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Big dishes band together![]() ![]() Paris (ESA) Aug 28, 2017 Earlier this month, radio dishes from three deep-space networks combined to catch faint 'survival' whispers from one of ESA's Mars orbiters, underlining the value of international collaboration for exploring the Red Planet. For the first time ever, deep-space ground stations from ESA, NASA and Russia's Roscosmos joined together, on 13 August, to receive ultra-faint signals from ESA's ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter, now circling Mars. Engineers carefully designed the test to probe the limits of wh ... read more |
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![]() Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 29, 2017 Preparation of NASA's next spacecraft to Mars, InSight, has ramped up this summer, on course for launch next May from Vandenberg Air Force Base in central California - the first interplanetary launc ... more ![]() ![]() Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 28, 2017 Opportunity is located in "Perseverance Valley" on the west rim of Endeavour Crater. The rover has been staying in place collecting extensive Panoramic Camera (Pancam) stereo panoramas. ... more ![]() ![]() Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 17, 2017 This month, movements of the planets will put Mars almost directly behind the sun, from Earth's perspective, causing curtailed communications between Earth and Mars. NASA will refrain from sen ... more ![]() ![]() Paris (ESA) Jul 14, 2017 A dried-out river valley with numerous tributaries is seen in this recent view of the Red Planet captured by ESA's Mars Express. This section of the Libya Montes region, which sits on the equator a ... more |
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![]() Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 14, 2017 Opportunity is in "Perseverance Valley" on the west rim of Endeavour Crater. The rover has arrived at the location within the valley where she will spend the approximately three-week solar conjuncti ... more ![]() ![]() Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 13, 2017 The car-size NASA rover on a Martian mountain, Curiosity, has begun its long-anticipated study of an iron-bearing ridge forming a distinctive layer on the mountain's slope. Since before Curios ... more ![]() ![]() Paris (ESA) Aug 23, 2017 As the energetic particles of the solar wind speed across interplanetary space, their motion is modified by objects in their path. A study, based on data from ESA's Mars Express orbiter, has thrown ... more ![]() ![]() Paris (AFP) Aug 21, 2017 Mars is buffeted by turbulent snowstorms that occur only at night, according to a study released Monday that revises our understanding of Red Planet weather. ... more ![]() ![]() Washington DC (SPX) Aug 21, 2017 NASA's Mars 2020 mission, which will look for signs of past life on Mars, will use smart methods originally developed to find the oldest life on Earth, according the mission's Deputy Project Scienti ... more ![]() ![]() Paris (ESA) Aug 17, 2017 Ten spacecraft, from ESA's Venus Express to NASA's Voyager-2, felt the effect of a solar eruption as it washed through the Solar System while three other satellites watched, providing a unique persp ... more |
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![]() ![]() Preserving the stress of volcanic uprise on Mars ![]() ![]() Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 14, 2017 Opportunity is located in Perseverance Valley on the west rim of Endeavour crater and has resumed normal science activities post-conjunction. Taking advantage of the position through conjuncti ... more ![]() ![]() Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 14, 2017 Wispy, early-season clouds resembling Earth's ice-crystal cirrus clouds move across the Martian sky in some new image sequences from NASA's Curiosity Mars rover. These clouds are the most clea ... more ![]() ![]() Xining, China (XNA) Aug 09, 2017 China will establish the country's first Mars simulation base, in northwest China's Qinghai Province, the local government said Tuesday. The base will be in the red cliff region in Da Qaidam ( ... more ![]() ![]() Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 03, 2017 NASA's Curiosity Mars rover, which landed near Mount Sharp five years ago this week, is examining clues on that mountain about long-ago lakes on Mars. On Aug. 5, 2012, the mission team at NASA ... more |
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![]() Paris (ESA) Aug 22, 2017 ![]() ![]() ![]() Analysis of a 'rusty' lunar rock suggests the moon's interior is dry ![]() ![]() Roscosmos Approves Luna-25 Space Station Model in Moon Exploration Project ![]() ![]() Moon's magnetic field lasted far longer than once believed |
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![]() Moscow (Sputnik) Aug 29, 2017 ![]() ![]() ![]() ESA and Chinese astronauts train together ![]() ![]() To boldly go where no startup has gone before ![]() ![]() China's satellite sends unbreakable cipher from space |
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![]() Tucson AZ (SPX) Aug 28, 2017 ![]() ![]() ![]() Phoenicid meteor shower from dead comet arises again after 58 years ![]() ![]() Dino-killing asteroid could have thrust Earth into 2 years of darkness ![]() ![]() Large asteroid to safely pass Earth on September 1 |
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![]() Laurel MD (SPX) Jul 17, 2017 ![]() ![]() ![]() Juno spots Jupiter's Great Red Spot ![]() ![]() New evidence in support of the Planet Nine hypothesis ![]() ![]() Scientists probe Neptune's depths to reveal secrets of icy planets |
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![]() Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 30, 2017 ![]() ![]() ![]() NASA Announces Cassini End-of-Mission Activities ![]() ![]() Cassini to begin final five orbits around Saturn ![]() ![]() Cassini Prepares to Say Goodbye to a True Titan |
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![]() Keith Koehler for Wallops News ![]() ![]() ![]() Russian scientists invent device allowing them to sense kilometers into Earth ![]() ![]() Man-made fossil methane emission levels larger than previously believed ![]() ![]() Nickel key to Earth's magnetic field, research shows |
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![]() Moscow (Sputnik) Aug 29, 2017 ![]() ![]() ![]() Setting the Spaceplane Stage ![]() ![]() Forty years on, Voyager still hurtles through space ![]() ![]() NASA should continue large strategic missions to maintain leadership in space |
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![]() Arecibo PR (SPX) Jul 17, 2017 ![]() ![]() ![]() Gulf of Mexico tube worm is one of the longest-living animals in the world ![]() ![]() Molecular Outflow Launched Beyond Disk Around Young Star ![]() ![]() Scientists take first snapshots of a molecular propeller that runs at 100 degrees Celsius |
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![]() Washington (UPI) Aug 24, 2017 ![]() ![]() ![]() Army concludes MAST program for small autonomous drone swarms ![]() ![]() Drones relay RFID signals for inventory control ![]() ![]() Study finds drones accurate for relay of RFID signals for inventory control |
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![]() Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 30, 2017 ![]() ![]() ![]() Charleston C-17 flies on "dark side of the moon" ![]() ![]() NASA, ESA spacecraft track solar storm through space ![]() ![]() ESA's Proba-3 will create artificial solar eclipses |
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![]() Los Angeles CA (AFP) Aug 25, 2017 ![]() ![]() ![]() Wind Tunnel Test of Deep Space Rocket Calls For New Coat of Paint ![]() ![]() Falcon 9 launches from Vandenberg ![]() ![]() SpaceX unveils peek at sleek new spacesuit |
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![]() Charlottesville VA (SPX) Aug 29, 2017 ![]() ![]() ![]() Astronomers Let Gaseous Discs Tiltand Shrink in Virtual Wind Tunnel ![]() ![]() Proposed Astrophysics Mission to Conduct the First Infrared Spectral Survey of the Entire Sky ![]() ![]() Best ever image of a star's surface and atmosphere |
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![]() Paris (ESA) Aug 28, 2017 ![]() ![]() ![]() MSU gravitational physicist receives NASA award to explore extreme gravity and the universe ![]() ![]() First look at gravitational dance that drives stellar formation ![]() ![]() Telescope for detecting optical signals from gravitational waves launched |
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![]() Albuquerque NM (SPX) Aug 29, 2017 ![]() ![]() ![]() Record-breaking galaxy 5 billion light-years away shows we live in a magnetic universe ![]() ![]() Scientists 'excited' by observations suggesting formation scenarios ![]() ![]() NICER and LISA to Confirm or Disprove Predictions of General Relativity |
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![]() (UPI) Aug 29, 2017 ![]() ![]() ![]() Illinois researchers develop origami-inspired robot ![]() ![]() Smart computers ![]() ![]() Designing custom robots in a matter of minutes |
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![]() Moscow (Sputnik) Aug 29, 2017 ![]() ![]() ![]() ESA and Chinese astronauts train together ![]() ![]() To boldly go where no startup has gone before ![]() ![]() China's satellite sends unbreakable cipher from space |
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