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Protection for Moon, Mars astronauts eyedDarmstadt, Germany (UPI) Sep 18, 2012 Rocks on the Moon or Mars could be used to build shelters to possibly protect astronauts from dangerous cosmic radiation, European researchers say. German scientists working with the European Space Agency have tested how well stone slabs can protect against radiation, a release from the GSI Helmholtz Center for Heavy Ion Research said Monday. The findings are important because astronauts would be more exposed to radiation because neither a magnetic field nor a thick atmosphere protects t ... read more |
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  Opportunity Begins Examining Clay Minerals Opportunity has begun the in-situ (contact) science campaign at a putative location of clay minerals at the inboard edge of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour Crater. Earlier, Opportunity had d ... more | .. |
  Curious About Life: Interview with Chris McKay In this interview, Chris McKay describes how he'll use two of Curiosity Rover's instruments: he'll help determine what ChemCam should focus its laser on, and then compare the organic analysis by the ... more | .. |
 India to launch Mars mission in 2013: official India plans to launch a space probe that will orbit Mars in November 2013, a senior official from the country's space research establishment said on Monday. ... more | .. |
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 Squyres Warns Congress of Threats to Mars Program Prof. Steve Squyres '78 Ph.D. '81, astronomy, told a Senate committee on Wednesday that U.S. space exploration programs risk significant delays and setbacks because they are severely underfunded. De ... more | .. |
 NASA Mars Rover Opportunity Reveals Geological Mystery NASA's long-lived rover Opportunity has returned an image of the Martian surface that is puzzling researchers. Spherical objects concentrated at an outcrop Opportunity reached last week differ in se ... more | .. |
 Mars Rover Spectrometer Finishes Calibration-Target Reading On Sol 35 of its mission on Mars (Sept. 10, 2012) Curiosity continued activities for characterizing its arm and the tools on the arm. The Alpha Particle X-Ray Spectrometer (APXS) completed a r ... more | .. |
 Mars Rover Curiosity Arm Tests Nearly Complete NASA's Mars Curiosity team has almost finished robotic arm tests in preparation for the rover to touch and examine its first Martian rock. Tests with the 7-foot (2.1-meter) arm have allowed th ... more |
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 Aging Mars rover discovers geological mystery NASA's Opportunity rover, older brother to the Curiosity rover that landed on Mars last month, has made a new discovery that geologists find both puzzling and exciting, the US space agency said Friday. ... more | .. |
 NASA Mars Rover Curiosity's Arm Wields Camera Well NASA's Mars rover Curiosity stepped through activities on Sept. 7, 8 and 9 designed to check and characterize precision movements by the rover's robotic arm and use of tools on the arm. The activiti ... more | .. |
 Next Mars Mission Enters Final Phase Before Launch NASA's Mars Atmosphere And Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) mission has passed a critical milestone, Key Decision Point-D or KDP-D. The project is officially authorized to transition into the next phase o ... more | .. |
 Curious about Life: Interview with Danny Glavin The Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover has 10 science instruments, and each will be used in the coming weeks and months to help characterize the environment of Mars and determine if the planet ... more |
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Mars rover Curiosity working 'flawlessly': NASA NASA's Curiosity rover, which landed on Mars more than a month ago, appears to be working "flawlessly" as it prepares to continue its two-year exploration of the Red Planet, the US space agency said Wednesday. ... more | .. |
 Lockheed Martin Begins Final Assembly of NASA's MAVEN Spacecraft Lockheed Martin has begun the assembly, test and launch operations (ATLO) phase for NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) spacecraft. MAVEN is scheduled to launch in November 2013 an ... more | .. |
 NASA Observations Point to 'Dry Ice' Snowfall on Mars NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter data have given scientists the clearest evidence yet of carbon-dioxide snowfalls on Mars. This reveals the only known example of carbon-dioxide snow falling anywhe ... more | .. |
 Early Mars may not have been hospitable after all: study Instead of a warm, wet and possibly life-bearing planet as some scientists contend, early Mars may have been a hostile and volatile place with frequent volcanic outbursts, a study said Sunday. ... more |
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As world burns, India's Amitav Ghosh writes for the future
Fire on Ice: The Arctic's Changing Fire Regime
Cosmic krypton timestamps reveal Australia landscape evolution and resources | .. |
 India: From Ferrying Rockets on Cycles to Eyeing Mars From the days of having a church as control room, the bishop's house as office, a bicycle as ferry, naked eyes to track the smoke plume at Thumba in Kerala, converting a toilet into a satellite data ... more | .. |
 Hadley Crater - closing in on the Martian interior Hadley Crater on Mars has been subject to several impacts by large asteroids in the course of its history. The 'craters within a crater' formed in this way give us a view over two kilometres into th ... more | .. |
Indian PM defends spending on space exploration Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Sunday defended spending millions of dollars on space exploration despite many people in the country living in grinding poverty. ... more | .. |
 NASA Mars Rover Curiosity Begins Arm-Work Phase After driving more than a football field's length since landing, NASA's Mars rover Curiosity is spending several days preparing for full use of the tools on its arm. Curiosity extended its robotic a ... more |
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 Mars's dramatic climate variations are driven by the Sun On Mars's poles there are ice caps of ice and dust with layers that reflect to past climate variations on Mars. Researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute have related the layers in the ice cap on Ma ... more | .. |
 Northrop Grumman Aids Navigation of NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover Northrop Grumman supplied the navigation and pointing aid for NASA's Curiosity Mars rover, which recently began a historic two-year exploration of Mars. Northrop Grumman's LN-200S is a lightweight, ... more | .. |
NASA's Mars rover parked to test robotic arm NASA's Curiosity rover has temporarily halted its journey across the surface of Mars as it tests the tools on its robotic arm, the US space agency said Thursday. ... more | .. |
  Dawn Of A New Mission To Proto Planet Ceres An interplanetary spaceship left Earth in 2007. Propelling itself gently and patiently through the solar system with a blue-green beam of xenon ions, it gradually spiraled away from the sun. It sail ... more |
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 Curiosity Has a Photo Day Curiosity took a sol off from driving and spent time during the mission's Sol 25, on Aug. 31, 2012, taking images and collecting environmental monitoring data. Imaging tasks for the sol included Nav ... more | .. |
  Moles, crabs and Moon dust: DLR at the ILA Space Pavilion Satellites with electric propulsion, a 'mole' for exploring the Martian subsurface, a mobile robot that moves sideways like a crab, a pinch of Moon dust and a hands-on medical experiment where test ... more | .. |
 Marks of Laser Exam on Martian Soil The Chemistry and Camera (ChemCam) instrument on NASA's Mars rover Curiosity used its laser to examine side-by-side points in a target patch of soil, leaving the marks apparent in this before-and-af ... more | .. |
 Opportunity Exceeds 35 Kilometers of Driving! Opportunity has exceeded over 35 kilometers (21.75 miles) of odometry! The rover is moving south along the inboard edge of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour Crater surveying exposed outcrop in ... more |
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 Opportunity Drives And Images Rock Outcrop Opportunity is moving south along the inboard edge of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour Crater. On Sol 3044 (Aug. 16, 2012), the rover drove just over 131 feet (40 meters) staying close to the ... more | .. |
 NASA Curiosity Rover Begins Eastbound Trek on Martian Surface NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has set off from its landing vicinity on a trek to a science destination about a quarter mile (400 meters) away, where it may begin using its drill. The rover drove eastw ... more | .. |
 Rover Leaves Tracks in Morse Code NASA's Curiosity rover took its first test stroll Wednesday Aug. 22, 2012, and beamed back pictures of its accomplishment in the form of track marks in the Martian soil. Careful inspection of the tr ... more | .. |
  Outside View: Artificial Intelligence In the NASA video called "Seven Minutes of Terror," which famously went viral over the last month, Tom Rivellini, one of the engineers in charge of the landing, outlines its eye-popping difficulty. ... more |
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