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  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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Potential Mars Airplane Resumes FlightEdwards 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 
New MAVEN findings reveal how Mars' atmosphere was lost to spaceBoulder 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  
The long legacy of space-farming leading us to MarsWashington DC (SPX) Apr 02, 2017 Following a new NASA bill, passed in March by the US Congress and which authorizes $19.5 billion spending for space exploration in 2017, manned missions to Mars are closer to reality than ever befor ... more 
Final two ExoMars landing sites chosenParis (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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Musk diving into minds while reaching for MarsSan 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  
Ancient Art of Weaving Ready to Head to Mars and BeyondGreenbelt 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 
Mars dust storm west of Opportunity starting to abatePasadena 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 
Breaks observed in Curiosity rover wheel treadsPasadena 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  
NASA selects CubeSat, SmallSat mission concept studiesWashington 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 
Mars Volcano, Earth's Dinosaurs Went Extinct About the Same TimePasadena 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 |
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 Trump, NASA and a rare consensus: mission to Mars 
Does Mars Have Rings? Not Right Now, But Maybe One DayPasadena CA (JPL) Mar 21, 2017 As children, we learned about our solar system's planets by certain characteristics - Jupiter is the largest, Saturn has rings, Mercury is closest to the sun. Mars is red, but it's possible that one ... more 
ExoMars: science checkout completed and aerobraking beginsParis (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 
Mars Rover Tests Driving, Drilling and Detecting Life in Chile's High DesertMoffett 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
NASA Mars Orbiter Tracks Back-to-Back Regional StormsPasadena 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 |
  Providence RI (SPX) Mar 30, 2017 
While orbiting the Moon in 1971, the crew of Apollo 15 photographed a strange geological feature - a bumpy, D-shaped depression about two miles long and a mile wide - that has fascinated planetary scientists ever since. Some have suggested that the feature, known as Ina, is evidence of a volcanic eruption Moon within the past 100 million years - a billion years or so after most volcanic activity ... more Paris (ESA) Mar 27, 2017Surviving the long dark night of the Moon  Bengaluru, India (IANS) Mar 17, 2017Team Indus To Send Seven Experiments To The Moon Including Three From India  Tempe AZ (SPX) Mar 13, 2017Sun Devils working for a chance to induce photosynthesis on our lunar neighbor |
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 Nanjing (XNA) Mar 31, 2017 
Yuanwang space tracking ships, which follows the progress of satellites and other space-bound craft, will carry out 19 maritime space monitoring missions in 2017, according to the maritime satellite measurement and control authority on Wednesday.
Yuanwang-5 left port Wednesday and Yuanwang-6 started its journey Monday.
Yuanwang-7 and the rocket transporting fleet will set sail in Apr ... more Beijing (Sputnik) Mar 13, 2017China Develops Spaceship Capable of Moon Landing  Wenchang, China (XNA) Mar 13, 2017Long March-7 Y2 ready for launch of China's first cargo spacecraft  Beijing (Sputnik) Mar 09, 2017China Seeks Space Rockets Launched from Airplanes |
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 Chincoteague Island, VA (SPX) Oct 31, 2016 
This week, astronauts are unloading more than 5,000 pounds of cargo and crew supplies from the Cygnus spacecraft to support dozens of science and research investigations. However, this shipment has special significance. This shipment arrived via an Antares rocket from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport's pad 0A at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility.
Rocket launches to the International Space ... moreMiami (AFP) Oct 23, 2016Orbital cargo ship arrives at space station  Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 21, 2016New Instrument on ISS to Study Ultra-Cold Quantum Gases  Baikonur, Kazakhstan (AFP) Oct 19, 2016Two Russians, one American blast off to ISS |
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 Washington (UPI) Apr 4, 2017 
New research suggests Neptune's transition from the inner to the outer solar system was relatively slow and steady. The clues to the nature of Neptune's ancient move were discovered in the Kuiper belt, a massive ring of space debris - mostly icy fragments - lying beyond Neptune's orbit.
Most of the millions of objects in the Kuiper belt are red in color, but a minority of objects are ... more Canberra, Australia (SPX) Mar 31, 2017Four unknown objects being investigated in Planet X  Washington DC (SPX) Apr 04, 2017New Horizons Halfway from Pluto to Next Flyby Target  Canberra, Australia (SPX) Mar 27, 2017ANU leads public search for Planet X |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 30, 2017 
What appears as a pair of bright dashes at the center of this image is one of the features rings scientists have dubbed "propellers."
This particular propeller, named Bleriot, marks the presence of a body that is much larger than the particles that surround it, yet too small to clear out a complete gap in the rings (like Pan and Daphnis) and become a moon in its own right.
Although t ... more Atlanta GA (SPX) Mar 29, 2017The electric sands of Titan  Washington (UPI) Mar 27, 2017Titan is covered by electrically charged sand grains, experiments suggest  Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 15, 2017Cassini Sees Heat Below the Icy Surface of Enceladus |
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 Durham NC (SPX) Mar 29, 2017 
Drought and reduced seasonal flooding of wetlands and farm fields threaten a globally important stopover site for tens of thousands of migratory shorebirds in California's Sacramento Valley, a new Duke University-led study shows.
The researchers' analysis of historical biweekly NASA Landsat satellite images of the valley reveals that flooded habitat near the peak time of spring migration h ... more Boston MA (SPX) Mar 30, 2017Night lights, big data  Mito, Japan (AFP) April 1, 2017Japan counts down to cherry blossom fever  Munich, Germany (SPX) Apr 04, 2017Monitoring pollen using an aircraft |
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 Cape Canaveral AFS FL (SPX) Apr 04, 2017  The final test of the Emergency Egress System (EES) was conducted recently, signifying the completion of another United Launch Alliance (ULA) milestone supporting NASA's Commercial Crew Program. The EES was developed in support of Boeing's Starliner crew capsule and is a means of rapid egress for astronauts in case of an anomaly.
"ULA is absolutely focused on the safety of the crews we wil ... more Houston TX (SPX) Mar 31, 2017Spacewalkers Connect Adapter for Commercial Crew Vehicles  Moscow (Sputnik) Apr 03, 2017Robot Fedor to Guide Russia's Federation Spacecraft in Maiden Flight - Roscosmos  College Park MD (SPX) Mar 31, 2017CRESST Signs $87M Cooperative Agreement with NASA Goddard |
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 Washington (UPI) Apr 4, 2017 
To much fanfare, NASA scientists announced the discovery of seven potentially habitable exoplanets surrounding a nearby red dwarf in February. However, new analysis of TRAPPIST-1 suggests the star system hosts frequent stellar flares. Scientists suggest the flares could negate the possibility of life.
TRAPPIST-1 is located 127 light-years away from Earth. It is a cool red dwarf, or M-dw ... more Pasadena CA (SPX) Mar 31, 2017Inventing Tools for Detecting Life Elsewhere with Future Telescopes  Honolulu HI (SPX) Mar 31, 2017Viruses in the oceanic basement  Santa Barbara CA (SPX) Apr 04, 2017Researchers uncover a potent genetic element in Earth's smallest life forms |
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 Beijing, China (SPX) Mar 29, 2017 
Two PhD students in National University of Singapore, Unmanned System Research Group spent four years in developing the novel hybrid unmanned aerial vehicles(UAV), U-Lion as shown in Figure 1. U-Lion is a hybrid UAV which can take-off and land vertically like helicopter UAVs, and transit to cruise flight like normal airplanes.
The wings can be fully retracted or expended, to favor the stab ... more Washington (UPI) Mar 28, 2017General Atomics building ground control station for drones  Washington (UPI) Mar 27, 2017China to open first drone factory in Saudi Arabia  Moscow (Sputnik) Mar 27, 2017Happy Wanderer? Mysterious X-37B Space Plane Breaks Its Own Orbital Record |
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 Plainsboro NJ (SPX) Apr 04, 2017 
Magnetic reconnection, a universal process that triggers solar flares and northern lights and can disrupt cell phone service and fusion experiments, occurs much faster than theory says that it should. Now researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) and Germany's Max Planck Institute of Plasma Physics have discovered a source of the speed-up in ... more Boston MA (SPX) Mar 31, 2017Next Stop: A Trip Inside the Sun's Atmosphere  Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 02, 2017Waves on sun give NASA new insight into space weather forecasting  Gottingen, Germany (SPX) Mar 28, 2017Sunrise 2: A Second Look At The Sun |
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 Miami (AFP) March 31, 2017 
SpaceX chief Elon Musk hailed a "revolution in spaceflight" on Thursday after blasting off a recycled rocket for the first time, a feat that could dramatically lower the cost of space travel.
Experts cheered the launch and landing of the previously used booster as a "historic" moment for spaceflight, particularly private industry, as companies like SpaceX and its competitors scramble to make ... more Moscow (Sputnik) Apr 03, 2017Kremlin Believes Russia Can Compete With Private Firms Like SpaceX in Space  Washington (Sputnik) Apr 04, 2017US Hardware Production Begins for Money-Saving Next-Generation Rockets  Houston TX (SPX) Mar 31, 2017'Fuzzy' fibers can take rockets' heat |
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Apr 04, 2017 
A mysterious flash of X-rays has been discovered by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory in the deepest X-ray image ever obtained. This source likely comes from some sort of destructive event, but may be of a variety that scientists have never seen before.
"The Chandra telescope," notes Kavli IPMU Principal Investigator Ken'ichi Nomoto, "is designed to detect X-ray emissions from very hot regi ... more London, UK (SPX) Mar 31, 2017Explaining the accelerating expansion of the universe without dark energy  London, UK (SPX) Mar 31, 2017Reading between the lines of highly turbulent plasmas  Melbourne, Australia (SPX) Apr 04, 2017Mysterious bursts of energy do come from outer space |
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 Zurich, Switzerland (SPX) Mar 01, 2017 
Mammalian cells are optimally adapted to gravity. But what happens in the microgravity environment of space if the earth's pull disappears? Previously, many experiments exhibited cell changes - after hours or even days in zero gravity. Astronauts, however, returned to Earth without any severe health problems after long missions in space, which begs the question as to how capable cells are of ada ... more Moscow, Russia (SPX) Feb 22, 2017'Gravitational noise' interferes with determining distant sources  Chicago IL (SPX) Feb 17, 2017New method uses heat flow to levitate variety of objects  Washington DC (SPX) Feb 14, 2017Increasing the sensitivity of next-generation gravitational wave detectors |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 04, 2017 
When NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale - or MMS - mission was launched, the scientists knew it would answer questions fundamental to the nature of our universe - and MMS hasn't disappointed.
A new finding, presented in a paper in Nature Communications, provides observational proof of a 50-year-old theory and reshapes the basic understanding of a type of wave in space known as a kinetic Alfv ... more Washington (UPI) Mar 28, 2017Scientists recreate space particle collisions inside Large Hadron Collider  Washington DC (SPX) Mar 29, 2017NIST physicists show ion pairs perform enhanced 'spooky action'  Norwich, UK (SPX) Mar 31, 2017New research into light particles challenges understanding of quantum theory |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 04, 2017  The International Space Station serves as an orbiting test and demonstration laboratory for scientific experiments to be performed inside and outside the space station. The experiments are inherently transient with typical life cycles of about one to five years. Once their test objectives are accomplished, they are removed to make way for new experiments.
On Feb. 19, a NASA experiment - a ... more Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 31, 2017NASA Tests Robotic Ice Tools for Use on Ocean Worlds  Washington DC (SPX) Apr 04, 2017Robot epigenetics: Adding complexity to embodied robot evolution  Paris (SPX) Apr 04, 2017Electronic synapses that can learn: towards an artificial brain? |
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Nanjing (XNA) Mar 31, 2017
Yuanwang space tracking ships, which follows the progress of satellites and other space-bound craft, will carry out 19 maritime space monitoring missions in 2017, according to the maritime satellite measurement and control authority on Wednesday.
Yuanwang-5 left port Wednesday and Yuanwang-6 started its journey Monday.
Yuanwang-7 and the rocket transporting fleet will set sail in Apr ... moreBeijing (Sputnik) Mar 13, 2017China Develops Spaceship Capable of Moon Landing Wenchang, China (XNA) Mar 13, 2017Long March-7 Y2 ready for launch of China's first cargo spacecraft Beijing (Sputnik) Mar 09, 2017China Seeks Space Rockets Launched from Airplanes |
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