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May 31, 2019
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A European mission control for the Martian rover



Paris (ESA) May 31, 2019
 The ExoMars rover has a brand new control centre in one of Europe's largest Mars yards. The Rover Operations Control Centre (ROCC) was inaugurated in Turin, Italy, ahead of the rover's exploration adventure on the Red Planet in 2021. The control centre will be the operational hub that orchestrates the roaming of the European-built laboratory on wheels, named after Rosalind Franklin, upon arrival to the martian surface on Kazachok, the Russian surface platform. "This is the crucial place on E ... read more
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NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover Finds a Clay Cache
 Pasadena CA (JPL) May 30, 2019
 NASA's Curiosity rover has confirmed that the region on Mars it's exploring, called the "clay-bearing unit," is well deserving of its name. Two samples the rover recently drilled at rock targets cal ... more
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Comet inspires chemistry for making breathable oxygen on Mars
 Pasadena CA (SPX) May 30, 2019
 Science fiction stories are chock full of terraforming schemes and oxygen generators for a very good reason--we humans need molecular oxygen (O2) to breathe, and space is essentially devoid of it. E ... more
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Getting ready for Mars - on the Space Station
 Paris (ESA) May 28, 2019
 From disrupted biological clocks to radiation and contamination hazards, Europe is running experiments on the International Space Station to take human exploration one step closer to Mars. As ... more
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NASA photo showcases landing site for Mars 2020
 Washington UPI) May 28, 2019
 A new photo captured by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and shared online this week features the landing site for the space agency's Mars 2020 mission. ... more
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Europe to Mars and back
 Paris (ESA) May 28, 2019
 Europe has been in orbit around Mars for more than 15 years and is almost a year away from launching its first rover mission, but ambitions are already running high to go one step further: returning ... more
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Strange Martian mineral deposit likely sourced from volcanic explosions
 Providence RI (SPX) May 23, 2019
 Ashfall from ancient volcanic explosions is the likely source of a strange mineral deposit near the landing site for NASA's next Mars rover, a new study finds. The research, published in the journal ... more
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NASA's Mars 2020 Mission Drops in on Death Valley
 Pasadena CA (JPL) May 27, 2019
 On a test flight in Death Valley, California, anAirbus helicopter carried an engineering model of the Lander Vision System (LVS) that will help guide NASA's next Mars mission to a safe touchdown on ... more
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Mars 'Actually the Only Planet' Humans Can Go to Escape Earth, Professor Claims
 Moscow (Sputnik) May 23, 2019
 In recent years, humanity's most brilliant minds have been working to send the first human to the Red Planet. According to physicist Brian Cox, Mars might be the only space travel option for people, ... more
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NASA Closer to Discovering What Lies Beneath the Surface of Airless Planetary Bodies
 Greenbelt MD (SPX) May 22, 2019
 NASA is a step closer to eventually discovering what lies up to 32 feet or 10 meters beneath the surfaces of Mars, the Moon or any airless body in the solar system - a region roughly the length of a ... more
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On Mars, sands shift to a different drum
 Tucson AZ (SPX) May 24, 2019
 Wind has shaped the face of Mars for millennia, but its exact role in piling up sand dunes, carving out rocky escarpments or filling impact craters has eluded scientists until now. In the most ... more
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Massive Martian ice discovery opens a window into red planet's history
 Austin TX (SPX) May 23, 2019
 Newly discovered layers of ice buried a mile beneath Mars' north pole are the remnants of ancient polar ice sheets and could be one of the largest water reservoirs on the planet, according to scient ... more
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After the Moon, people on Mars by 2033...or 2060
 Washington (AFP) May 18, 2019
 On December 11, 2017, US President Donald Trump signed a directive ordering NASA to prepare to return astronauts to the Moon "followed by human missions to Mars and other destinations." ... more
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NASA Invites Public to Submit Names to Fly Aboard Next Mars Rover
 Pasadena CA (JPL) May 22, 2019
 Although it will be years before the first humans set foot on Mars, NASA is giving the public an opportunity to send their names - stenciled on chips - to the Red Planet with NASA's Mars 2020 rover, ... more
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Exploring life on Mars in the Gobi desert
 Lanzhou (XNA) May 21, 2019
 "Mars ain't the kind of place to raise your kids," as an Elton John hit goes. However, a Mars simulation base in the middle of China's Gobi desert might be the perfect place to introduce young ... more

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Is NASA looking at the wrong rocks for clues to Martian life?
 Washington DC (SPX) May 21, 2019
 In 2020, NASA and European-Russian missions will look for evidence of past life on Mars. But while volcanic, igneous rock predominates on the Red Planet, virtually the entire Earth fossil record com ... more

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Mars 2020 Is Coming Together
 Pasadena CA (JPL) May 21, 2019
 An engineer inspects the completed spacecraft that will carry NASA's next Mars rover to the Red Planet, prior to a test in the Space Simulator Facility at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasaden ... more
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How the Sun pumps out water from Mars into space
 Moscow, Russia (SPX) May 15, 2019
 Russian and German physicists have offered an explanation for the new data obtained by Martian satellites, capturing the "escape" of hydrogen atoms from the upper Martian atmosphere into outer space ... more
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New water cycle on Mars discovered
 Gottingen, Germany (SPX) May 10, 2019
 Approximately every two Earth years, when it is summer in the southern hemisphere of Mars, a window opens: only there and only in this season can water vapor efficiently rise from the lower into the ... more
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NASA's MRO Completes 60,000 Trips Around Mars
 Pasadena CA (JPL) May 16, 2019
 NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter hit a dizzying milestone this morning: It completed 60,000 loops around the Red Planet at 10:39 a.m. PDT (1:39 p.m. EDT). On average, MRO takes 112 minutes to circ ... more
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NASA Awards $106 Million to US Small Businesses for Technology Development
 Washington DC (SPX) May 15, 2019
 Managing pilotless aircraft and solar panels that could help humans live on the Moon and Mars are among the technologies NASA is looking to develop with small business awards totaling $106 million. ... more
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'A long ride': 50 years ago, a dress rehearsal for the Moon landing
Washington (AFP) May 25, 2019
 As Earth grew ever smaller below his spacecraft, Apollo 10 commander Tom Stafford made an unusual request to mission control. The year was 1969, and his vessel was the first to be equipped with a color camera, which was beaming live images to an awestruck global audience. "I was feeling real high," recalled Stafford, who is now 88 and the last surviving member of the crew. "I said: ' ... more
+ US and Japan partner on future moon mission
+ China's Chang'e-4 probe resumes work for sixth lunar day
+ Moon mission leader leaves NASA after 45 days
+ Water formation on the moon demonstrated by UH Manoa scientists
+ Collision that formed the moon also brought Earth water
+ NASA Awards Artemis Contract for Lunar Gateway Power, Propulsion
+ Astrobotic Signs Lunar Payload Agreement with Canadensys Aerospace
Yaogan-33 launch fails in north China, Possible debris recovered in Laos
Taiyuan (XNA) May 27, 2019
The attempt to launch a remote sensing Yaogan-33 satellite carried by a Long March-4C rocket from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China's Shanxi Province was unsuccessful on Thursday morning. The first and second stages of the rocket worked normally, while the third stage had abnormal operation. Based on monitoring data, the third stage of the rocket and satellite debris ... more
+ China develops new-generation rockets for upcoming missions
+ China's satellite navigation industry sees rapid development
+ China's Yuanwang-7 departs for space monitoring missions
+ China's tracking ship Yuanwang-2 starts new mission after retirement
+ China to build moon station in 'about 10 years'
+ China to enhance international space cooperation
+ China opens Chang'e-6 for international payloads, asteroids next
GomSpace to design world's first stand-alone nanosatellite asteroid rendezvous mission
Aalborg, Denmark (SPX) May 27, 2019
 GomSpace's subsidiary in Luxembourg and the European Space Agency (ESA) have signed a contract of EUR 400.000 for the Phase A design of the Miniaturised Asteroid Remote Geophysical Observer (M-ARGO) mission. Under the contract GomSpace will be in charge of preliminary design of the mission, spacecraft and implementation planning. A "12U" CubeSat spacecraft configuration is envisioned for t ... more
+ Oldest meteorite collection on Earth found in one of the driest places
+ Curtin planetary scientist unravels mystery of Egyptian desert glass
+ A family of comets reopens the debate about the origin of Earth's water
+ NASA Invites Public to Help Asteroid Mission Choose Sample Site
+ Bedbugs survived the impact event that wiped out the dinosaurs
+ 'Extreme Crunch' Looming if No Limits Put on Space Mining 'Gold Rush'
+ First planetary defense technology demonstration to collide with asteroid in 2022
On Pluto the Winter is approaching, and the atmosphere is vanishing into frost
Lisbon, Portugal (SPX) May 21, 2019
 With less than a fifth of the Moon's mass, Pluto can still retain an atmosphere, though a tenuous envelope of gas produced by the periodical sublimation of nitrogen ices. A study that followed the evolution of Pluto's atmosphere for fourteen years shows its seasonal nature, and predicts that it will now start to condensate as frost. This study1 was published in the journal Astronomy and As ... more
+ Neptune's moon Triton fosters rare icy union
+ Juno Finds Changes in Jupiter's Magnetic Field
+ Gas insulation could be protecting an ocean inside Pluto
+ NASA's New Horizons Team Publishes First Kuiper Belt Flyby Science Results
+ Brazilian scientists investigate dwarf planet's ring
+ Next-Generation NASA Instrument Advanced to Study the Atmospheres of Uranus and Neptune
+ Public Invited to Help Name Solar System's Largest Unnamed World
Researchers find ice feature on Saturn's giant moon
Tucson AZ (SPX) May 01, 2019
 Rain, seas and a surface of eroding organic material can be found both on Earth and on Saturn's largest moon, Titan. However, on Titan it is methane, not water, that fills the lakes with slushy raindrops. While trying to find the source of Titan's methane, University of Arizona researcher Caitlin Griffith and her team discovered something unexoldpected - a long ice feature that wraps nearl ... more
+ Giant planets and big data: What deep learning reveals about Saturn's storms
+ Deep learning takes Saturn by storm
+ NASA's Cassini Reveals Surprises with Titan's Lakes
+ New close-ups of the mini-moons in Saturn's rings
+ Scientist sheds light on Titan's mysterious nitrogen atmosphere
+ Cassini data show Saturn's Rings relatively new
+ Scientists Finally Know What Time It Is on Saturn
NASA studies Atmosphere by forming artificial night-time clouds over Marshall Islands
Greenbelt MD (SPX) May 31, 2019
4A NASA rocket mission to study disturbances in the upper atmosphere, which interfere with communication and technology systems, will form night-time white artificial clouds visible by residents of the Republic of the Marshall Islands during two rocket flights to occur between June 9 - 21, 2019. This the second flight of the Waves and Instabilities from a Neutral Dynamo, or WINDY, mission. ... more
+ First ICESat-2 Global Data Released: Ice, Forests and More
+ New Studies Increase Confidence in NASA's Measure of Earth's Temperature
+ NASA-Supported Monitoring Network Assesses Ozone Layer Threats
+ More detailed picture of Earth's mantle
+ Illegal ozone-depleting gases traced to China: study
+ Arianespace to orbit Spanish SEOSat Ingenio Earth observation satellite
+ Airbus signs MOU with Hellenic Space Agency for future space cooperation
NASA Navigation Tech Shows Timing Really Is Everything
Greenbelt MD (SPX) May 30, 2019
Without accurate timekeeping, space navigation would be impossible. As NASA goes forward to the Moon with the Artemis missions, precise measurements of time are key to mission success. To calculate where a spacecraft is in the solar system, NASA must measure the time it takes for electromagnetic waves traveling at the speed of light to flow between the spacecraft and known locations, like ... more
+ Russian cosmonauts remove a towel that spent 10 years on surface of ISS
+ Cosmonauts complete spacewalk at International Space Station
+ IAF ties up with ISRO for manned mission crew selection
+ Wandering Earth: rocket scientist explains how we could move our planet
+ China's tech 'Long March' could be road to nowhere
+ NASA Prepares for Future Moon Exploration with International Undersea Crew
+ NASA Selects Studies for Future Space Communications and Services
ExoMars orbiter prepares for Rosalind Franklin
Rosalind Franklin Rover at ExoMars
 Paris (ESA) May 31, 2019 On 15 June, the ESA-Roscosmos ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) will follow a different path. An 'Inclination Change Manoeuvre' will put the spacecraft in an altered orbit, enabling it to pick up crucial status signals from the ExoMars rover, Rosalind Franklin, due to land on the Red Planet in 2021. After completing a complex series of manoeuvres during 2017, ExoMar ... more
+ The 'forbidden' planet has been found in the 'Neptunian Desert'
+ Features that could be used to detect life-friendly climates on other worlds
+ Meteor magnets in outer space
+ Detecting bacteria in space
+ Microbes Exhibit Survival Skills in Ethiopia's Mars-like Wonderland
+ New method to find small exoplanets
+ Three exocomets discovered around the star Beta Pictoris
Northrop Grumman nabs $65M for drones for Navy, Australia
Washington (UPI) May 30, 2019
 Northrop Grumman has been awarded a $65 million contract for parts for production and delivery of drones for the U.S. Navy and the Australian government. The deal, announced Wednesday by the Department of Defense, calls for long-lead production components for three Lot 5 MQ-4C Triton unmanned aircraft. The contract also covers equipment and materials for ground stations for all three dr ... more
+ 'Neural Lander' uses AI to land drones smoothly
+ Vestas launches massive drone-based blade inspection campaign
+ Citadel Defense awarded contract to prevent UAV attacks at sensitive government locations
+ Hummingbird robot uses AI to soon go where drones can't
+ Northrop Grumman awarded $163.6M to support Army's Hunter drone
+ US warns Chinese drones may steal data: report
+ Obstacles to overcome before operating fleets of drones becomes reality
Scientists uncover exotic matter in the sun's atmosphere
Dublin, Ireland (SPX) May 27, 2019
 Scientists from Ireland and France have announced a major new finding about how matter behaves in the extreme conditions of the Sun's atmosphere. The scientists used large radio telescopes and ultraviolet cameras on a NASA spacecraft to better understand the exotic but poorly understood "fourth state of matter". Known as plasma, this matter could hold the key to developing safe, clean and ... more
+ The sun follows the rhythm of the planets
+ Centuries-old drawings lead to better understanding of fan-shaped auroras
+ Strong Magnetic Storm May Cause Satellites to Deorbit - Russian Academy
+ NASA Scientist Receives Patent for Innovative Technique for Measuring Space Weather Phenomena
+ Scientists discover what powers celestial phenomenon STEVE
+ Indian Scientists Make Deepest Radio Images of the Sun
+ New model accurately predicts harmful space weather
NASA Makes Progress Assembling Massive Space Launch System Rocket Stage
Michoud LA (SPX) May 30, 2019
 NASA and Boeing technicians have begun the second of three major activities to join the large structural parts of the core stage for NASA's deep space rocket, the Space Launch System. When this task is completed, four of the five major core stage structures - most of the massive 212-foot stage-- will be assembled. Boeing and NASA will add the engine section and the four RS-25 engines to complete ... more
+ ULA Completes Final Design Review for New Vulcan Centaur Rocket
+ From airport to spaceport as UK targets horizontal spaceflight
+ Michigan Company Helps Build NASA Moon Rocket, Accelerate Moon Missions
+ USC Students Win the Collegiate Space Race
+ ESA signs contracts for enhanced Ariane 6 composite upper stage technologies
+ Advanced rocket engine ready for space mission
+ Rocket Lab to launch rideshare mission for Spaceflight
A New View of Exoplanets With NASA's Upcoming Webb Telescope
Baltimore MD (SPX) May 30, 2019
 While we now know of thousands of exoplanets - planets around other stars - the vast majority of our knowledge is indirect. That is, scientists have not actually taken many pictures of exoplanets, and because of the limits of current technology, we can only see these worlds as points of light. However, the number of exoplanets that have been directly imaged is growing over time. When NASA's Jame ... more
+ Webb Telescope emerges successfully from final thermal vacuum test
+ NICER's night moves trace the x-ray sky
+ Chemistry of stars sheds new light on the Gaia Sausage
+ Evidence of New Magnetic Transitions in Sun-like Stars from Gaia Data
+ Nature inspires a novel new form of computing, using light
+ Giant Telescope on Sea Floor Will Study Neutrinos from Space
+ Young stars heat molecular clouds and drive gas bubbles throughout galaxies
Development of a displacement sensor to measure gravity of smallest source mass ever
Sendai, Japan (SPX) May 23, 2019
 One of the most unknown phenomena in modern physics is gravity. Its measurement and laws remain somewhat of an enigma. Researchers at Tohoku University have revealed important information about a new aspect of the nature of gravity by probing the smallest mass-scale. Professor Nobuyuki Matsumoto has led a team of researchers to develop a gravity sensor based on monitoring the displacement ... more
+ Gravitational waves leave a detectable mark, physicists say
+ UCLA students touch space with a microgravity experiment
+ LIGO and Virgo Detect Neutron Star Smash-Ups
+ Scientists Find More Evidence the Universe Is a Violent Place
+ What Earth's gravity reveals about climate change
+ Ten years before the detection of gravitational waves
+ Upgraded Detectors to Resume Hunt for Gravitational Waves
A unique experiment to explore black holes
Paris (ESA) May 27, 2019
 What happens when two supermassive black holes collide? Combining the observing power of two future ESA missions, Athena and LISA, would allow us to study these cosmic clashes and their mysterious aftermath for the first time. Supermassive black holes, with masses ranging from millions to billions of Suns, sit at the core of most massive galaxies across the Universe. We don't know exactly ... more
+ Clocks, gravity, and the limits of relativity
+ Physicists discover new type of spin waves
+ Colliding lasers double the energy of proton beams
+ NIST team demonstrates heart of next-generation chip-scale atomic clock
+ 'Fire streaks' ever more real in the collisions of atomic nuclei and protons
+ Explosions of universe's first stars spewed powerful jets
+ Hubble Astronomers Assemble Wide View of the Evolving Universe
Artificial intelligence becomes life-long learner with new framework
Research Triangle Park NC (SPX) May 23, 2019
 A project of the U.S. Army has developed a new framework for deep neural networks that allows artificial intelligence systems to better learn new tasks while forgetting less of what they have learned regarding previous tasks. The North Carolina State University researchers, funded by the Army, have also demonstrated that using the framework to learn a new task can make the AI better at per ... more
+ Hyperdimensional computing theory could change the way AI works
+ Rise of the Machines: AI beats humans in multiplayer shooter
+ Toy transformers and real-life whales inspire biohybrid robot
+ With a hop, a skip and a jump, high-flying robot leaps through obstacles with ease
+ Spidey senses could help autonomous machines see better
+ Dog-like robot made by students jumps, flips and trots
+ New AI sees like a human, filling in the blanks
Yaogan-33 launch fails in north China, Possible debris recovered in Laos
Taiyuan (XNA) May 27, 2019
The attempt to launch a remote sensing Yaogan-33 satellite carried by a Long March-4C rocket from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China's Shanxi Province was unsuccessful on Thursday morning. The first and second stages of the rocket worked normally, while the third stage had abnormal operation. Based on monitoring data, the third stage of the rocket and satellite debris ... more
+ China develops new-generation rockets for upcoming missions
+ China's satellite navigation industry sees rapid development
+ China's Yuanwang-7 departs for space monitoring missions
+ China's tracking ship Yuanwang-2 starts new mission after retirement
+ China to build moon station in 'about 10 years'
+ China to enhance international space cooperation
+ China opens Chang'e-6 for international payloads, asteroids next
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