology that will enhance how Soldiers and robots communicate and carry out tasks in tactical environments.
This research sets out to develop a natural language understanding, or NLU, pipeline for robots that would be easily ported over to any computational system or agent and incrementally tames the variation that we see in natural language, s ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Aug 2, 2021  The U.S. Air Force seeks prototypes for a microwave-based anti-drone system to be called Mjolnir, referring to the mythical hammer of Thor, it said on Monday.
The Air Force Research Laboratory's Directed Energy Directorate at Kirkland Air Force Base, N.M., will build an advanced version of its THOR, or Tactical High-Powered Operational Responder, which uses "bursts of intense radio wave ... more |
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