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NASA embarks on a landmark mission of lunar exploration this week with the launch of probes to scout for water sources and landing sites, in a bid to lead humanity back on the first visit to the moon since 1972. The US space agency, with its eye on sending astronauts to Earth's natural satellite by 2020, is on course to blast off the dual LRO and LCROSS missions on Thursday atop an Atlas V ... read more 
Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Jun 16, 2009NASA managers have scheduled the next launch attempt of space shuttle Endeavour's STS-127 mission for 5:40 a.m. EDT on Wednesday, June 17. The launch will take place at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. As a result, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, and Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS, are set to lift off together aboard an Atlas V rocket on Thursday ... more
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Vietnam says parched Red River at record low
China to be world's third biggest wind power producer: media Cost-cutting NASA eyes three cheap space missions Honduras declares state of emergency amid drought Russia in secret plan to save Earth from asteroid: official Sarkozy scrambles to salvage carbon tax French carbon tax ruled illegal Brazil's Lula signs law cutting CO2 emissions 2009 a 'benign' year of natural disasters: German re-insurer Greenpeace Spain demands Denmark release its director 
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Boston MA (SPX) Jun 16, 2009The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum has announced an interactive new website to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the first moon landing and President Kennedy's grand vision that made that achievement possible. WeChooseTheMoon.org will go live at 9:32 a.m. on July 16th, 2009 - exactly 40 years to the minute after the historic launch. The site, powered by AOL, will recreate ... more  
Rochester NY (SPX) Jun 16, 2009With this week's scheduled launch of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, imaging technology from Eastman Kodak Company will again play a key role in the exploration of our solar system. Using images captured by KODAK CCD Image Sensors, the orbiter will be used to create a comprehensive atlas of the moon's features and resources to aid in the design of a future manned lunar outpost. The Lunar ... more 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Jun 15, 2009NASA robots soon will begin exploring the dusty, rocky terrain of a barren desert on Earth much like the moon. Scientists and engineers will study the images and information the robots gather to help plan where humans should venture next. To simulate robots scouting on the lunar surface before a human space crew arrives, the "K10 Red" and "K10 Black" robots developed at NASA Ames Research ... more  
Orlando FL (SPX) Jun 15, 2009A lunar eclipse helped a group of international scientists take a snapshot of earth's chemical fingerprint, which could help to identify planets most similar to earth where life may be thriving. University of Central Florida Associate Professor Eduardo Martin was a member of the team that made the observation, which is published in the June 11 edition of Nature magazine. The team use ... more |
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Training solar panels to adapt to wind conditionsParis, France (SPX) Dec 18, 2024 Solar energy continues to lead the renewable energy revolution, with solar photovoltaic power plants serving as a key technology in achieving global NetZero Emissions by 2050. These plants convert s ... more  
Buried interface engineering drives advances in tin-lead perovskite solar cell efficiencySydney, Australia (SPX) Dec 20, 2024 A team led by Prof. Meng Li from Henan University's School of Nanoscience and Materials Engineering has unveiled an innovative approach to overcoming stability and efficiency challenges in tin-lead ... more 
New solar material advances green hydrogen productionSydney, Australia (SPX) Dec 20, 2024 Researchers in nano-scale chemistry have made a significant stride in advancing the sustainable and efficient production of hydrogen from water using solar energy. A collaborative internationa ... more
  
DR Congo sues Apple over alleged illegal mineral exploitationParis (AFP) Dec 17, 2024 DR Congo on Tuesday filed a criminal case against European subsidiaries of tech giant Apple, accusing them of illegally using "blood minerals" in its supply chain. ... more 
Breakthrough new material brings affordable, sustainable future within graspHouston TX (SPX) Dec 23, 2024 While lithium-ion batteries have been the go-to technology for everything from smartphones and laptops to electric cars, there are growing concerns about the future because lithium is relatively sca ... more 
Geothermal aquifers show green energy promise but require quality monitoringTokyo, Japan (SPX) Dec 23, 2024 The aquifer thermal energy storage (ATES) system, a renewable energy innovation leveraging geothermal heat, is gaining traction as a method to cut fuel use and reduce carbon dioxide emissions. By st ... more |
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Hampton VA (SPX) Jun 09, 2009The results of the second annual NASA Lunar Art Contest are out-of-this-world productions from high school and college students from around the globe. "Crater Core Sample," a painting by Zachary Madere of the Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design in Lakewood, Colo., was judged the best of more than 90 imaginative entries. The painting shows an astronaut holding an icy cylinder in a dark ... more 
Troy NY (SPX) Jun 09, 2009Lunar eclipses are well-documented throughout human history. The rare and breathtaking phenomena, which occur when the moon passes into the Earth's shadow and seemingly changes shape, color, or disappears from the night sky completely, caught the attention of poets, farmers, leaders, and scientists alike. Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a new method for using ... more  
Paris, France (ESA) Jun 08, 2009A pilot plant inaugurated in Barcelona, Spain, is testing regenerative life support system technologies that could one day recycle waste products and supply essential food, water and oxygen to humans living on the surface of the Moon or Mars. MELiSSA, short for Micro-Ecological Life Support System Alternative, is an artificial ecosystem to recover food, water and oxygen from ... more 
Boston MA (SPX) Jun 08, 2009Many people consider the Apollo lunar landings one of the crowning achievements of human ingenuity. But not so many people realize that the epochal first steps by human beings on another world - which took place 40 years ago next month - likely would not have been possible without the technological experience and capabilities of MIT. In celebration of that singular accomplishment and MIT's ... more |
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NASA probe makes closest ever pass by the Sun
Texas A and M researchers illuminate the mysteries of icy ocean worlds
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