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  Coventry, UK (SPX) Mar 19, 2019 Researchers at the University of Warwick have been inspired by the unique movement of trembling aspen leaves, to devise an energy harvesting mechanism that could power weather sensors in hostile environments and could even be a back-up energy supply that could save and extend the life of future Mars rovers. University of Warwick third-year engineering undergraduates have in recent years been set the task of the examining the puzzle of why Aspen leaves quiver in the presence of a slightest breeze. ... read more |
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InSight lander among latest ExoMars image bountyNoordwijk, The Netherlands (SPX) Mar 15, 2019 Curious surface features, water-formed minerals, 3D stereo views, and even a sighting of the InSight lander showcase the impressive range of imaging capabilities of the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter. ... more 
Pathfinder Rover May Have Explored Edges of Early Mars Sea in 1997Tucson AZ (SPX) Mar 15, 2019 NASA's first rover mission to Mars, the Pathfinder, imaged an extraterrestrial marine spillover landscape 22 years ago, according to a new paper by Planetary Science Institute Senior Scientist Alexi ... more 
Bernese Mars Camera CaSSIS Returns Spectacular ImagesBern, Switzerland (SPX) Mar 15, 2019 Three years ago, on 14 March 2016, the Bernese Mars camera CaSSIS started its journey to Mars with the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter spacecraft. The camera system developed at the University of Bern has ... more 
Objects in the rear-view mirror may appear interestingPasadena CA (JPL) Mar 13, 2019 In the current plan, we start with a dust devil survey to look for them while they are still in season. This is followed by a ChemCam investigation "Schiehallion" and an RMI mosaic on "Motherwell." ... more |
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Simulated extravehicular activity science operations for Mars explorationNew Rochelle NY (SPX) Mar 07, 2019 A new study describes the Science Operations component and new results from NASA's Biologic Analog Science Associated with Lava Terrains (BASALT). The goal of BASALT was to provide evidence-based re ... more 
Mars InSight Lander's 'Mole' Pauses DiggingPasadena CA (JPL) Mar 06, 2019 br> NASA's Mars InSight lander has a probe designed to dig up to 16 feet (5 meters) below the surface and measure heat coming from inside the planet. After beginning to hammer itself into th ... more 
UCF research laying groundwork for off-world coloniesOrlando FL (SPX) Mar 05, 2019 Before civilization can move off world it must make sure its structures work on the extraterrestrial foundations upon which they will be built. University of Central Florida researchers are al ... more 
Clues to Martian Life Found in Chilean DesertLausanne, Switzerland (SPX) Mar 01, 2019 A robotic rover deployed in the most Mars-like environment on Earth, the Atacama Desert in Chile, has successfully recovered subsurface soil samples during a trial mission to find signs of life. ... more 
First evidence of planet-wide groundwater system on MarsParis (ESA) Mar 01, 2019 Mars Express has revealed the first geological evidence of a system of ancient interconnected lakes that once lay deep beneath the Red Planet's surface, five of which may contain minerals crucial to ... more |
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Prototype Mars Rover Gets Workout Controlled from 6,000 Miles AwaySwindon UK (SPX) Mar 01, 2019 A space control centre in the UK has been used to test-drive a prototype Mars rover thousands of miles away in Chile's Atacama desert. Experts at the European Space Agency's centre in Oxfordsh ... more  |
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InSight's "Mole" Starts Hammering into the Martian SoilBonn, Germany (SPX) Mar 01, 2019 On 28 February 2019, the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fuer Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) 'Mole' fully automatically hammered its way into the Martian subsurface for the first time. In a fi ... more  
First Emirati set to head to space in September: UAEDubai (AFP) Feb 25, 2019 The United Arab Emirates announced Monday that the first astronaut from the Gulf country will blast off on a mission to the International Space Station on September 25. ... more 
Life on Mars: my 15 amazing years with Oppy, NASA's record-breaking roverStirling UK (SPX) Feb 28, 2019 "It's getting dark, my batteries are running low." With this final poignant message, the most successful mission to Mars - originally planned to last 90 days - ended after 15 years, in a dust storm ... more  
Astronauts Assemble Tools to Test Space TechGreenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 28, 2019 Technology drives exploration for future human missions to the Moon, Mars and beyond. For spacecraft to journey farther and live longer, we'll need to store and transfer super-cold liquids used for ... more 
Signs of ancient flowing water on MarsParis (ESA) Feb 22, 2019 These images from ESA's Mars Express satellite show a branching, desiccated system of trenches and valleys, signs of ancient water flow that hint at a warmer, wetter past for the Red Planet. W ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Mar 14, 2019 
Assembly of a new habitable structure near the Moon, known as the Gateway, is scheduled to begin in 2023. The international project will allow humans to explore farther than ever before and it brings new opportunities for European design in space.
In late 2018, ESA commissioned two consortia - one led by Airbus and the other by Thales Alenia Space - to undertake parallel studies into the d ... more |
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 Xichang (XNA) Mar 12, 2019 
Chinese scientists are designing what is expected to be the world's most powerful rocket, according to a senior researcher.
Li Hong, deputy general manager at China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp, said the Long March 9 super heavy-lift carrier rocket will be capable of lifting 140 metric tons of payload into a low-Earth orbit, or a 50-ton spacecraft to a lunar transfer orbit. The gi ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 13, 2019 
Just as dust gathers in corners and along bookshelves in our homes, dust piles up in space too. But when the dust settles in the solar system, it's often in rings. Several dust rings circle the Sun. The rings trace the orbits of planets, whose gravity tugs dust into place around the Sun, as it drifts by on its way to the center of the solar system.
The dust consists of crushed-up remains f ... more |
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 Laurel MD (SPX) Mar 19, 2019  The farthest object ever explored is slowly revealing its secrets, as scientists piece together the puzzles of Ultima Thule - the Kuiper Belt object NASA's New Horizons spacecraft flew past on New Year's Day, four billion miles from Earth.
Analyzing the data New Horizons has been sending home since the flyby of Ultima Thule (officially named 2014 MU69), mission scientists are learning more ... more |
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 San Antonio TX (SPX) Jan 24, 2019 
A new Southwest Research Institute study tackles one of the greatest mysteries about Titan, one of Saturn's moons: the origin of its thick, nitrogen-rich atmosphere. The study posits that one key to Titan's mysterious atmosphere is the "cooking" of organic material in the moon's interior.
"Titan is a very interesting moon because it has this very thick atmosphere, which makes it unique amo ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Mar 13, 2019 
New maps that use information from the Copernicus Sentinel-5P satellite reveal nitrogen dioxide emission being released into the atmosphere in cities and towns across the globe.
Air pollution is a global environmental health problem that is responsible for millions of people dying prematurely every year. With air quality a serious concern, the Copernicus Sentinel-5P satellite was launched ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Mar 13, 2019 
The smell of isopropyl alcohol on the International Space Station (ISS) that appeared after the arrival of US unmanned spacecraft Crew Dragon last week, has started to dissipate since the demo capsule undocked from the station, a source in the Russian rocket and space industry told Sputnik.
"Samples of air in the station's atmosphere, taken after the Dragon 2 [Crew Dragon] spacecraft undoc ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 15, 2019 
Researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, are cooking up an alien atmosphere right here on Earth. In a new study, JPL scientists used a high-temperature "oven" to heat a mixture of hydrogen and carbon monoxide to more than 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit (1,100 Celsius), about the temperature of molten lava. The aim was to simulate conditions that might be found in the at ... more |
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 Madrid, Spain (SPX) Mar 13, 2019 
World ATM Congress - Today, AirMap, the leading global airspace management platform for drones, and Honeywell announced the development of a cost-effective drone tracking solution to provide airspace safety authorities with situational awareness of manned and unmanned aircraft operations within an airspace system.
Together, the companies will develop a cost-effective hardware device to all ... more |
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 Plainsboro NJ (SPX) Mar 13, 2019 
Whether zipping through a star or a fusion device on Earth, the electrically charged particles that make up the fourth state of matter better known as plasma are bound to magnetic field lines like beads on a string.
Unfortunately for plasma physicists who study this phenomenon, the magnetic field lines often lack simple shapes that equations can easily model. Often they twist and knot like ... more |
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 London, UK (The Conversation ) Mar 15, 2019 
A fiery Dragon lit up the sky over the Atlantic before cooling off with a watery splashdown on March 8. The SpaceX Dragon 2 capsule is of enormous significance for spaceflight as it has just become the first commercial vehicle to automatically dock with the International Space Station (ISS) and return to Earth. The spacecraft will now aim to carry astronauts to the ISS in a few months.
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 Frankfurt, Germany (SPX) Mar 19, 2019 
Heavy elements are produced during stellar explosion or on the surfaces of neutron stars through the capture of hydrogen nuclei (protons). This occurs at extremely high temperatures, but at relatively low energies. An international research team headed by Goethe University has now succeeded in investigating the capture of protons at the storage ring of the GSI Helmholtzzentrum fur Schwerionenfor ... more |
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 Bonn, Germany (SPX) Feb 22, 2019 
An international research team including astronomers from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, Germany, has combined radio telescopes from five continents to prove the existence of a narrow stream of material, a so-called jet, emerging from the only gravitational wave event involving two neutron stars observed so far. With its high sensitivity and excellent performance, the 100- ... more |
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 Jerusalem (SPX) Mar 14, 2019 
Under the direction of Mobileye founder Amnon Shashua, a research group at Hebrew University of Jerusalem's School of Engineering and Computer Science has proven that artificial intelligence (AI) can help us understand the world on an infinitesimally small scale called quantum physics phenomena.
Quantum physics phenomena is one of the hottest topics in contemporary physics. It looks at how ... more |
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 Singapore (SPX) Mar 13, 2019 
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning algorithms such as Deep Learning have become integral parts of our daily lives: they enable digital speech assistants or translation services, improve medical diagnostics and are an indispensable part of future technologies such as autonomous driving. Based on an ever increasing amount of data and powerful novel computer architectures, learning a ... more |
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Xichang (XNA) Mar 12, 2019
Chinese scientists are designing what is expected to be the world's most powerful rocket, according to a senior researcher.
Li Hong, deputy general manager at China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp, said the Long March 9 super heavy-lift carrier rocket will be capable of lifting 140 metric tons of payload into a low-Earth orbit, or a 50-ton spacecraft to a lunar transfer orbit. The gi ... more |
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