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  Washington (UPI) Mar 11, 2018 Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk said Sunday that he is on track to launch a spacecraft for Mars by next year. "We are building the first ship, or interplanetary ship, right now," Musk said during a question and answer session at the SXSW festival in Austin, Texas. "And we'll probably be able to do short flights, short up and down flights, probably some time in the first half of next year." Musk said that his ship - the Big Falcon Rocket - will be capable of greatly reducing the aver ... read more |
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Opportunity is Halfway Down the ValleyPasadena CA (JPL) Mar 13, 2018 Opportunity is continuing the exploration of "Perseverance Valley" on the west rim of Endeavour Crater. The rover is positioned about halfway down the approximately 656 feet (200 meter) valley ... more 
Travis AFB delivers NASA InSight SpacecraftTravis AFB CA (AFNS) Mar 12, 2018 Airmen from the 21st Airlift Squadron and the 860th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron at Travis Air Force Base, California, loaded and transported the NASA InSight Spacecraft Feb. 28, 2018, from Lockhee ... more 
360 Video: Tour a Mars Robot Test LabPasadena CA (JPL) Mar 12, 2018 NASA's InSight lander looks a bit like an oversized crane game: when it lands on Mars this November, its robotic arm will be used to grasp and move objects on another planet for the first time. ... more 
Opportunity collects more 'Selfie' framesPasadena CA (JPL) Mar 07, 2018 Opportunity is continuing the exploration of "Perseverance Valley" on the west rim of Endeavour Crater. The rover is positioned about half way down the approximately 656 feet (200 meter) valle ... more |
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Atacama Desert study offers glimpse of what life on Mars could look likeWashington (UPI) Feb 27, 2018 For the first time, scientists have documented life rebounding in the sandy soil of the world's driest desert, the Atacama Desert. The research has offered new insights into the resiliency of life, as well as a glimpse of what life might look like on Mars. ... more 
Mars Odyssey Observes Martian MoonsPasadena CA (JPL) Feb 26, 2018 Phobos and Deimos, the moons of Mars, are seen in this movie put together from 19 images taken by the Mars Odyssey orbiter's Thermal Emission Imaging System, or THEMIS, camera. The images were ... more 
Life in world's driest desert seen as sign of potential life on MarsPullman WA (SPX) Feb 27, 2018 For the first time, researchers have seen life rebounding in the world's driest desert, demonstrating that it could also be lurking in the soils of Mars. Led by Washington State University planetary ... more
Dormant desert life hints at possibilities on MarsMiami (AFP) Feb 26, 2018 It may rain once a decade or less in South America's Atacama Desert, but tiny bacteria and microorganisms survive there, hinting at the possibility of similar life on Mars, researchers said Monday. ... more 
A brief history of Martian exploration - as the InSight Lander prepares to launchSydney, Australia (SPX) Feb 26, 2018 Roughly every two years Mars and Earth wander a bit closer to each other, making the leap between these two planets a little easier. In July this year, Mars will only be about 58 million kilometres ... more |
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 Opportunity Celebrates 5,000 Days on Mars, Snaps First 'Selfie'
Seven ways Mars InSight is differentPasadena CA (JPL) Feb 23, 2018 NASA's Mars InSight lander team is preparing to ship the spacecraft from Lockheed Martin Space in Denver, where it was built and tested, to Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, where it will bec ... more  |
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Nearly a Decade After Mars Phoenix Landed, Another LookPasadena CA (JPL) Feb 22, 2018 A recent view from Mars orbit of the site where NASA's Phoenix Mars mission landed on far-northern Mars nearly a decade ago shows that dust has covered some marks of the landing. The Phoenix l ... more 
ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter ready to start sniffing the methaneParis (ESA) Feb 22, 2018 Slowed by skimming through the very top of the upper atmosphere, ESA's ExoMars has lowered itself into a planet-hugging orbit and is about ready to begin sniffing the Red Planet for methane. T ... more
Opportunity Continues to Benefit from Dust Cleaning of the Solar PanelsPasadena CA (JPL) Feb 21, 2018 Opportunity is continuing the exploration of "Perseverance Valley" on the west rim of Endeavour Crater. The rover is positioned on the north fork of a local flow channel about half way down th ... more  
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to Reveal Secrets of the Red PlanetBaltimore, MD (SPX) Feb 21, 2018 The planet Mars has fascinated scientists for over a century. Today, it is a frigid desert world with a carbon dioxide atmosphere 100 times thinner than Earth's. But evidence suggests that in the ea ... more 
Leaky Atmosphere Linked To Lightweight PlanetParis (ESA) Feb 13, 2018 The Red Planet's low gravity and lack of magnetic field makes its outermost atmosphere an easy target to be swept away by the solar wind, but new evidence from ESA's Mars Express spacecraft shows th ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Mar 08, 2018 
NASA is looking at how the Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway can create value for both robotic and human exploration in deep space. In late 2017, the agency asked the global science community to submit ideas leveraging the gateway in lunar orbit to advance scientific discoveries in a wide range of fields. NASA received more than 190 abstracts covering topics human health and performance, Earth obse ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Mar 8, 2018 
China is getting closer to a finalized design for its next-generation X-ray observatory.
As reported by Science this week, scientists at China's National Space Science Center are honing in on the final iteration of their design for the X-Ray Timing and Polarimetry, eXTP, satellite.
The eXTP mission team plans to complete a prototype by 2022, with a goal to launch the satellite in ... more |
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 Paris, France (SPX) Mar 07, 2018 
Comets made up of two lobes, such as Chury, visited by the Rosetta spacecraft, are produced when the debris resulting from a destructive collision between two comets clumps together again. Such collisions could also explain some of the enigmatic structures observed on Chury. This discovery, made by an international team coordinated by Patrick Michel, CNRS researcher at the laboratoire Lagrange ( ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 08, 2018 
Data collected by NASA's Juno mission to Jupiter indicate that the atmospheric winds of the gas-giant planet run deep into its atmosphere and last longer than similar atmospheric processes found here on Earth. The findings will improve understanding of Jupiter's interior structure, core mass and, eventually, its origin.
Other Juno science results released this week include that the massive ... more |
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 Ithaca NY (SPX) Jan 19, 2018 
Using the now-complete Cassini data set, Cornell University astronomers have created a new global topographic map of Saturn's moon Titan that has opened new windows into understanding its liquid flows and terrain. Two papers, recently published in Geophysical Review Letters, describe the map and discoveries arising from it.
Creating the map took about a year, according to doctoral student ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Mar 12, 2018 
Two recent expeditions that took scientists 26 000 km across the Atlantic Ocean have returned critical information to make sure that the Copernicus Sentinel satellites are delivering accurate data about the state of our oceans.
Information from the Sentinels is used in a myriad of ways to make lives easier and businesses more efficient.
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 Moffett Field CA (SPX) Mar 12, 2018 
NASA has selected 128 proposals from American small businesses to advance research and technology in Phase II of its 2017 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. These selections support NASA's future space exploration missions, while also benefiting the U.S. economy.
"We look forward to working with these promising small businesses to further advance NASA's missions," said Jim ... more |
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 Baltimore MD (SPX) Mar 12, 2018 
Water is crucial for life, but how do you make water? Cooking up some H2O takes more than mixing hydrogen and oxygen. It requires the special conditions found deep within frigid molecular clouds, where dust shields against destructive ultraviolet light and aids chemical reactions. NASA's James Webb Space Telescope will peer into these cosmic reservoirs to gain new insights into the origin and ev ... more |
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 Baton Rouge LA (SPX) Mar 06, 2018 
A recent scientific expedition to the Danger Islands, a remote group of tiny islands along eastern side of the Antarctic Peninsula, used new technologies to discover and survey a breeding colony of over one and a half million penguins.
Michael Polito, assistant professor in the department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences at LSU, and co-authors detail their findings in a study published ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 12, 2018 
The more solar observatories, the merrier: Scientists have developed new models to see how shocks associated with coronal mass ejections, or CMEs, propagate from the Sun - an effort made possible only by combining data from three NASA satellites to produce a much more robust mapping of a CME than any one could do alone.
Much the way ships form bow waves as they move through water, CMEs set ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Mar 13, 2018 
The Ukrainian Space Agency has reportedly come up with an ambitious proposal to establish a spaceport some 11,500 km from home.
According to The West Australian newspaper, Kiev has been lobbying both Canberra and the northwestern Australian state government of Kimberley for two years now, with its proposals falling on deaf ears.
Ukraine's ambassador to Australia, Nikolai Kulinich, as ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Mar 8, 2018  The National Astronomical Observatory of Japan has released the HSC Viewer to help the public access observations of the universe made by the Subaru Telescope and its Hyper Suprime-Cam.
"I developed this viewer so the general public can become familiar with the latest, extensive HSC data," astronomer Michitaro Koike said in a Thursday news release. "I hope you enjoy exploring the univer ... more |
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 Uppsala, Sweden (SPX) Feb 13, 2018 
In a new article, published in Nature Materials, researchers from Beijing, Uppsala and Julich have made significant progress allowing very high resolution magnetic measurements. With their method it is possible to measure magnetism of individual atomic planes.
Magnetic nanostructures are used in a wide range of applications. Most notably, to store bits of data in hard drives. These structu ... more |
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 Dresden, Germany (SPX) Mar 13, 2018 
Flows of molten metal can generate magnetic fields. This so-called dynamo effect creates cosmic magnetic fields, like those found on planets, moons and even asteroids. Over the coming years, a globally unique experiment, in which a steel drum containing several tons of liquid sodium rotates around two axes, is intended to demonstrate this effect.
It will be carried out in the new DRESDYN f ... more |
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Mar 13, 2018 
A study led by researchers at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) has uncovered new ways of driving multi-legged robots by means of a two-level controller. The proposed controller uses a network of so-called non-linear oscillators that enables the generation of diverse gaits and postures, which are specified by only a few high-level parameters. The study inspires new research into how mul ... more |
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Washington (UPI) Mar 8, 2018
China is getting closer to a finalized design for its next-generation X-ray observatory.
As reported by Science this week, scientists at China's National Space Science Center are honing in on the final iteration of their design for the X-Ray Timing and Polarimetry, eXTP, satellite.
The eXTP mission team plans to complete a prototype by 2022, with a goal to launch the satellite in ... more |
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