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| November 18, 2008 |  |
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 Tucson AZ (SPX) Nov 18, 2008 
An international team of scientists who analyzed data from the Gamma Ray Spectrometer onboard NASA's Mars Odyssey reports new evidence for the controversial idea that oceans once covered about a third of ancient Mars. "We compared Gamma Ray Spectrometer data on potassium, thorium and iron above and below a shoreline believed to mark an ancient ocean that covered a third of Mars' surface ... read more 
Paris, France (ESA) Nov 18, 2008X-ray and gamma-ray data from ESA's XMM-Newton and Integral orbiting observatories has been used to test, for the first time, the physical processes that make magnetars, an atypical class of neutron stars, shine in X-rays. Neutron stars are remnants of massive stars (10-50 times as massive as our Sun) that have collapsed on to themselves under their own weight. Made almost entirely of ... more
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Providence, R.I. (UPI) Nov 17, 2008 Researchers at Brown University and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., say they're checking the lunar poles for evidence of ice. Carle Pieters, a planetary geologist at the Providence, R.I., university, and her colleagues will be analyzing data from one of 11 instruments aboard the Indian spacecraft Chandrayaan-1 that began orbiting the moon earlier in November, the ... more  
Houston TX (SPX) Nov 18, 2008Nations around the world will join together to mark a milestone in space exploration this week, celebrating the 10th birthday of a unique research laboratory, the International Space Station. Now the largest spacecraft ever built, the orbital assembly of the space station began with the launch from Kazakhstan of its first bus-sized component, Zarya, on Nov. 20, 1998. The launch began an in ... more 
Houghton MI (SPX) Nov 18, 2008Two hundred and fifty miles above the Earth puts you a long way from the nearest kitchen tap. And at $10,000 a pint, the cost of shipping fresh water aboard the space shuttle is, well, astronomical. So astronauts on the International Space Station have to recapture every possible drop. That includes water evaporated from showers, shaving, tooth brushing and hand washing, plus perspiration ... more 
Washington (AFP) Nov 17, 2008Astronauts aboard the US space shuttle Endeavour and International Space Station on Monday prepared for their first spacewalk of the mission after the two spacecraft linked up 223 miles (360 kilometers) above the South Pacific Ocean. Endeavour docked at the ISS on Sunday almost 48 hours into its 15-day mission to expand the living quarters of the orbiting space station. "Welcome Endeavour ... more |
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Bethesda MD (SPX) Nov 18, 2008There is so much space debris in low orbits around the Earth, we wish Chicken Little were right about the sky falling-at least when it comes to debris that is cluttering up our space environment and starting to truly interfere with use of space. This man-made debris is clogging up active satellite traffic lanes and the situation is getting worse. As we approach space gridlock, space will ... more  
Washington (AFP) Nov 16, 2008Need help setting up that home computer or Internet connection? Frustrated by that new cell phone? You're not alone. A survey released on Sunday found that nearly half of Americans need help from others booting up their new devices, and an even larger percentage need outside assistance when they encounter technical problems. "A new gadget or service can become popular well before the ... more  
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Nov 18, 2008The launch of a Proton-M rocket with a Ciel 2 Canadian telecommunications satellite on board has been scheduled for December 10 from the Baikonur space center which Russia leases from Kazakhstan. "By the end of November it is planned to prepare the rocket's three stages and the acceleration unit, as well as the payload fairing, the adapter system and the Ciel 2 spacecraft for subsequent as ... more |
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