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Complex Liquid Hydrocarbon World Unveiled On Saturn's Titan
Bonn, Germany (SPX) Jul 31, 2008Until now, the Earth was considered to be the only place in the solar system where it rains and where precipitation feeds streams which eventually drain into standing bodies of water. But using the Cassini space probe, a group of researchers which includes scientists of the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) have now discovered a lake on Saturn's moon Titan. ... more NASA Tests Parachute For Ares Rocket 
Huntsville AL (SPX) Jul 30, 2008NASA and industry engineers have successfully completed the first drop test of a drogue parachute for the Ares I rocket. The drogue parachute is designed to slow the rapid descent of the spent first-stage motor, cast off by the Ares I rocket during its climb to space. The successful test is a key early milestone in development and production of the Ares I rocket, the first launch vehicle ... more LockMart Takes Students And Teachers On A Virtual Journey To The Moon 
Denver CO (SPX) Jul 29, 2008Lockheed Martin, the Space Foundation and SpaceClass have announced the launch of a strategic online education collaboration called Orion's Path. The interactive virtual classroom project will form a link between teachers, students and NASA's human space exploration program known as Constellation. Orion is the crew exploration vehicle being designed and built by NASA and its prime contract ... more Solar Eclipse Expedition 
Williamstown MA (SPX) Jul 29, 2008On Friday, August 1, 2008, the moon will pass in front of the sun, blocking the everyday solar surface. When that happens, it gets a million times darker outside, allowing the faint outer layers of the sun to be seen and studied. Scientists Jay Pasachoff and Bryce Babcock of Williams College are leading an expedition to Siberia so as to station themselves and their equipment in the path of ... more Multinational Agreement Signed To Carry Out Lunar Exploration 
Silicon Valley CA (PTI) Jul 28, 2008India, along with seven other countries, has signed a landmark agreement with the United States to carry out lunar exploration. The agreement was signed at American space agency NASA's Ames Research Centre here this week and it would be formally announced on Tuesday. Apart from India, the countries which signed the pact with the US are Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and ... more |
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Columbus OH (SPX) Jul 25, 2008The same Ohio State University researcher who is helping rovers navigate on Mars is leading a new effort to help humans navigate on the moon. When NASA returns to the moon -- the space agency has set a target date of 2020 to do so -- astronauts won't be able to use a global positioning system (GPS) to find their way around, explained Ron Li, the Lowber B. Strange Designated Professor of ... more Space focus shifts back toward moon 
Moffett Field, Calif. (UPI) Jul 22, 2008 Hundreds of scientists are meeting this week in California as part of the celebration of the 39th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing on the moon. The Lunar Science Conference at NASA Ames Research Center, which runs through Wednesday, was designed to give scientists an opportunity to review the state of knowledge of the moon, the evolution of the solar system, effects of the lunar ... more ILO Instrument On Odyssey Moon's Google Lunar X PRIZE Mission 
Mountain View CA (SPX) Jul 22, 2008The world's first astronomical observatory bound for the Moon was announced as a joint venture between the International Lunar Observatory Association (ILOA) and Google Lunar X PRIZE contender Odyssey Moon Limited. A dual function ILO precursor instrument demonstrating observation and communication techniques will be part of the scientific and commercial payloads aboard Odyssey Moon's ... more NASA's Deep Impact Films Earth As An Alien World 
College Park MD (SPX) Jul 18, 2008NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft has created a video of the moon transiting (passing in front of) Earth as seen from the spacecraft's point of view 31 million miles away. Scientists are using the video to develop techniques to study alien worlds. "Making a video of Earth from so far away helps the search for other life-bearing planets in the Universe by giving insights into how a distant ... more |
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Huntsville AL (SPX) Jul 10, 2008A gigantic telescope on the Moon has been a dream of astronomers since the dawn of the space age. A lunar telescope the same size as Hubble (2.4 meters across) would be a major astronomical research tool. One as big as the largest telescope on Earth-10.4 meters across-would see far more than any Earth-based telescope because the Moon has no atmosphere. But why stop there? In the Moon's ... more China Almost Done With Map Of Moon Surface 
Beijing (XNA) Jul 08, 2008China had collected all the data needed to draw its first full map of the moon surface and was almost done with the mapping work, Sun Jiadong, the chief designer of the country's Chang'e -1 lunar probe has said. The lunar probe, launched on October 24 last year, was running sound and well, Sun was quoted as saying by Sunday's Beijing News. China published its first picture of the moo ... more 30 Years Since Charon Reveals Pluto To Be A Binary Planet System 
Boulder CO (SPX) Jul 07, 2008This week the New Horizons mission team celebrates the 30th anniversary of the discovery of Pluto's largest and first moon, Charon, by U.S. Naval Observatory astronomers James Christy and Robert Harrington. Charon, whose discovery was officially announced on July 7, 1978, orbits nearly 11,390 miles (about 18,220 kilometers) from Pluto's surface and has a diameter of about 750 miles (1,210 ... more Eight Teams Taking Up ESA's Lunar Robotics Challenge 
Paris, France (ESA) Jul 03, 2008As interest in exploration of the Moon soars among the world's space agencies, ESA, through it's General Studies Programme, has challenged university students to develop a robotic vehicle that is capable of working in difficult terrain, comparable to that found at the lunar poles. Eight university teams have been selected to proceed to the design stage of ESA's Lunar Robotics Challenge. ... more
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