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Prolific Mars Orbiter Completes 50,000 Orbits![]() ![]() Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 31, 2017 The most data-productive spacecraft yet at Mars swept past its 50,000th orbit this week, continuing to compile the most sharp-eyed global coverage ever accomplished by a camera at the Red Planet. In addition, the spacecraft - NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) - recently aided preparations for NASA's next mission to Mars, the InSight lander. Insight will launch next year on a mission to study the planet's deep interior. Meanwhile, the orbiter continues diverse science observations of Mars an ... read more |
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![]() Edwards AFB CA (SPX) Mar 31, 2017 Flight tests have resumed on subscale aircraft that could one day observe the Martian atmosphere and a variant that will improve collection of Earth's weather data. Work on the shape of the ai ... more ![]() ![]() Boulder CO (SPX) Mar 31, 2017 Solar wind and radiation are responsible for stripping the Martian atmosphere, transforming Mars from a planet that could have supported life billions of years ago into a frigid desert world, accord ... more ![]() ![]() San Francisco (AFP) March 28, 2017 Not content to reach for Mars and dethrone fossil fuels, tech entrepreneur Elon Musk on Tuesday is turning his focus to delving into people's minds. ... more ![]() ![]() Paris (ESA) Mar 29, 2017 Two ancient sites on Mars that hosted an abundance of water in the planet's early history have been recommended as the final candidates for the landing site of the 2020 ExoMars rover and surface sci ... more |
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![]() Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 27, 2017 Weaving processes created millennia ago are part of the most cutting-edge technology on NASA's Orion spaceship that may one day shield humans from heat as they ride all the way to Mars and back. Tha ... more ![]() ![]() Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 27, 2017 Opportunity is just outside the rim of Endeavour Crater, heading to the gully, named 'Perseverance Valley.' The large regional dust storm to the west of the rover's site has started to abate, althou ... more ![]() ![]() Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 23, 2017 A routine check of the aluminum wheels on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has found two small breaks on the rover's left middle wheel-the latest sign of wear and tear as the rover continues its journey, ... more ![]() ![]() Washington DC (SPX) Mar 23, 2017 NASA has selected ten studies under the Planetary Science Deep Space SmallSat Studies (PSDS3) program, to develop mission concepts using small satellites to investigate Venus, Earth's moon, asteroid ... more ![]() ![]() Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 21, 2017 New NASA research reveals that the giant Martian volcano Arsia Mons produced one new lava flow at its summit every 1 to 3 million years during the final peak of activity. The last volcanic activity ... more ![]() ![]() Washington (AFP) March 21, 2017 President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed a law that said manned missions to deep space, including to Mars, would be the US space agency's main goal in the decades to come. ... more |
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![]() ![]() Does Mars Have Rings? Not Right Now, But Maybe One Day ![]() ![]() Paris (ESA) Mar 17, 2017 The ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter has completed another set of important science calibration tests before a year of aerobraking gets underway. The mission was launched a year ago this week, and has been ... more ![]() ![]() Moffett Field Ca (SPX) Mar 15, 2017 Due to its extreme dryness, the Atacama Desert in Chile is one of the most important environments on Earth for researchers who need to approximate the conditions of Mars. Working in 90-plus-de ... more ![]() ![]() Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 13, 2017 A regional dust storm currently swelling on Mars follows unusually closely on one that blossomed less than two weeks earlier and is now dissipating, as seen in daily global weather monitoring by NAS ... more ![]() ![]() Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 13, 2017 Opportunity is located just outside the rim of Endeavour Crater, less than half a mile (700 meters) away from the next big science objective, a gully. The rover completed the last in-situ scie ... more |
![]() Providence RI (SPX) Mar 30, 2017 ![]() ![]() ![]() Surviving the long dark night of the Moon ![]() ![]() Team Indus To Send Seven Experiments To The Moon Including Three From India ![]() ![]() Sun Devils working for a chance to induce photosynthesis on our lunar neighbor |
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![]() Nanjing (XNA) Mar 31, 2017 ![]() ![]() ![]() China Develops Spaceship Capable of Moon Landing ![]() ![]() Long March-7 Y2 ready for launch of China's first cargo spacecraft ![]() ![]() China Seeks Space Rockets Launched from Airplanes |
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![]() Chincoteague Island, VA (SPX) Oct 31, 2016 ![]() ![]() ![]() Orbital cargo ship arrives at space station ![]() ![]() New Instrument on ISS to Study Ultra-Cold Quantum Gases ![]() ![]() Two Russians, one American blast off to ISS |
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![]() Washington DC (SPX) Apr 04, 2017 ![]() ![]() ![]() ANU leads public search for Planet X ![]() ![]() Juno Spacecraft Set for Fifth Jupiter Flyby ![]() ![]() Scientists make the case to restore Pluto's planet status |
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![]() Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 30, 2017 ![]() ![]() ![]() The electric sands of Titan ![]() ![]() Titan is covered by electrically charged sand grains, experiments suggest ![]() ![]() Cassini Sees Heat Below the Icy Surface of Enceladus |
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![]() Durham NC (SPX) Mar 29, 2017 ![]() ![]() ![]() Japan counts down to cherry blossom fever ![]() ![]() NASA spacecraft investigate clues in radiation belts ![]() ![]() Extreme weather events linked to climate change impact on the jet stream |
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![]() Moscow (Sputnik) Apr 04, 2017 ![]() ![]() ![]() United Launch Alliance Completes Crew Emergency Egress System ![]() ![]() Space Traffic Management at Mach 25 ![]() ![]() Spacewalkers Connect Adapter for Commercial Crew Vehicles |
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![]() Pasadena CA (SPX) Mar 31, 2017 ![]() ![]() ![]() Viruses in the oceanic basement ![]() ![]() Sun's UV Light Helped Spark Life ![]() ![]() Astronomers identify purest, most massive brown dwarf |
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![]() Beijing, China (SPX) Mar 29, 2017 ![]() ![]() ![]() General Atomics building ground control station for drones ![]() ![]() China to open first drone factory in Saudi Arabia ![]() ![]() Happy Wanderer? Mysterious X-37B Space Plane Breaks Its Own Orbital Record |
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![]() Boston MA (SPX) Mar 31, 2017 ![]() ![]() ![]() Waves on sun give NASA new insight into space weather forecasting ![]() ![]() Sunrise 2: A Second Look At The Sun ![]() ![]() Large-scale planetary waves found on the sun |
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![]() Washington (Sputnik) Apr 04, 2017 ![]() ![]() ![]() Evolution of Arianespace governance ensures greater coherence with Airbus Safran Launchers ![]() ![]() SpaceX hails 'revolution' after recycled rocket launch, landing ![]() ![]() Kremlin Believes Russia Can Compete With Private Firms Like SpaceX in Space |
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![]() London, UK (SPX) Mar 31, 2017 ![]() ![]() ![]() Reading between the lines of highly turbulent plasmas ![]() ![]() Mysterious bursts of energy do come from outer space ![]() ![]() Seeing the Whole Galaxy with a 'Second Eye on the Sky' |
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![]() Zurich, Switzerland (SPX) Mar 01, 2017 ![]() ![]() ![]() 'Gravitational noise' interferes with determining distant sources ![]() ![]() New method uses heat flow to levitate variety of objects ![]() ![]() Increasing the sensitivity of next-generation gravitational wave detectors |
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![]() Washington DC (SPX) Mar 29, 2017 ![]() ![]() ![]() In a quantum race everyone is both a winner and a loser ![]() ![]() Timing a Space Laser With a NASA-style Stopwatch ![]() ![]() New research into light particles challenges understanding of quantum theory |
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![]() Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 04, 2017 ![]() ![]() ![]() Electronic synapses that can learn: towards an artificial brain? ![]() ![]() AM General, Army to test autonomous vehicle system ![]() ![]() Printable device points toward sensor-laden robot skin |
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![]() Nanjing (XNA) Mar 31, 2017 ![]() ![]() ![]() China Develops Spaceship Capable of Moon Landing ![]() ![]() Long March-7 Y2 ready for launch of China's first cargo spacecraft ![]() ![]() China Seeks Space Rockets Launched from Airplanes |
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