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August 12, 2019
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Dark meets light on Mars



Paris (ESA) Aug 09, 2019
 ESA's Mars Express has captured the cosmic contrast of Terra Cimmeria, a region in the southern highlands of Mars marked by impact craters, water-carved valleys, and sand and dust in numerous chocolate and caramel hues. Mars is often referred to as the Red Planet, due to the characteristic hue of its orb in the sky. Up close, however, the planet is actually covered in all manner of colours - from bright whites and dark blacks to yellows, reds, greens, and the cappuccino tones seen here. Thes ... read more
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Optometrists verify Mars 2020 rover's perfect vision
 Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 07, 2019
 Equipped with visionary science instruments, the Mars 2020 rover (https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020) underwent an "eye" exam after several cameras were installed on it. The rover contains an armada of ... more
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New finds for Mars rover, seven years after landing
 Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 07, 2019
 NASA's Curiosity rover has come a long way since touching down on Mars seven years ago. It has traveled a total of 13 miles (21 kilometers) and ascended 1,207 feet (368 meters) to its current locati ... more
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MEDLI2 installation on Mars 2020 aeroshell begins
 Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 05, 2019
 Hardware installed onto NASA's Mars 2020 entry vehicle this week will help to increase the safety of future Mars landings. Charged with returning astronauts to the Moon by 2024, NASA's Artemis ... more
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World first as kits designed to extract metals from the Moon and Mars blast off for space station tests
 London, UK (SPX) Jul 30, 2019
 Astronauts will test the devices on board the International Space Station, following the successful launch of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket last night (at 23:01 BST, Thursday 25 July) from NASA's Kenne ... more
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Mars 2020 rover does biceps curls
 Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 30, 2019
 The robotic arm on NASA's Mars 2020 rover does not have deltoids, triceps or biceps, but it can still curl heavy weights with the best. In this time-lapse video, taken July 19, 2019, in the clean ro ... more
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Europe prepares for Mars courier
 Paris (ESA) Jul 26, 2019
 The first round-trip to the Red Planet will see a European orbiter bringing martian samples back to Earth. ESA is opening the door to industry to build the spacecraft that will deliver the precious ... more
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Fueling of NASA's Mars 2020 rover power system begins
 Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 26, 2019
 NASA's Associate Administrator for the Science Mission Directorate, Thomas Zurbuchen, has given the go-ahead to begin fueling the Mars 2020 rover's Multi-Mission Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generato ... more
SPACE TRAVEL
Trump pits Apollo 11 astronauts against NASA chief
 Washington (AFP) July 19, 2019
 President Donald Trump welcomed surviving Apollo 11 crew members Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins to the White House Friday, using the occasion to tell his space chief he would prefer to go straight to Mars without returning to the Moon. ... more
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ExoMars radio science instrument readied for Red Planet
 Paris (ESA) Jul 23, 2019
 An ambitious instrument for ESA's ExoMars 2020 mission has passed its testing in conditions resembling those on the Red Planet. It will now be transported to Russia for its acceptance review, follow ... more
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Red wine compound could help protect astronauts on trip to Mars
 Washington (UPI) Jul 18, 2019
 Resveratrol, a phenol found in red wine, could be used to protect the muscles of astronauts during extended stays in space, like on a mission to Mars. ... more
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Mars 2020 Rover: T-Minus One Year and Counting
 Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 22, 2019
 The launch period for NASA's Mars 2020 rover opens exactly one year from July 17, 2020, and extends through Aug. 5, 2020. The mission will launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida and ... more
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Red wine's resveratrol could help Mars explorers stay strong
 Washington DC (SPX) Jul 18, 2019
 Mars is about 9 months from Earth with today's tech, NASA reckons. As the new space race hurtles forward, Harvard researchers are asking: how do we make sure the winners can still stand when they re ... more
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A material way to make Mars habitable
 Boston MA (SPX) Jul 17, 2019
 People have long dreamed of re-shaping the Martian climate to make it livable for humans. Carl Sagan was the first outside of the realm of science fiction to propose terraforming. In a 1971 paper, S ... more
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Aerogel could be a key building material for Mars
 Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 17, 2019
 Raising crops on Mars is far easier in science fiction than it will be in real life: The Red Planet is an inhospitable world. Among other challenges, subzero temperatures mean water can persist on t ... more

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NASA SLS rocket testing ensures astronaut safety, mission success
 Huntsville AL (SPX) Jul 11, 2019
 As the world reflects on the 50th anniversary of the Apollo missions, NASA is looking forward to its next giant leaps. One way NASA ensures the safety of astronauts and the success of the Artemis mi ... more

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Sustaining Life on Long-Term Crewed Missions Will Require Planetary Resources
 Cleveland OH (SPX) Jul 09, 2019
 When astronauts live and work on the Moon, they will need access to life-sustaining oxygen, water and other resources. On the Moon, and eventually Mars, they could collect local resources on the sur ... more
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InSight Uncovers the 'Mole' on Mars
 Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 05, 2019
 Behold the "mole": The heat-sensing spike that NASA's InSight lander deployed on the Martian surface is now visible. Last week, the spacecraft's robotic arm successfully removed the support structur ... more
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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 t ... more
PHYSICS NEWS
Artificial gravity breaks free from science fiction
 Boulder CO (SPX) Jul 05, 2019
 Artificial gravity has long been the stuff of science fiction. Picture the wheel-shaped ships from films like 2001: A Space Odyssey and The Martian, imaginary craft that generate their own gravity b ... more
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Dust storms swirl at the north pole of Mars
 Paris (ESA) Jul 08, 2019
 ESA's Mars Express has been keeping an eye on local and regional dust storms brewing at the north pole of the Red Planet over the last month, watching as they disperse towards the equator. Loc ... more
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Cislunar blueprint to propel space outreach for the next 50 years
West Lafayette IN (SPX) Aug 05, 2019
 In its inaugural call to action, Purdue Engineering's Cislunar Initiative took a giant leap forward in advancing humankind's presence in space and the development of the economy in the "cislunar region," the orbital area encompassing the Earth and moon. "The ecosystem of human space exploration has been rapidly expanding," said Mung Chiang, Purdue's John A. Edwardson Dean of the College of ... more
+ First steps in getting Canada to the Moon
+ The Moon and Mercury may have thick ice deposits
+ ISRO Chandrayaan-2 completes 5th orbital manoeuvre
+ China's lunar rover travels 271 meters on moon's far side
+ Moon 2069: lunar tourism and deep space launches a century on from Apollo?
+ China's micro lunar orbiter crashes into Moon under control
+ Chandrayaan-2 orbit successfully raised for 4th time
China launches first private rocket capable of carrying satellites
Beijing (AFP) July 25, 2019
 A Chinese startup successfully launched the country's first commercial rocket capable of carrying satellites into orbit Thursday, as the space race between China and the US heats up. Beijing-based Interstellar Glory Space Technology - also known as iSpace - said it launched two satellites into orbit around 1:00 pm Beijing time (0500 GMT) from Jiuquan, a state launch facility in the Gobi de ... more
+ Chinese scientists say goodbye to Tiangong-2
+ China's space lab Tiangong 2 destroyed in controlled fall to earth
+ From Moon to Mars, Chinese space engineers rise to new challenges
+ China plans to deploy almost 200 AU-controlled satellites into orbit
+ 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
Asteroid's features to be named after mythical birds
Tucson AZ (SPX) Aug 09, 2019
 Working with NASA's OSIRIS-REx team, the International Astronomical Union's Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature (WGPSN) approved the theme "birds and bird-like creatures in mythology" for naming surface features on asteroid (101955) Bennu. OSIRIS-REx is NASA's first mission to bring a sample from an asteroid back to Earth. The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has been mapping Bennu's surf ... more
+ Asteroid's surprise close approach illustrates need for more eyes on the sky
+ Aquariids peak on Monday starts month of meteor showers
+ What gives meteorites their shape
+ MASCOT Confirms What Scientists Have Long Suspected
+ Speeding up science on near-earth asteroids
+ ESA confirms asteroid will miss Earth in 2019
+ Hayabusa-makes completes second asteroid touchdown to collect samples
Hubble showcases new portrait of Jupiter
Garching, Germany (SPX) Aug 09, 2019
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope reveals the intricate, detailed beauty of Jupiter's clouds in this new image taken on 27 June 2019 [1]. It features the planet's trademark Great Red Spot and a more intense colour palette in the clouds swirling in the planet's turbulent atmosphere than seen in previous years. Among the most striking features in the image are the rich colours of the cloud ... more
+ Jupiter's auroras powered by alternating current
+ Kuiper Belt Binary Orientations Support Streaming Instability Hypothesis
+ 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
Yale researcher has a window seat for planning NASA's Dragonfly mission
New Haven CT (SPX) Jul 17, 2019
By 2034, when the Dragonfly drone mission makes landfall on the surface of Titan, Yale's Juan Lora will have spent nearly half his life studying the climatic tendencies of Saturn's icy moon. That's when the real work will begin, he says. Finally, after long years of preparation and modeling, Lora and his colleagues on the scientific end of the NASA Dragonfly mission will begin to get ... more
+ SMU's 'Titans in a jar' could answer key questions ahead of NASA's space exploration
+ The mission of a lifetime: a drone on Titan in 2034
+ Dragonfly Mission to Study Titan for Origins, Signs of Life
+ 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
Earth's last magnetic field reversal took far longer than once thought
Madison WI (SPX) Aug 08, 2019
 Earth's magnetic field seems steady and true - reliable enough to navigate by. Yet, largely hidden from daily life, the field drifts, waxes and wanes. The magnetic North Pole is currently careening toward Siberia, which recently forced the Global Positioning System that underlies modern navigation to update its software sooner than expected to account for the shift. And every several ... more
+ Making sense of remote sensing data
+ Using lasers to visualize molecular mysteries in our atmosphere
+ NASA's Spacecraft Atmosphere Monitor Goes to Work Aboard the International Space Station
+ NASA targets coastal ecosystems with new space sensor
+ CryoSat conquers ice on Arctic lakes
+ Roscosmos postpones launch of second Arctic weather satellite
+ Airbus selects exactEarth as AIS Partner for new maritime applications platform
Two weeks of science and beyond on ISS
Paris (ESA) Aug 07, 2019
 Over two weeks have flown by since ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano was launched to the International Space Station for his second six-month stay in orbit. His arrival, alongside NASA astronaut Andrew Morgan and Roscosmos Soyuz commander Alexander Skvortsov, boosted the Station's population to six and the crew has been busy ever since - performing a wide range of science in space. With the sta ... more
+ Orion Service Module completes critical propulsion test
+ As iPhone sales sputter, Apple moves toward reinvention, again
+ Study identifies way to enhance the sustainability of manufactured soils
+ Flight by Light: Mission accomplished for LightSail 2
+ Russian Progress MS-12 Cargo Spacecraft Docks International Space Station
+ Japan's space agency develops new filter to recycle urine
+ NASA commercial lunar payload services update
Dead planets can 'broadcast' for up to a billion years
Coventry UK (SPX) Aug 08, 2019
 Astronomers are planning to hunt for cores of exoplanets around white dwarf stars by 'tuning in' to the radio waves that they emit. In new research led by the University of Warwick, scientists have determined the best candidate white dwarfs to start their search, based upon their likelihood of hosting surviving planetary cores and the strength of the radio signal that we can 'tune in' to. ... more
+ Hordes of Earth's toughest creatures may now be living on Moon
+ Pre-life building blocks spontaneously align in evolutionary experiment
+ Shining starlight on the search for life
+ Distant "heavy metal" gas planet is shaped like a football
+ A chemical clue to how life started on Earth
+ Potentially habitable planet found in new solar system
+ Heavy metal gases observed streaming from football-shaped exoplanet
Teams test swarm autonomy in second major OFFSET field experiment
Washington DC (SPX) Aug 12, 2019
 During the second field experiment for DARPA's OFFensive Swarm-Enabled Tactics (OFFSET) program, teams of autonomous air and ground robots tested tactics on a mission to isolate an urban objective. Similar to the way a firefighting crew establishes a boundary around a burning building, they first identified locations of interest and then created a perimeter around the focal point. OFFSET e ... more
+ S.Korea tests drone delivery in remote regions
+ DLR conducts flight tests for gyrocopter drones
+ General Atomics to build parts, equipment for MQ-1C Gray Eagle drone
+ State Dept. approves $950M drone support services sale to South Korea
+ Automating complex design of universal controller for hybrid drones
+ US may have downed two Iranian drones last week: general
+ U.S. Defense Department considers buying Israeli-made drones
NASA's MMS finds first interplanetary shock
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 09, 2019
 The Magnetospheric Multiscale mission - MMS - has spent the past four years using high-resolution instruments to see what no other spacecraft can. Recently, MMS made the first high-resolution measurements of an interplanetary shock. These shocks, made of particles and electromagnetic waves, are launched by the Sun. They provide ideal test beds for learning about larger universal phenomena, ... more
+ Magnetic plasma pulses excited by UK-size swirls in the solar atmosphere
+ Researchers recreate the sun's solar wind and plasma "burps" on Earth
+ Airbus brings a SMILE to ESA
+ 'Terminators' on the sun trigger plasma tsunamis and the start of new solar cycles
+ Details of Solar Science Mission Revealed at UK Astronomy Meeting
+ Citizen scientists discover cyclical pattern of complexity in solar storms
+ UK-led solar science mission to use cubesats
AFRL achieves record-setting hypersonic ground test milestone
Wright-Patterson AFB OH (SPX) Aug 12, 2019
An Air Force Research Laboratory and Air Force Test Center ground test team set a record for the highest thrust produced by an air-breathing hypersonic engine in Air Force history. "AFRL, in conjunction with Arnold Engineering Development Complex and Northrop Grumman, achieved over 13,000 pounds of thrust from a scramjet engine during testing at Arnold Air Force Base," said Todd Barhorst, ... more
+ Lockheed awarded $405.7M contract for Army's hypersonic missile
+ In-Space selects Orbex for Scottish launch in 2022
+ SpaceX launches Falcon 9 carrying Israel's AMOS-17 satellite
+ Orbex and Innovative Space Logistics sign European Space Launch Agreement
+ Pentagon working on 9 separate hypersonic missile projects to take on Russia, China
+ Little SLS launches in low speed wind tunnel
+ Paragon Space Development Corporation CELSIUS Technology NASA Tipping Point Contract Award
New voyage to the universe from DESHIMA
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Aug 07, 2019
 Researchers in Japan and the Netherlands jointly developed an originative radio receiver DESHIMA (Deep Spectroscopic High-redshift Mapper) and successfully obtained the first spectra and images with it. Combining the ability to detect a wide frequency range of cosmic radio waves and to disperse them into different frequencies, DESHIMA demonstrated its unique power to efficiently measure the dist ... more
+ Scientists resolve the nature of powerful cosmic objects
+ ALMA Identifies dark ancestors of massive elliptical galaxies
+ Dark matter may be older than the big bang, study suggests
+ A new lens for life-searching space telescopes
+ Mechanism for gamma-ray bursts from space is decoded
+ Dutch Japanese Instrument Measures 49 Shades of Far-Infared
+ Anaemic star carries the mark of its ancient ancestor
A key piece to understanding how quantum gravity affects low-energy physics
Trieste, Italy (SPX) Aug 09, 2019
Researchers have, for the first time, identified the sufficient and necessary conditions that the low-energy limit of quantum gravity theories must satisfy to preserve the main features of the Unruh effect. In a new study, led by researchers from SISSA (Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati, the Complutense University of Madrid and the University of Waterloo, a solid theoretica ... more
+ Fastest eclipsing binary, a valuable target for gravitational wave studies
+ Chameleon Theory Could Change How We Think About Gravity
+ Artificial gravity breaks free from science fiction
+ Researchers find quantum gravity has no symmetry
+ 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
Where in the universe can you find a black hole nursery?
Birmingham UK (SPX) Aug 08, 2019
 Gravitational wave researchers at the University of Birmingham have developed a new model that could help astronomers track down the origin of heavy black hole systems in the Universe. Black holes are formed following the collapse of stars and possibly supernova explosions. These colossally dense objects are measured in terms of solar masses (Mo) - the mass of our sun. Typically, sta ... more
+ ALMA dives into Black Hole's 'Sphere of Influence'
+ Cloaked black hole discovered in early universe using NASA's Chandra
+ Ultracold quantum particles break classical symmetry
+ Einstein's general relativity theory is questioned but still stands for now, team reports
+ Scientists reproduce the dynamics behind astrophysical shocks
+ A peek at the birth of the universe
+ Multiple laser beamlets show better electron and ion acceleration
Employees less upset at being replaced by robots than by other people
Munich, Germany (SPX) Aug 12, 2019
 Generally speaking, most people find the idea of workers being replaced by robots or software worse than if the jobs are taken over by other workers. But when their own jobs are at stake, people would rather prefer to be replaced by robots than by another employee. That is the conclusion of a study by the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and Erasmus University in Rotterdam. Over the co ... more
+ Evolving computers from tools to partners in cyber-physical system design
+ Roach-inspired robot nearly as fast as real thing, unsquashable
+ A computer that understands how you feel
+ In the shoes of a robot: The future approaches
+ Kitchen disruption: better food through artificial intelligence
+ Get up and go bots getting closer, study says
+ Russia's Humanoid Robot FEDOR Renamed to Skybot Ahead of Its First Space Mission
China launches first private rocket capable of carrying satellites
Beijing (AFP) July 25, 2019
 A Chinese startup successfully launched the country's first commercial rocket capable of carrying satellites into orbit Thursday, as the space race between China and the US heats up. Beijing-based Interstellar Glory Space Technology - also known as iSpace - said it launched two satellites into orbit around 1:00 pm Beijing time (0500 GMT) from Jiuquan, a state launch facility in the Gobi de ... more
+ Chinese scientists say goodbye to Tiangong-2
+ China's space lab Tiangong 2 destroyed in controlled fall to earth
+ From Moon to Mars, Chinese space engineers rise to new challenges
+ China plans to deploy almost 200 AU-controlled satellites into orbit
+ 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
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