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Suitcase Science On The Moon
Huntsville AL (SPX) Aug 20, 2007In October 1963, two cartographers with the Air Force Aeronautical Chart and Information Center saw a strange glow on the moon. Using the 24-inch refractor telescope at Lowell observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, James Greenacre and Edward Barr saw a deep, ruby-red glow coming from the crater Aristarchus. The sighting might have been glowing gas from volcanic activity, and a second sighting in Nov ... more Frigid Enceladus: An Unlikely Harbor For Life 
Champaign IL (SPX) Aug 17, 2007A new model of Saturn's icy moon Enceladus may quell hopes of finding life there. Developed by researchers at the University of Illinois, the model explains the most salient observations on Enceladus without requiring the presence of liquid water. Orbiting Saturn since June 30, 2004, the Cassini spacecraft has revealed a south polar region of Enceladus with an elaborate arrangement of frac ... more NASA Issues Draft Environmental Impact Statement For Constellation Programme 
Washington DC (SPX) Aug 15, 2007NASA has issued a draft environmental impact statement on potential environmental impacts associated with the Constellation Program. NASA's Constellation Program is developing a space transportation system that is designed to return humans to the moon by 2020. The Draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement concludes that localized and global environmental impacts associated with implementing ... more SSTL To Develop Low Cost Lunar Orbiter For NASA 
London UK (SPX) Aug 15, 2007Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) has been awarded a contract for the study phase of a potential joint US-UK lunar orbiter mission to be called Magnolia. This first phase of the contract will run for 9-months, culminating in a preliminary mission design. The contract includes a package of training by SSTL and the University of Surrey that will allow Mississippi State University and NASA ... more NASA Design Challenge Registration Opens 
Washington (UPI) Aug 09, 2007The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has opened registration for its Lunar Plant Growth Chamber engineering challenge. Participating students will design and build greenhouse chambers to analyze and study plant growth from some of the 10 million cinnamon basil seeds that are to be flown into space aboard space shuttle Endeavour this week and then returned to Earth. The student ... more |
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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 Researchers Produce Images Of Gases Escaping From Io 
Boston MA (SPX) Jul 29, 2007Boston University (BU) researchers published today 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 ... more |
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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 NASA Robots Practice Moon Survey In The Arctic Circle 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Jul 21, 2007Two NASA robots are surveying a rocky, isolated polar desert within a crater in the Arctic Circle. The study will help scientists learn how robots could evaluate potential outposts on the moon or Mars. The robots, K10 Black and K10 Red, carry 3-D laser scanners and ground-penetrating radar. The team arrived at Haughton Crater at Devon Island, Canada, on July 12 and will operate the machines un ... more
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