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September 09, 2019

'Martian CSI' Sheds Light on How Asteroid Impacts Generated Running Water Under Red Planet

Swindon UK (Sputnik) Sep 09, 2019
Volcanic Martian meteorites known as "nakhlites owe their name to El Nakhla in Egypt, where they first landed on Earth in 1911. Although they hold traces of impact of liquid water on the Martian surface the process which generated the fluids has been a mystery. A recent study entailing modern analysis of Martian meteorites has revealed stunning new details about how asteroid impacts facilitate the generation of temporary running water sources on the red planet. A paper titled "Boom boom pow: ... read more

NASA Research Gives New Insight into How Much Atmosphere Mars Lost
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Sep 06, 2019
A key tracer used to estimate how much atmosphere Mars lost can change depending on the time of day and the surface temperature on the Red Planet, according to new observations by NASA-funded scient ... more

NASA engineers attach Mars Helicopter to Mars 2020 rover
Washington (UPI) Aug 29, 2019
NASA engineers have installed the miniature helicopter on the space agency's Mars 2020 rover. The Mars Helicopter, nicknamed Scout, will be the first aircraft to fly on another planet. ... more

ESA Chief says discussed ExoMars 2020 launch with Roscosmos
Moscow (Sputnik) Aug 30, 2019
The 2020 mission of the ExoMars programme is expected to deliver a European rover and a Russian surface platform to the surface of Mars. The rover is expected to spend one year exploring the surface ... more

NASA's Mars Helicopter Attached to Mars 2020 Rover
Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 29, 2019
Engineers attached NASA's Mars Helicopter, which will be the first aircraft to fly on another planet, to the belly of the Mars 2020 rover in the High Bay 1 clean room at the Jet Propulsion Laborator ... more

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NASA Invites Students to Name Next Mars Rover
Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 29, 2019
Red rover, red rover, send a name for Mars 2020 right over! NASA is recruiting help from students nationwide to find a name for its next Mars rover mission. Starting Tuesday, K-12 students in ... more

ExoMars rover ready for environment testing
Paris (ESA) Aug 28, 2019
The Rosalind Franklin ExoMars rover has completed its construction activities in the UK and will now depart to France for testing under the conditions of the Red Planet's environment. The fina ... more

'Game-Changer' for Cosmic Research: NASA Chief Touts Nuclear Powered Spacecraft
Washington DC (Sputnik) Aug 23, 2019
Earlier this month, NASA's Future In-Space Operations working group said that its portable nuclear powered reactor will be ready to fly to Mars by 2022. Speaking at a National Space Council (N ... more

Scientists Explore Outback as Testbed for Mars
Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 27, 2019
This week, scientists from NASA's upcoming Mars 2020 mission joined their counterparts from the joint European-Russian ExoMars mission in an expedition to the Australian Outback, one of the most rem ... more

Atacama Desert microbes may hold clues to life on Mars
Washington DC (SPX) Aug 23, 2019
Microbial life on Mars may potentially be transported across the planet on dust particles carried by wind, according to a study conducted in the Atacama Desert in North Chile, a well-known Mars anal ... more

A step closer to solving the methane mystery on Mars
Canberra, Australia (SPX) Aug 22, 2019
Scientists have taken an important step towards revealing the mysterious source of methane on Mars, by refining estimates of the gas in the planet's atmosphere. The methane puffing from a huge ... more

Roscosmos postpones joint ESA ExoMars mission after failed parachute tests
Moscow (Sputnik) Aug 16, 2019
Russian State Space Corporation Roscosmos said in a statement on Thursday that the launch of the joint Russian-European ExoMars-2020 astrobiology mission, aimed at searching for evidence of life on ... more

NASA's portable trash bin-sized nuclear power module to be ready by 2022
Washington DC (Sputnik) Aug 14, 2019
The reactor is expected to fulfil a variety of tasks on the red planet, ranging from supplying astronauts with heat and air, to powering 3D printers that will be used for constructing buildings. ... more

All instruments onboard Rosalind Franklin rover
Paris (ESA) Aug 21, 2019
The full suite of scientific instruments, including cameras that will give us our eyes on Mars, the drill that will retrieve pristine soil samples from below the surface, and the onboard laboratory ... more

Robotic toolkit added to NASA's Mars 2020 Rover
Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 16, 2019
The bit carousel - a mechanism that will play a key role in the acquisition, containment and eventual return to Earth of humanity's first samples from another planet - has been incorporated into NAS ... more

Ancient Mars was warm with occasional rain, turning cold

Methane not released by wind on Mars, experts find
Newcastle UK (SPX) Aug 13, 2019
Wind erosion has been ruled out as the primary cause of methane gas release on Mars, Newcastle University academics have shown. Methane can be produced over time through both geological and bi ... more

NASA descends on Icelandic lava field to prepare for Mars
The Lambahraun Lava Field, Islande (AFP) Aug 14, 2019
To prepare for the next mission to Mars in 2020, NASA has taken to the lava fields of Iceland to get its new robotic space explorer ready for the job. ... more

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

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 chocol ... more

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

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

Chandrayaan-2 Completes Second De-Orbiting Manoeuvre Ahead of Historic Landing: ISRO
New Delhi (IANS) Sep 05, 2019

The second de-orbiting manoeuvre of Chandrayaan -2 spacecraft was successfully carried out early Wednesday, the Indian Space Research Organisation said, inching towards achieving a historic soft-landing on the lunar surface. The nine-second de-orbiting or retro-orbiting manoeuvre was executed at 3:42am using the onboard propulsion system, the space agency said. "With this manoeuvre, the re ... more

+ NASA Science Experiments to be Delivered to Moon by Commercial Landers

+ NASA Goddard Creates CGI Moon Kit as a Form of Visual Storytelling

+ India loses contact with spacecraft trying to land on Moon

+ India loses contact with Moon lander

+ Ttiny satellites that will pave the way to Luna

+ SLS Rocket Engine Section Completed for Artemis I

+ Pull Me to the Moon: Scientists Revolutionize Space Lift Concept to Save Cash on Lunar Missions

China's KZ-1A rocket launches two satellites
Jiuquan, China (XNA) Sep 02, 2019

Two satellites for technological experiments were sent into space by a Kuaizhou-1A, or KZ-1A, carrier rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China on Saturday. The rocket blasted off at 7:41 a.m. and sent the two satellites into their planned orbit. Kuaizhou-1A, meaning speedy vessel, is a low-cost solid-fuel carrier rocket with high reliability and a short prep ... more

+ China's newly launched communication satellite suffers abnormality

+ China launches first private rocket capable of carrying satellites

+ 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

Europe and US teaming up for asteroid deflection
Paris (ESA) Sep 04, 2019

Asteroid researchers and spacecraft engineers from the US, Europe and around the world will gather in Rome next week to discuss the latest progress in their common goal: an ambitious double-spacecraft mission to deflect an asteroid in space, to prove the technique as a viable method of planetary defence. This combined mission is known as the Asteroid Impact Deflection Assessment, or AIDA f ... more

+ OSIRIS-REx's final four sample site candidates in 3D

+ UCF Student Working as Image Analyst for NASA's OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Recovery Mission

+ Australia set to welcome JAXA's Hayabusa2

+ Arecibo Observatory Gets $19M NASA Grant to Help Protect Earth from Asteroids

+ Monster Asteroid Nearly Twice as Big as London's Shard Tower Heading Toward Earth - Report

+ New images from asteroid probe yield clues on planet formation

+ The near-Earth asteroid Ryugu - a fragile cosmic 'rubble pile'

Storms on Jupiter are disturbing the planet's colorful belts
Berkeley CA (SPX) Aug 23, 2019

Storm clouds rooted deep in Jupiter's atmosphere are affecting the planet's white zones and colorful belts, creating disturbances in their flow and even changing their color. Thanks to coordinated observations of the planet in January 2017 by six ground-based optical and radio telescopes and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, a University of California, Berkeley, astronomer and her colleagues ... more

+ ALMA shows what's inside Jupiter's storms

+ Young Jupiter was smacked head-on by massive newborn planet

+ Mission to Jupiter's icy moon confirmed

+ Giant Impact Disrupted Jupiter's Core

+ Young Jupiter Was Smacked Head-On by Massive Newborn Planet

+ Hubble showcases new portrait of Jupiter

+ Jupiter's auroras powered by alternating current

A brief astronomical history of Saturn's amazing rings
Los Angeles CA (The Conversation) Aug 15, 2019

Many dream of what they would do had they a time machine. Some would travel 100 million years back in time, when dinosaurs roamed the Earth. Not many, though, would think of taking a telescope with them, and if, having done so, observe Saturn and its rings. Whether our time-traveling astronomer would be able to observe Saturn's rings is debatable. Have the rings, in some shape or form, exi ... more

+ Yale researcher has a window seat for planning NASA's Dragonfly mission

+ 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

Philippine Airborne Campaign Targets Weather, Climate Science
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 27, 2019

NASA's P-3B science aircraft soared into the skies over the Philippines on Aug. 25 to begin a nearly two-month-long investigation on the impact that smoke from fires and pollution have on clouds, a key factor in improving weather and climate forecasts. The Cloud, Aerosol, and Monsoon Processes Philippines Experiment (CAMP2Ex) is the most comprehensive field campaign to date in Maritime Sou ... more

+ Raytheon-built space sensor will fly aboard NASA satellite to measure coastal and ocean ecosystems

+ NASA's ECOSTRESS Detects Amazon Fires from Space

+ New Landsat Infrared Instrument Ships from NASA

+ Capella Space partners with SpaceNet to expand access to SAR data

+ GRACE-FO shows the weight of Midwestern floods

+ Monitoring the Matterhorn with millions of data points

+ Making microbes that transform greenhouse gases

UAE Wants to Train More Astronauts for Arab World - Emirati Official
Dubai (Sputnik) Sep 04, 2019

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) plan to train more astronauts for the Arab world, Yousuf Hamad Al Shaibani, the director general of the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC), said on Monday. He was speaking on the occasion of the end of UAE future spacemen's examination training in Russia's Gagarin State Scientific Research and Testing Cosmonaut Training Center (GCTC). "Our mission ... more

+ Taking the next giant leaps

+ Malaysia Interested in Having Access to Russian Space Tech, Prime Minister Says

+ Voice-command ovens, robots for pets on show at Berlin's IFA tech fair

+ Space Station science return and spacecraft shuffle

+ Company Claims Orbital Hotel to Host 400 Space Tourists Will Be Operational By 2025

+ Circus reinvented in Montreal, this time with high-tech vibe

+ China's satellite tests pulsar navigation for future deep space exploration

Planetary collisions can drop the internal pressures in planets
Pasadena CA (SPX) Sep 05, 2019

A new study from Caltech shows that giant impacts can dramatically lower the internal pressure of planets, a finding that could significantly change the current model of planetary formation. The impacts, such as the one that is thought to have caused the formation of the earth's moon roughly 4.5 billion years ago, could cause random fluctuations in core and mantle pressures that would expl ... more

+ How to Spin a Disk Around Young Protostars

+ Potassium Detected in an Exoplanet Atmosphere

+ Deep-sea sediments reveal solar system chaos: An advance in dating geologic archives

+ Exoplanets Can't Hide Their Secrets from Innovative New Instrument

+ Hints of a volcanically active exomoon

+ Canadian astronomers determine Earth's fingerprint

+ The dark side of extrasolar planets share surprisingly similar temperatures

Iran unveils new reconnaissance and attack drone
Tehran (AFP) Sept 1, 2019

Iran on Sunday unveiled a jet-propelled drone it said is capable of finding and attacking targets far from the country's borders with precision. Dubbed the "Kian", the unmanned aerial vehicle was designed, produced and tested by experts of the air defence force within about a year, said the head of the force, Brigadier General Alireza Sabahifard. The drone comes in two models capable of ... more

+ Iraq paramilitary force says Israel behind latest drone attack

+ Hughes partners with startup to extend LTE Coverage using helicopters and UAVs

+ Drone buzzes above vineyard helping Luxembourg winegrower

+ Skyfront Perimeter Drone Performs The First Beyond-Line-of-Sight Flight under FAA Part 107

+ AFRL conducts first flight of robopilot unmanned air platform

+ Teams test swarm autonomy in second major OFFSET field experiment

+ S.Korea tests drone delivery in remote regions

It's not aurora, it's STEVE
Fairbanks AK (SPX) Sep 06, 2019

Aurora-watchers gazing at spectacular displays over the Labor Day weekend may have been seeing more than the northern lights. They may have been dazzled by STEVE as well. STEVE is short for the Strong Thermal Emissions Velocity Enhancement, a celestial phenomenon auroral researchers, citizen-scientists and photography enthusiasts first introduced to the world in 2016. STEVE's narrow ... more

+ NASA Selects Proposals to Advance Understanding of Space Weather

+ Streaks in Aurora Found to Map Features in Earth's Radiation Environment

+ Proposals selected for small satellites to study interplanetary space

+ NASA's MMS finds first interplanetary shock

+ Parker Solar Probe completes 2 orbits of Sun

+ Magnetic plasma pulses excited by UK-size swirls in the solar atmosphere

+ Researchers recreate the sun's solar wind and plasma "burps" on Earth

Putin reveals he offered to sell Trump Russia's hypersonic missiles
Moscow (Sputnik) Sep 06, 2019

Earlier, in August, the US officially withdrew from the INF treaty and conducted a ground-based medium-range missile test just a few weeks after. Russian president Putin then ordered the Defence Ministry to formulate an appropriate response to the testing. Vladimir Putin revealed during the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok that he offered to sell Russia's newest weapons to Donald Trum ... more

+ Russia Launches Rokot Space Rocket to Orbit Military Satellite

+ Russian Space Agency to Test Modernized Fregat Upper Stage During Launch of Meteor Satellite in 2020

+ Trump says US 'not involved' in Iranian rocket failure

+ Lockheed Martin's Expertise In Hypersonic Flight Wins New Army Work

+ Engine Section for NASA's SLS Rocket Moved for Final Integration

+ US Sanctions Iran's Space Agency, Space Research Centre Days After Failed Satellite Launch

+ Dynetics, Raytheon producing glide bodies for hypersonic weapon prototypes

Observed explosion of monster star requires new supernova mechanism
Boston MA (SPX) Aug 16, 2019

Scientists at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard and Smithsonian have announced the discovery of the most massive star ever known to be destroyed by a supernova explosion, challenging known models of how massive stars die and providing insight into the death of the first stars in the universe. First noticed in November 2016 by the European Space Agency's (ESA) Gaia satellite, three year ... more

+ NASA Satellite Spots a Mystery That's Gone in a Flash

+ Study Reveals 'Radical' Wrinkle in Forming Complex Carbon Molecules in Space

+ Telescope for NASA's WFIRST Mission Advances to New Phase of Development

+ Scientists discover a new type of pulsating star

+ Space dragons: Researchers observe energy consumption in quasars

+ Cluster and XMM-Newton Pave the Way for SMILE Mission

+ Maximum mass of lightest neutrino revealed using astronomical big data

UN offers use of ESA's hypergravity centrifuge to researchers worldwide
Noordwijk, Netherlands (SPX) Sep 06, 2019

Imagine being able to increase the force of gravity simply by turning a dial. A United Nations fellowship is offering this opportunity to researchers all over the world, through access to ESA's hypergravity-generating Large Diameter Centrifuge. Manipulate gravity and a lot of other factors shift too: bubbles in liquid alter their behaviour, convection currents accelerate and metal alloys f ... more

+ A key piece to understanding how quantum gravity affects low-energy physics

+ 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

And then there was light: looking for the first stars in the Universe
Canberra, Australia (SPX) Sep 09, 2019

Astronomers are closing in on a signal that has been travelling across the Universe for 12 billion years, bringing them nearer to understanding the life and death of the very earliest stars. In a paper on the preprint site arXiv and soon to be published in the Astrophysical Journal, a team led by Dr Nichole Barry from Australia's University of Melbourne and the ARC Centre of Excellence for ... more

+ Pulsar Emission Map Thanks to Einstein

+ Entanglement sent over 50 km of optical fiber

+ Towards an 'orrery' for quantum gauge theory

+ NASA Activates Deep Space Atomic Clock

+ Closing in on elusive particles

+ Scientists measure precise proton radius to help resolve decade-old puzzle

+ General Atomics Orbital Test Bed Satellite Payload Commissioning Underway

'Sense of urgency', as top tech players seek AI ethical rules
Geneva (AFP) Sept 2, 2019

Top players in global tech companies kicked off work Monday to draw up global ethical standards related to data and artificial intelligence, with Microsoft's president voicing a "sense of urgency". Some two dozen high-ranking representatives of the global and Swiss economies, as well as scientists and academics, met in Geneva for the first Swiss Global Digital Summit aimed at seeking agreeme ... more

+ Russian robot 'Fedor' leaves ISS

+ Russian Humanoid Robot Fedor Announces Full Implementation of Flight Test Program

+ Psychosensory electronic skin technology for future AI and humanoid development

+ CIMON back on Earth after 14 months on the ISS

+ NASA Robots Compete Underground in DARPA Challenge

+ Russian humanoid robot boards space station after delay

+ Russia sends 'Fedor' its first humanoid robot into space

China's KZ-1A rocket launches two satellites
Jiuquan, China (XNA) Sep 02, 2019

+ China's newly launched communication satellite suffers abnormality

+ China launches first private rocket capable of carrying satellites

+ 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

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