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A Dreamy Lunar Eclipse For August Skies
Huntsville AL (MSFC) Aug 05, 2007Close your eyes, breathe deeply, let your mind wander to a distant seashore: It's late in the day, and the western sun is sinking into the glittering waves. At your feet, damp sand reflects the twilight, while overhead, the deep blue sky fades into a cloudy melange of sunset copper and gold, so vivid it almost takes your breath away. A breeze touches the back of your neck, and you turn to see a ... more NASA Spacecraft Heads For Polar Region Of Mars 
Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Aug 04, 2007NASA's Phoenix Mars Mission blasted off Saturday, aiming for a May 25, 2008, arrival at the Red Planet and a close-up examination of the surface of the northern polar region. Perched atop a Delta II rocket, the spacecraft left Cape Canaveral Air Force Base at 5:26 a.m. Eastern Time into the predawn sky above Florida's Atlantic coast. "Today's launch is the first step in the long journey to ... more Seeing The Moon Anew 
Houston TX (SPX) Aug 05, 2007Nearly 40 years after man first walked on the Moon, the complete lunar photographic record from the Apollo project will be accessible to both researchers and the general public on the Internet. A new digital archive - created through a collaboration between Arizona State University and NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston - is making available high-resolution scans of original Apollo flight fi ... more NASA Selects Astrophysics Projects For New Science On The Moon 
Washington (SPX) Aug 03, 2007NASA has selected four proposals focusing on astrophysics priorities in lunar science to facilitate the nation's exploration program. The proposed studies are part of a NASA effort to develop new opportunities to conduct important science investigations during the planned renewal of human exploration of the moon. The newly-announced proposals for concept studies may lead to experiments placed on ... more Cassini Finds Possible Origin Of One Of Saturn's Rings 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Aug 03, 2007Cassini scientists may have identified the source of one of Saturn's more mysterious rings. Saturn's G ring likely is produced by relatively large, icy particles that reside within a bright arc on the ring's inner edge. The particles are confined within the arc by gravitational effects from Saturn's moon Mimas. Micrometeoroids collide with the particles, releasing smaller, dust-sized particles t ... more |
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Huntsville AL (SPX) Jul 24, 2007Accelerating from 0 to 60 then slowing down for a stop light is no problem for an ordinary automobile. But if you were piloting a rocketship, it wouldn't be so easy. Most rocket engines are designed to burn full-on (liftoff!) or full-off (coasting through space) with no in-between. And that can be a problem--namely, how do you land this thing? Throttling is crucial for a planetary lander. ... more Researchers Produce Images Of Gases Escaping From Jupiter Moon Io 
Boston MA (SPX) Jul 21, 2007Boston University researchers have published the first clear evidence of how gases from Jupiter's tiny moon's volcanoes can lead to the largest visible gas cloud in the solar system. Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, has a moon named Io that is just 100 km larger in radius than Earth's Moon. According to lead researcher Michael Mendillo, professor of electrical and computer engine ... more From Dark Obscurity A Tiny New Saturnian Moon Comes To Light 
Boulder C0 (SPX) Jul 21, 2007Like a hawk's eyes, the high resolution cameras on NASA's Cassini spacecraft have spotted yet another small, previously unknown moon circling giant Saturn and one which may indicate the existence of other small bodies in the same region. The tiny world--presently thought to be only about 2 kilometers (1 mile) wide--orbits at 197,700 kilometers (122,800 miles) from Saturn. Until a name for the mo ... more Where To Next For The NASA Discovery Program 
Cameron Park CA (SPX) Jul 21, 2007The next full-scale mission to be selected for the Discovery Program will be selected in early October, from a set of three finalists including a near-Earth asteroid sample-return mission (which would be very rewarding scientifically, but is already perilously close to the program's official mission cost limit), or a Venus orbiter or lunar orbiter (which would be cheaper, but also somewhat less ... more |
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London (UPI) Jul 20, 2007A huge lake hidden beneath Darfur and detected by radar from space could be the key to saving lives in the arid, war-torn region. Plans are under way to dig 1,000 wells that could provide water and help stop the region's war, The Telegraph reported Thursday. A team led by a veteran of NASA's Apollo lunar exploration program used satellite equipment to compose a picture of the 12,000-square-mile ... more Saturn Moon Iapetus Retains Its Youthful Figure 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Jul 18, 2007Saturn's distinctive moon Iapetus is cryogenically frozen in the equivalent of its teenage years. The moon has retained the youthful figure and bulging waistline it sported more than three billion years ago, scientists report. "Iapetus spun fast, froze young, and left behind a body with lasting curves," said Julie Castillo, Cassini scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. ... more Moonshine Can Reflect Lunar Composition 
Phoenix (UPI) Jul 18, 2007U.S. scientists determined that they can predict concentrations of certain minerals on the moon by comparing variations in reflected light. Samples of lunar rocks returned by U.S. astronauts show large variations in titanium oxide concentrations, suggesting complex compositional zonation within the lunar mantle. M.S. Robinson of Arizona State University and colleagues, noting ilminite has ... more NASA Awards Upper Stage Engine Contract For Ares Rockets 
Washington DC (SPX) Jul 17, 2007NASA has signed a $1.2 billion contract with Pratt and Whitney Rocketdyne Inc., of Canoga Park, Calif., for design, development, testing and evaluation of the J-2X engine that will power the upper stages of the Ares I and Ares V launch vehicles. The contract includes ground and test flight engines. It continues work that began on June 2, 2006, under a preliminary letter contract with Pratt and W ... more
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