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  Washington DC (SPX) Mar 28, 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) valley. Opportunity is engaged in an extensive in-situ (contact) science campaign on the surface target called "Aguas Calientes," an exposed rock outcrop. After previously brushing the surface, on Sol 5026 (March 14, 2018), the rover used the robotic arm (IDD) to collect a Microscopic Imager (MI) mosai ... read more |
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Curiosity rover gets ready for its next adventurePasadena CA (JPL) Mar 28, 2018 This mosaic, taken by the Mars Curiosity rover, looks uphill at Mount Sharp. Spanning the center of the image is an area with clay-bearing rocks that scientists are eager to explore; it could shed a ... more 
Elon Musk's vision to colonize Mars updated in New SpaceNew Rochelle, NY (SPX) Mar 27, 2018 In "Making Life Multi-Planetary" Elon Musk, CEO and Lead Designer at SpaceX, presents the updated design for the Big Falcon Rocket (BFR), the powerful rocket intended to propel a newly modified spac ... more 
Instruments for next NASA mission to Mars being tested under Germany's Black ForestWashington (UPI) Mar 23, 2018 Scientists in Germany are working hard to ensure NASA's next Mars mission, the Insight mission, gets the most accurate data possible. ... more 
Mars Curiosity Celebrates Sol 2,000Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 23, 2018 NASA's Mars Curiosity rover just hit a new milestone: its two-thousandth Martian day, or sol, on the Red Planet. An image mosaic taken by the rover in January offers a preview of what comes next. ... more |
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CosmoQuest releases Mappers 2.0 for crater mappingSan Francisco CA (SPX) Mar 14, 2018 The CosmoQuest Citizen Science facility released a major update to its Mappers software. This software previously demonstrated that everyday people can map craters as effectively as a group of profe ... 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  
Elon Musk plans to launch spacecraft for Mars in 2019Washington (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. ... more 
Next NASA Mars Rover Reaches Key Manufacturing MilestonePasadena CA (JPL) Mar 14, 2018 NASA's Mars 2020 mission has begun the assembly, test and launch operations (ATLO) phase of its development, on track for a July 2020 launch to Mars. The first planned ATLO activities will inv ... more 
Asteroids and comets shower Mars with organicsAmsterdam, Netherlands (SPX) Mar 14, 2018 Asteroids and comets appear to be a much more important suppliers of organic molecules on Mars than expected. Until now, astronomers assumed that the organics on Mars mainly came from dust particles ... more |
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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  |
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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 
The Case of the Martian Boulder PilesPasadena CA (JPL) Mar 07, 2018 This image was originally meant to track the movement of sand dunes near the North Pole of Mars, but what's on the ground in between the dunes is just as interesting! The ground has parallel d ... more 
NASA InSight mission to Mars arrives at launch siteVandenberg AFB CA (JPL) Feb 28, 2018 NASA's InSight spacecraft has arrived at Vandenberg Air Force Base in central California to begin final preparations for a launch this May. The spacecraft was shipped from Lockheed Martin Space, Den ... more 
Mars Express views moons set against Saturn's ringsParis (ESA) Mar 02, 2018 New images and video from ESA's Mars Express show Phobos and Deimos drifting in front of Saturn and background stars, revealing more about the positioning and surfaces of the Red Planet's mysterious ... more 
Curiosity tests a new way to drill on MarsPasadena CA (JPL) Mar 01, 2018 NASA's Mars Curiosity rover has conducted the first test of a new drilling technique on the Red Planet since its drill stopped working reliably. This early test produced a hole about a half-in ... more |
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 New Delhi (Sputnik) Mar 27, 2018 
The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) - India's state-owned space agency - has deferred the launch of Chandrayaan-2, the country's second mission to the moon, to October this year. The ISRO chief has said that it needs to perform some more tests before the launch. The launch was initially scheduled for April this year.
"Initially, we had planned an April launch for Chandrayaan-2, b ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) March 27, 2018 
An uncontrolled Chinese space station weighing at least seven tonnes is set to break up as it hurtles to Earth on or around April 1, the European Space Agency has forecast.
"It will mostly burn up due to the extreme heat generated by its high-speed passage through the atmosphere," it said in a statement.
Some debris from the Tiangong-1 - or "Heavenly Palace" - spacelab will likely fal ... more |
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 Madrid, Spain (SPX) Mar 21, 2018 
About 70,000 years ago, when the human species was already on Earth, a small reddish star approached our solar system and gravitationally disturbed comets and asteroids. Astronomers from the Complutense University of Madrid and the University of Cambridge have verified that the movement of some of these objects is still marked by that stellar encounter.
At a time when modern humans were be ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) March 7, 2018 
Jupiter's tempestuous, gassy atmosphere stretches some 3,000 kilometres (1,860 miles) deep and comprises a hundredth of the planet's mass, studies based on observations by NASA's Juno spacecraft revealed Wednesday.
The measurements shed the first light on what goes on beneath the surface of the largest planet in the Solar System, which from a distance resembles a colourful, striped glass mar ... 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 27, 2018 
Lightning triggers powerful electrical bursts in Earth's atmosphere almost every second. The inner workings of these magnificent forces of nature are still unknown, but a rare observation by an ESA astronaut gave a boost to the science community. A European detector will take on the challenge of hunting for thunderstorms from space next week.
As he flew over India at 28 800 km/h on the Int ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Mar 28, 2018 
How would you like to sit at the helm of human spaceflight, responsible for the success of missions and the highly trained teams of engineers and scientists that make them possible? NASA is hiring new flight directors for just this job at its mission control at Johnson Space Center in Houston.
"Flight directors play a critical role in the success of our nation's human spaceflight missions, ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 28, 2018 
The first interstellar object ever seen in our solar system, named 'Oumuamua, is giving scientists a fresh perspective on the development of planetary systems. A new study by a team including astrophysicists at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, calculated how this visitor from outside our solar system fits into what we know about how planets, asteroids and comets form. ... more |
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 Plano TX (SPX) Mar 21, 2018 
The Antenna Systems Division (ASD) of Communications and Power Industries reports it has received multiple contract awards from Cubic Mission Solutions, a business division of Cubic Corporation.
Cubic Mission Solutions provide networked Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) capabilities for defense, intelligence, security and com ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Mar 14, 2018 
Measurements of the three-dimensional structure of the earth, as opposed to the one-dimensional models typically used, can help scientists more accurately determine which areas of the United States are most vulnerable to blackouts during hazardous geomagnetic storms.
Space weather events such as geomagnetic storms can disturb the earth's magnetic field, interfering with electric power grid ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Mar 27, 2018 
Four university student projects were successfully launched at 6:51:30 a.m. EDT, March 25, 2018, on a NASA suborbital sounding rocket from the agency's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.
The two-stage Terrier-Improved Malemute sounding rocket carried the projects to an altitude of 107 miles. The projects then descended by parachute, landing in the Atlantic Ocean. The projects were recove ... more |
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 Nuremberg, Germany (SPX) Mar 26, 2018 
For the very first time, scientists from Friedrich-Alexander-Universitat Erlangen-Nurnberg (FAU), the University of Leicester and the University of Vigo have proven that the kinetic energy from particles in granular gases such as dust clouds can rise temporarily even though energy is constantly being drawn out of the system.
Their research adds further detail to Haff's law (devised 35 year ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Mar 23, 2018 
When a gravitational wave reaches Earth, every second counts. The data processing speed will have a crucial impact on how much astronomers can learn from these space-time ripples, says computer scientist Cao Junwei.
"In an era of multi-messenger astronomy, we have to shorten the time as much as possible so as to trigger the alert quickly enough for follow-up observations," says Cao, who le ... more |
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 Moscow, Russia (SPX) Mar 23, 2018 
One of the MASTER Global Robotic Net telescopes (MSU) located on Tenerife (Spain, Canary Islands) helped the scientists observe the gamma-ray burst caused by the collapse of a star and the formation of a black hole in its place.
Usual telescopes are unable to point to gamma-ray bursts error-boxes fast enough to monitor the change in its brightness and obtain any information about its sourc ... more |
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 Kyoto, Japan (SPX) Mar 23, 2018 
As AI's role in society continues to expand, J B Brown of the Graduate School of Medicine reports on a new evaluation method for the type of AI that predicts yes/positive/true or no/negative/false answers.
Brown's paper, published in Molecular Informatics, deconstructs the utilization of AI and analyzes the nature of the statistics used to report an AI program's ability. The new technique ... more |
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Paris (AFP) March 27, 2018
An uncontrolled Chinese space station weighing at least seven tonnes is set to break up as it hurtles to Earth on or around April 1, the European Space Agency has forecast.
"It will mostly burn up due to the extreme heat generated by its high-speed passage through the atmosphere," it said in a statement.
Some debris from the Tiangong-1 - or "Heavenly Palace" - spacelab will likely fal ... more |
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