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  Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 19, 2018 NASA has picked an ancient river delta as the landing site for its uncrewed Mars 2020 rover, to hunt for evidence of past life on Earth's neighboring planet, officials said Monday. Even though the Red Planet is now cold and dry, the landing site, Jezero Crater, was filled with a 1,600-foot (500-meter) deep lake that opened to a network of rivers some 3.5 to 3.9 billion years ago. The 28-mile (45-kilometer) wide basin "could have collected and preserved ancient organic molecules and other potenti ... read more |
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How NASA will know when InSight touches down on MarsPasadena CA (JPL) Nov 19, 2018 What's the sound of a touchdown on Mars? If you're at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, it sounds like winning the Super Bowl: cheers, laughter and lots of hollering. But in the minutes before ... more 
Overflowing crater lakes carved canyons across MarsAustin TX (SPX) Nov 17, 2018 Today, most of the water on Mars is locked away in frozen ice caps. But billions of years ago it flowed freely across the surface, forming rushing rivers that emptied into craters, forming lakes and ... more 
For arid, Mars-like desert, rain brings deathIthaca NY (SPX) Nov 15, 2018 When rains fell on the arid Atacama Desert, it was reasonable to expect floral blooms to follow. Instead, the water brought death. An international team of planetary astrobiologists has found ... more  
Extended life for ESA's science missionsParis (ESA) Nov 15, 2018 ESA's Science Programme Committee (SPC) has confirmed the continued operations of ten scientific missions in the Agency's fleet up to 2022. After a comprehensive review of their scientific mer ... more |
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Scientists capture the sound of sunrise on MarsChelmsford UK (SPX) Nov 12, 2018 Scientists have created the soundtrack of the 5,000th Mars sunrise captured by the robotic exploration rover, Opportunity, using data sonification techniques to create a two-minute piece of music. ... more 
Oxia Planum favoured for ExoMars surface missionParis (ESA) Nov 12, 2018 The ExoMars Landing Site Selection Working Group has recommended Oxia Planum as the landing site for the ESA-Roscosmos rover and surface science platform that will launch to the Red Planet in 2020. ... more 
Landing site selected for UK's ExoMars rover in 2021London, UK (SPX) Nov 12, 2018 A group of scientists and engineers in Leicester has recommended Oxia Planum as the best landing site for the British-built Mars rover. Due to land in 2021, the ExoMars rover will be the first ... more  
Dawn falls silent as a successful mission comes to an endBonn, Germany (SPX) Nov 12, 2018 An extraordinary mission has drawn to an end, after the NASA space probe Dawn fell silent on 31 October. On 27 September 2007, Dawn set off to explore the asteroid Vesta and the dwarf planet Ceres, ... more 
The Mars InSight Landing Site Is Just Plain PerfectPasadena CA (JPL) Nov 06, 2018 No doubt about it, NASA explores some of the most awe-inspiring locations in our solar system and beyond. Once seen, who can forget the majesty of astronaut Jim Irwin standing before the stark beaut ... more |
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 NASA looks to university researchers for innovative space tech solutions 
Five Months Since We Received A Signal From OpportunityPasadena CA (JPL) Nov 08, 2018 The global dust storm on Mars has ended and atmospheric opacity (tau) over the rover site hovers around a typical seasonal value between 1.0 and 1.2. No signal from Opportunity has been heard ... more  |
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Evidence of outburst flooding indicates plentiful water on early MarsJackson MS (SPX) Nov 06, 2018 The presence of water on Mars has been theorized for centuries. Early telescopes revealed ice caps, and early astronomers noted channels that were hypothesized to be natural rivers or creature-created canals. ... more 
Curiosity on the move againPasadena CA (JPL) Nov 07, 2018 NASA's Mars Curiosity rover drove about 197 feet (60 meters) over the weekend to a site called Lake Orcadie, pushing its total odometry to over 12 miles (20 kilometers). This was Curiosity's longest ... more 
Water cycle along the northern rim of Hellas Basin throughout Mars' historyMountain View CA (SPX) Nov 02, 2018 The northeastern rim region of Hellas impact basin, located in the southern hemisphere of Mars, contained numerous ephemeral lakes throughout Mars' history, a new study reveals. A new paper publishe ... more 
Naturally occurring 'batteries' fueled organic carbon synthesis on MarsWashington DC (SPX) Nov 01, 2018 Mars' organic carbon may have originated from a series of electrochemical reactions between briny liquids and volcanic minerals, according to new analyses of three Martian meteorites from a team led ... more 
Five things to know about InSight's Mars landingPasadena CA (JPL) Nov 01, 2018 Every Mars landing is a knuckle-whitening feat of engineering. But each attempt has its own quirks based on where a spacecraft is going and what kind of science the mission intends to gather. ... more |
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 Washington DC (Sputnik) Nov 17, 2018 
A potential mission to the moon in 2028 was presented Thursday to the US National Space Council's (NSC) Users' Advisory Group in response to US President Donald Trump's idea of going to the Moon.
The NSC Users' Advisory Group - a group of government and NASA officials headed by Vice President Mike Pence - was presented with a timeline for reaching and settling the moon in the late 2020s, V ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Nov 13, 2018 
The Technology and Engineering Center for Space Utilization (CSU) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences released a smart solution for verifying the operational reliability of space equipment components on Friday.
The selection of space equipment components involves reliability verification, data collection, transmission and comparison.
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 Tucson AZ (SPX) Nov 17, 2018 
On Nov. 14, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft stretched out its robotic sampling arm for the first time in space. The arm, more formally known as the Touch-and-Go Sample Acquisition Mechanism (TAGSAM), is key to the spacecraft achieving the primary goal of the mission: returning a sample from asteroid Bennu in 2023.
As planned, engineers at Lockheed Martin commanded the spacecraft to move the a ... more |
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 Mountain View CA (SPX) Nov 14, 2018 
A letter authored by SETI Institute scientist Oliver White was published by Nature Astronomy today. Co-authors included researchers Jeff Moore, Tanguy Bertrand and Kimberly Ennico at NASA's Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley.
The letter "Washboard and Fluted Terrains on Pluto as Evidence for Ancient Glaciation" focuses on these distinctive landscapes that border the vast nitrogen ice p ... more |
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 Tucson AZ (SPX) Oct 25, 2018 
Mysterious straight bright stripes have been discovered on Saturn's moon Dione, says research by Planetary Science Institute Associate Research Scientist Alex Patthoff.
The origins of these linear virgae (virgae meaning a stripe or streak of color) are most likely caused by the draping of surface materials like material from Saturn's rings, passing comets, or co-orbital moons Helene and Po ... more |
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 Uppsala, Sweden (SPX) Nov 16, 2018 
Research published in the respected journal Science presents observations made by NASA's four Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) satellites in the Earth's magnetotail. Two scientists from the Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF) in Uppsala are co-authors of the article. The lead author is from the University of New Hampshire in USA.
Magnetic reconnection is an energy conversion process im ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Nov 15, 2018 
Windy weather pushed back until Saturday the planned launch of a US cargo ship loaded with supplies for astronauts living at the International Space Station, NASA said Thursday.
The delay to 4:01 am (0901 GMT) on November 17 from Wallops Island, Virginia marks the second time launch managers have postponed the mission from its initial flight plan of Thursday.
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 Orlando FL (SPX) Nov 17, 2018 
In 1974, the Arecibo Observatory made history by beaming the most powerful radio message into deep space ever made. The famous Arecibo Message was designed by the AO 74's staff, led by Frank Drake, and with the help of the astronomer and famed science communicator Carl Sagan. It contained information about the human race and was intended to be our intergalactic calling card.
"Our society a ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Nov 15, 2018 
Northrop Grumman signed a contract with the Republic of Korea to provide logistical support to ROK's high-altitude RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicle fleet.
The contract includes site activation for launching and ground control, training, and support personnel for four RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicles set for delivery over the next year, the company announced on Wednesday ... more |
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 London UK (SPX) Nov 16, 2018 
A close study of auroras has revealed new ways of understanding the physics of explosive energy releases in space, according to new UCL-led research.
Auroras are an incredible light show caused by electrically charged particles in near-Earth space spiraling down Earth's magnetic field and colliding with gases in the atmosphere, causing them to glow.
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 Huntington Beach CA (SPX) Nov 17, 2018 
US orbital launch provider, Rocket Lab, has closed a Series E financing round of $140 million (USD). The funding round closed last month, prior to the launch of the successful mission 'It's Business Time,' and was led by existing investor Future Fund, with strong participation from current investors including Greenspring Associates, Khosla Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, DCVC (Data Collecti ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (SPX) Nov 16, 2018 
Supernovas are the deathly explosions of massive stars. One of the ways that astronomers look for clues about how these stars blow up is to go hunting for what's known as the progenitor to a supernova - the star before it died. They comb through archival telescope images and try to pinpoint the location and identity of the star before it blasted apart.
Now, for the first time, a Caltech-le ... more |
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 Nagoya, Japan (SPX) Nov 19, 2018 
Everybody is familiar with granular clusters - while making a cake in the kitchen, you see that the flour forms clumps. Porous dust agglomerates - clumps of clumps of dust grains - are considered to be building materials in the formation of planets. But to reveal how planets are formed, the physical behaviour of these dust clumps has to be properly understood.
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 Mainz, Germany (SPX) Nov 15, 2018 
A reflection always reproduces objects as a complete mirror image, rather than just its individual parts or individual parts in a completely different orientation. It's all or nothing, the mirror can't reflect just a little. This illustrates a fundamental symmetry principle in nature.
For decades, physics assumed that the laws of nature in our world and in the mirror world would be identic ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Nov 19, 2018 
With machine learning systems now being used to determine everything from stock prices to medical diagnoses, it's never been more important to look at how they arrive at decisions.
A new approach out of MIT demonstrates that the main culprit is not just the algorithms themselves, but how the data itself is collected.
"Computer scientists are often quick to say that the way to make th ... more |
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Beijing (XNA) Nov 13, 2018
The Technology and Engineering Center for Space Utilization (CSU) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences released a smart solution for verifying the operational reliability of space equipment components on Friday.
The selection of space equipment components involves reliability verification, data collection, transmission and comparison.
The smart solution will help shorten the time to ... more |
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