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July 04, 2019
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Mars 2020 Rover Gets a Super Instrument



Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 03, 2019
 Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, have installed the SuperCam Mast Unit onto the Mars 2020 rover. The instrument's camera, laser and spectrometers can identify the chemical and mineral makeup of targets as small as a pencil point from a distance of more than 20 feet (6 meters). SuperCam is a next-generation version of the ChemCam instrument operating on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover. It has been developed jointly in the U.S., France and Spain. Once France deliver ... read more
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Inflatable Decelerator Will Hitch a Ride on the JPSS-2 Satellite
 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jul 02, 2019
 An inflatable decelerator technology that could one day help humans land on Mars will fly on the same Atlas V rocket as the JPSS-2 satellite. The Apollo lunar landers fired retro rockets to la ... more
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Mars 2020 Rover's 7-Foot-Long Robotic Arm Installed
 Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 01, 2019
 In this image, taken on June 21, 2019, engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, install the main robotic arm on the Mars 2020 rover. (A smaller arm to handle Mars sampl ... more
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Paragon Space Development Corp awarded NASA contract for ISRU technology
 Tucson AZ (SPX) Jun 28, 2019
 Paragon Space Development Corporation (Paragon), and its partner Giner Inc., are proud to announce that they are now under contract for the development and testing of the ISRU-derived water purifica ... more
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A Martian methane belch melts away
 Washington (AFP) June 25, 2019
 The mystery of the Martian methane continues. ... more
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A chaos found only on Mars
 Paris (ESA) Jun 28, 2019
 The cracked, uneven, jumbled landscape seen in this image from ESA's Mars Express forms an intriguing type of terrain that cannot be found on Earth: chaotic terrain. The feature visible here, Aurora ... more
EXO WORLDS
NASA's TESS Mission Finds Its Smallest Planet Yet
 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jun 28, 2019
 NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has discovered a world between the sizes of Mars and Earth orbiting a bright, cool, nearby star. The planet, called L 98-59b, marks the tiniest di ... more
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Santorini volcano, a new terrestrial analogue of Mars
 Madrid, Spain (SPX) Jun 28, 2019
 One of the great attractions of the island of Santorini, in Greece, lies in its spectacular volcanic landscape, which also contains places similar to those of Mars. A team of European and U.S. scien ... more
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Life on Mars Was Possible After Last Great Meteorite Impact
 London, Canada (SPX) Jun 27, 2019
 A new international study led by Western University shows that Mars' first 'real chance' at developing life started very early, 4.48 billion years ago, when giant, life-inhibiting meteorites stopped ... more
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NASA's Curiosity rover finds new methane spike on Mars
 Washington (AFP) June 24, 2019
 NASA's Curiosity Rover has detected the highest ever levels of methane in the course of its mission on Mars, an exciting discovery because the gas could point to the existence of microbial life. ... more
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Experiments with salt-tolerant bacteria in brine have implications for life on Mars
 San Francisco CA (SPX) Jun 24, 2019
 Salt-tolerant bacteria grown in brine were able to revive after the brine was put through a cycle of drying and rewetting. The research has implications for the possibility of life on Mars, as well ... more
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A Rover for Phobos and Deimos
 Le Bourget, France (SPX) Jun 21, 2019
 Mars has two small moons, Phobos and Deimos. These are the target of the Japanese Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) mission, which also involves international partners. Scheduled for launch in 2024. i ... more
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Curiosity detects unusually high methane levels
 Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 24, 2019
 This week, NASA's Curiosity Mars rover found a surprising result: the largest amount of methane ever measured during the mission - about 21 parts per billion units by volume (ppbv). One ppbv means t ... more
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Mars 2020 Rover Gets Its Wheels
 Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 21, 2019
 In this image, taken on June 13, 2019, engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, install the starboard legs and wheels - otherwise known as the mobility suspension - on ... more
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NASA Invests $45M in US Small Businesses for Space Tech Development
 Washington DC (SPX) Jun 19, 2019
 American businesses will help NASA land astronauts on the Moon in five years and establish a sustainable presence there, as part of the agency's larger Moon to Mars exploration approach. NASA has se ... more

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The Mast is raised for NASA's Mars 2020 rover
 Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 17, 2019
 In this image, taken on June 5, 2019, engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, take a moment after attaching the remote sensing mast to the Mars 2020 rover in the Space ... more

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Meteors explain Mars' cloud cover
 Washington (UPI) Jun 17, 2019
 New research suggests the wispy clouds found 18 miles above the Marian surface are made of icy dust produced by meteors hitting the Red Planet's atmosphere. ... more
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Robotic arm will raise the support structure and help the Mole hammer
 Berlin, Germany (SPX) Jun 11, 2019
 There is a new plan to support the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) Mars 'Mole' that is part of NASA's InSight mission. The Heat Flow and Physical Properties ... more
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Johnson-built device to help Mars 2020 rover search for signs of life
 Houston TX (SPX) Jun 13, 2019
 Next summer, NASA is launching the Mars 2020 robotic rover to the Red Planet, loaded with equipment to search for signs that there once was life on Mars. One device, called the Scanning Habitable En ... more
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Mars 2020 will blaze a trail for humans
 Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 13, 2019
 When a female astronaut first sets foot on the Moon in 2024, the historic moment will represent a step toward another NASA first: eventually putting humans on Mars. NASA's latest robotic mission to ... more
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Mars Helicopter Testing Enters Final Phase
 Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 10, 2019
 NASA's Mars Helicopter flight demonstration project has passed a number of key tests with flying colors. In 2021, the small, autonomous helicopter will be the first vehicle in history to attempt to ... more
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Centuries of Moon depictions on display in New York
New York (AFP) July 1, 2019
 Some 400 years of depictions of the Moon, particularly via photography, are going on display at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art ahead of the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing. The Met will unveil its "Apollo's Muse: The Moon in the Age of Photography" on Wednesday, approximately two weeks before of the five-decade mark since the 1969 space trip that landed the first two people ... more
+ New camera system to offer high-resolution images, video of lunar landing
+ Guardians of Apollo: the curators preserving the Moon mission's legacy
+ Scientists scramble to build payload for 2021 lunar landing
+ NASA tests launch-abort system for moon-mission capsule
+ China's Chang'e-4 probe resumes work for 7th lunar day
+ ESA testing lunar rescue device tested underwater at NASA's NEEMO 23
+ To the Moon and back: 50 years on, a giant leap into the unknown
China plans to deploy almost 200 AU-controlled satellites into orbit
Beijing (Sputnik) Jul 02, 2019
 The satellites, which will reportedly include Yaogan-class remote sensing vehicles and named after the Leo constellation, are expected to be equipped with a self-piloting system. Beijing plans to deploy 192 artificial intelligence satellites into orbit to observe the Earth's surface by 2021, China Central Television (CCTV) reports. "It is safe to say that the satellites still remain ... more
+ Luokung and Land Space to develop control system for space and ground assets
+ Yaogan-33 launch fails in north China, Possible debris recovered in Laos
+ 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'
How Historic Jupiter Comet Impact Led to Planetary Defense
Washington DC (SPX) Jul 02, 2019
 Twenty-five years ago, humanity first witnessed a collision between a comet and a planet. From July 16 to 22, 1994, enormous pieces of the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 (SL9), discovered just a year prior, crashed into Jupiter over several days, creating huge, dark scars in the planet's atmosphere and lofting superheated plumes into its stratosphere. The SL9 impact gave scientists the opportunity ... more
+ 'Oumuamua Is Not an Alien Spacecraft
+ When CubeSats meet asteroid
+ Tunguska inspires new, more optimistic asteroid predictions
+ NASA Tracked Small Asteroid Before It Broke Up in Atmosphere
+ UH Team Successfully Locates Incoming Asteroid
+ NRL researchers find insights into the formation of the solar system in ancient comet dust
+ Hera asteroid mission's brain to be radiation-hard and failure-proof
Kuiper Belt Binary Orientations Support Streaming Instability Hypothesis
San Antonio TX (SPX) Jun 27, 2019
 A Southwest Research Institute-led team studied the orientation of distant solar system bodies to bolster the "streaming instability" theory of planet formation. "One of the least understood steps in planet growth is the formation of planetesimals, bodies more than a kilometer across, which are just large enough to be held together by gravity," said SwRI scientist Dr. David Nesvorny, the l ... more
+ Study Shows How Icy Outer Solar System Satellites May Have Formed
+ Astronomers See "Warm" Glow of Uranus's Rings
+ Table salt compound spotted on Europa
+ On Pluto the Winter is approaching, and the atmosphere is vanishing into frost
+ 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
Dragonfly Mission to Study Titan for Origins, Signs of Life
Tucson AZ (SPX) Jul 02, 2019
 NASA has announced funding for the Dragonfly mission, featuring a drone-like rotorcraft lander that would explore the prebiotic chemistry and habitability of dozens of sites on Saturn's moon Titan. The Dragonfly mission, part of NASA's New Frontiers program, will sample materials and determine surface composition to investigate Titan's organic chemistry and habitability, monitor atmospheri ... more
+ NASA's Dragonfly Will Fly Around Titan Looking for Origins, Signs of Life
+ "Bathtub rings" around Titan's lakes might be made of alien crystals
+ Cassini reveals new sculpting in Saturn rings
+ Researchers find ice feature on Saturn's giant moon
+ 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
SSTL expertise enables new space mission for the FORMOSAT-7 weather constellation
Guildford UK (SPX) Jul 01, 2019
 The successful launch on 24 June 2019 (EST) of 6 satellites for the FORMOSAT-7 joint US-Taiwanese weather forecasting constellation marks the start of another SSTL-enabled space mission, a cause for celebration at SSTL's UK HQ. The launch on the SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from the Kennedy Space Centre was attended by SSTL staff including Managing Director, Sarah Parker who said "We are ver ... more
+ Satellite image shows temperatures soaring across Europe
+ China's ocean observation satellites put into operation
+ Benin leaps into 21st century with new national map
+ NASA helps warn of harmful algal blooms in lakes, reservoirs
+ TanDEM-X reveals glaciers in detail
+ Airbus built SEOSAT Ingenio is finished and ready for testing
+ Satellite observations improve earthquake monitoring, response
What a Space Vacation Deal
Bethesda, MD (SPX) Jul 02, 2019
 Three weeks ago, NASA announced a new program to entice more commercial activities on the US side of the International Space Station (ISS). Starting in 2020, the station will be open to vacationers and others at a per-night-rate of $35,000. While this is the first time the American side of the ISS has been promoted as a high-flying hotel, there have been five tourists who have visited the ... more
+ LightSail 2 phones home to mission control
+ Aerojet Rocketdyne Delivers Orion Auxiliary Engines for Artemis 2
+ Left in the Dust: Poll Reveals Americans Don't Believe US Leads in Space Exploration
+ Soyuz capsule safely returns three space station crew members to Earth
+ Planetary Society's LightSail 2 Launched by Falcon Heavy
+ First-Ever Space Oven and Microgravity Baking Experiment
+ Hacker used $35 computer to steal restricted NASA data
Planet Seeding and Panspermia
Haifa, Israel (SPX) Jun 27, 2019
 The first detection of an interstellar asteroid/comet-like object visiting the solar system two years ago has sparked the ideas about the possibility of interstellar travel. New research from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology suggests that such objects also raise far reaching implications about the origins of planets across the galaxy, and possibly even the initial formation of the sol ... more
+ ALMA Pinpoints Formation Site of Planet Around Nearest Young Star
+ NASA's TESS Mission Finds Its Smallest Planet Yet
+ Cyanide Compounds Discovered in Meteorites May Hold Clues to the Origin of Life
+ Using a 'Cave Rover,' NASA Learns to Search for Life Underground
+ Space station mold survives high doses of ionizing radiation
+ View of the Earth in front of the Sun
+ Most Comprehensive Search for Radio Technosignatures
The RoboBee flies solo
Boston MA (SPX) Jul 01, 2019
 In the Harvard Microrobotics Lab, on a late afternoon in August, decades of research culminated in a moment of stress as the tiny, groundbreaking Robobee made its first solo flight. Graduate student Elizabeth Farrell Helbling, PhD '19, and postdoctoral fellow Noah T. Jafferis from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), the Graduate School of Arts and ... more
+ General Atomics gets $21.9M Army contract for work on Gray Eagle drone
+ Metropolitan area of Amsterdam starts exploring use of drone technology
+ Insitu nets $390.4M for Blackjack, ScanEagle drones for U.S. military, allies
+ AFRL XQ-58A UAV completes second successful flight
+ Russia Tests Satellite-Based Radar Capable of Detecting Low-Flying Drones
+ New energy-efficient algorithm keeps UAV swarms helping longer
+ Low-cost Valkyrie unmanned aircraft completes second test flight
Research details response of sagebrush to 2017 solar eclipse
Laramie WY (SPX) Jun 24, 2019
 The total solar eclipse's swath across Wyoming and the United States in August 2017 provided an opportunity for scientists to study a variety of celestial and earthly phenomena, from learning more about the Sun's corona to the behavior of animals and plants. University of Wyoming botany and hydrology doctoral student Daniel Beverly used the eclipse to examine the impact of the Moon's shado ... more
+ NASA selects missions to study our sun, its effects on space weather
+ Northern lights' social networking reveals true scale of magnetic storms
+ UK scientists to work with NASA on new mission to study the Sun
+ NASA Selects PUNCH Mission to Image Beyond the Sun's Outer Corona
+ NASA scientists find Sun's history buried in lunar crust
+ Solar activity forecast for next decade favorable for exploration
+ A new method for 3D reconstructions of eruptive events on sun
ULA says malfunction of Russian RD-180 rocket engine occurred in 2018 during Atlas V launch
Moscow (Sputnik) Jul 02, 2019
 The US United Launch Alliance (ULA) spokeswoman Julie Arnold said that there was an emergency situation with Russian-made RD-180 rocket engine in 2018 during a launch of Atlas V carrier rocket, noting that the incident did not affect the flight. In June, the US Government Accountability Office released a report on NASA's Commercial Crew Program that noted an emergency situation with an eng ... more
+ Rocket Lab successfully launches seventh Electron mission, deploys seven satellites to orbit
+ ESA expertise to support Portugal's launch program
+ Last Test Article for NASA's SLS Rocket Departs Michoud Assembly Facility
+ GREEN propellant infusion mission to test AFRL-developed green propellant
+ Ariane 5 launches T-16 and EUTELSAT 7C satellites
+ Swedish Space Corporation to introduce a new service for easy access to space
+ Raytheon, Northrop Grumman partner on hypersonic missile system
Hubble, Spitzer telescopes conduct chemical survey of mid-size exoplanet
Washington (UPI) Jul 2, 2019
 For the first time, scientists, with the help of a pair of NASA space telescopes, have identified the chemical signature of the atmosphere surrounding a mid-sized exoplanet. In size, mass and composition, Gliese 3470 b is like a cross between Earth and Neptune - a rocky core surrounded by a thick layer of gas. The exoplanet weighs 12.6 Earth masses. Neptune by comparison, weighs 17 Ear ... more
+ Lightning bolt underwater
+ Relationship found between ordinary, dark matter in galaxy clusters
+ A new property of light discovered
+ Cosmic cat and mouse: Astronomers capture and tag a fleeting radio burst
+ Hubble finds tiny "electric soccer balls" in space, helps solve interstellar mystery
+ NASA's Webb Telescope Tech Improves Patients' Vision
+ Astronomers Make History in a Split Second
Researchers find quantum gravity has no symmetry
Kashiwa, Japan (SPX) Jun 21, 2019
 A new study by a pair of researchers in the US and Japan has found that, when gravity is combined with quantum mechanics, symmetry is not possible. "Many physicists believe that there must a beautiful set of laws in Nature and that one way to quantify the beauty is by symmetry. Some of the symmetries may be hidden in our world, but they should manifest themselves if we look at Nature at a ... more
+ Development of a displacement sensor to measure gravity of smallest source mass ever
+ 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
Scientists capture atomic motion in four dimensions for the first time
Washington (UPI) Jun 27, 2019
 Scientists have for the first time captured atomic nucleation in 4D, the movement of atoms across space and time. Nucleation is the coalescence of atoms and molecules that happens as matter changes states - during freezing, melting or evaporation. Using a new high-tech imaging technique, scientists were able observe the movement of atoms during nucleation in four dimensions. "Th ... more
+ Theoretical physicists unveil one of the most ubiquitous and elusive concepts in chemistry
+ Building a bridge to the quantum world
+ Scientists perform world's smallest MRI on single atoms
+ The observation of topologically protected magnetic quasiparticles
+ What is an atomic clock?
+ The first AI universe sim is fast and accurate - and its creators don't know how it works
+ New model explains appearance of supermassive black holes in early universe
Safe, low-cost, modular, self-programming robots
Munich, Germany (SPX) Jul 01, 2019
 Many work processes would be almost unthinkable today without robots. But robots operating in manufacturing facilities have often posed risks to workers because they are not responsive enough to their surroundings. To make it easier for people and robots to work in close proximity in the future, Prof. Matthias Althoff of the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has developed a new system: IMPROV ... more
+ Artificial intelligence controls robotic arm to pack boxes and cut costs
+ NASA's first Astrobee robot "Bumble" starts flying in space
+ 'Robot blood' powers robotic fish in Cornell laboratory
+ I, Chatbot: Getting your news from a talkative automaton
+ Investing in Tech Concepts Aimed at Exploring Lunar Craters, Mining Asteroids
+ Army project develops agile scouting robots
+ Better together: human and robot co-workers
China plans to deploy almost 200 AU-controlled satellites into orbit
Beijing (Sputnik) Jul 02, 2019
 The satellites, which will reportedly include Yaogan-class remote sensing vehicles and named after the Leo constellation, are expected to be equipped with a self-piloting system. Beijing plans to deploy 192 artificial intelligence satellites into orbit to observe the Earth's surface by 2021, China Central Television (CCTV) reports. "It is safe to say that the satellites still remain ... more
+ Luokung and Land Space to develop control system for space and ground assets
+ Yaogan-33 launch fails in north China, Possible debris recovered in Laos
+ 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'
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