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March 13, 2013
MARSDAILY
NASA Rover Finds Conditions Once Suited for Ancient Life on Mars
Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 13, 2013
An analysis of a rock sample collected by NASA's Curiosity rover shows ancient Mars could have supported living microbes. Scientists identified sulfur, nitrogen, hydrogen, oxygen, phosphorus and carbon - some of the key chemical ingredients for life - in the powder Curiosity drilled out of a sedimentary rock near an ancient stream bed in Gale Crater on the Red Planet last month. "A fundamental question for this mission is whether Mars could have supported a habitable environment," said Mic ... read more
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Grasshopper Successfully Completes 80M Hover Slam
On Thursday, March 7, 2013, SpaceX's Grasshopper doubled its highest leap to date to rise 24 stories or 80.1 meters (262.8 feet), hovering for approximately 34 seconds and landing safely using close ... more
LAUNCH PAD

Musk: 'I'd like to die on Mars'
SpaceX founder Elon Musk told the crowd at the South by Southwest festival in Texas Saturday said he'd like to fly to Mars before he dies. ... more
MARSDAILY

Maryland explores adaptations strategies for survival on Mars
Research from the University of Maryland School of Medicine has revealed key features in proteins needed for life to function on Mars and other extreme environments. The researchers, funded by NASA, ... more
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MARSDAILY

Curiosity Rover's Recovery Moving Forward
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity continues to move forward with assessment and recovery from a memory glitch that affected the rover's A-side computer. Curiosity has two computers that are redundant of o ... more


DRAGON SPACE

Shenzhou 10 - Next Stop: Jiuquan
In the past couple of weeks, Chinese news agencies and newspapers have carried a number of stories about the upcoming mission. The sources are official with the main one being the China Manned Space ... more
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GPS NEWS

Milestone for European navigation system
Galileo, Europe's rival to the US Global Positioning System (GPS), passed a milestone Tuesday when it pinpointed its first-ever ground location, the European Space Agency said. ... more
SPACE TRAVEL

Japan, US hold space cooperation talks
Japan and the United States held talks Monday on wide-ranging cooperation in space, including the satellite monitoring of ships, a joint statement said. ... more
Military Space News, Nuclear Weapons, Missile Defense
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Aerospacelab and Xona Unite to Transform Satellite Navigation
GITAI's robotic system triumphs in ISS demo
IRON AND ICE

Long Awaited, Comet PanSTARRS Now Glows in the Twilight
Look west around the middle of twilight on a clear evening this week, and with a little luck - and maybe binoculars - you might spot a one-time-only visitor newly arrived from very deep space. ... more
DEEP IMPACT

Russia mulls beacons and the bomb to thwart asteroids
Russian officials on Tuesday proposed ideas ranging from planting beacon transmitters on asteroids to megaton-sized nuclear strikes to avert the threat from meteor collisions with the Earth. ... more
EXO LIFE

Home toxic home
Most organisms would die in the volcanic sulfur pools of Yellowstone and Mount Etna. Robust simple algae call it home, and their secrets to survival could advance human medicine and bioremediation. ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

Teledyne Selected for NASA Engineering Contract
Teledyne Technologies has been selected as one of three contractors for NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center's (MSFC) Engineering Solutions and Prototyping (ESP) contract. The ESP contract is an ... more
SPACE SCOPES

NASA's SDO Observes Earth, Lunar Transits in Same Day
On March 2, 2013, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) entered its semiannual eclipse season, a period of three weeks when Earth blocks its view of the sun for a period of time each day. On ... more
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'Just staggering': UN says households waste 1 bn meals a day
Neolithic Mariners: Unveiling the Mediterranean's Oldest Boats
Greece to buy seven Canadian water bombers for wildfires
SPACE SCOPES

Space station to get special telescope
NASA says it's giving $4.4 million to five U.S. universities to help the agency build a telescope for deployment on the International Space Station in 2017. ... more
DEEP IMPACT

Southampton scientist investigates Russian meteor
Dr Hugh Lewis, Lecturer in Aerospace Engineering, has analysed the recent extraordinary Russian meteor event using the "NEOImpactor" tool, which was developed by researchers from the University and ... more
OZONE NEWS

NASA Pinpoints Causes of 2011 Arctic Ozone Hole
A combination of extreme cold temperatures, man-made chemicals and a stagnant atmosphere were behind what became known as the Arctic ozone hole of 2011, a new NASA study finds. Even when both poles ... more
OZONE NEWS
Lunar impacts created seas of molten rock

China to use modified rocket for moon landing mission

Water On The Moon: It's Been There All Along


OZONE NEWS
Maryland explores adaptations strategies for survival on Mars

NASA rover finds conditions once suited to life on Mars

Curiosity Rover's Recovery Moving Forward


OZONE NEWS
Wyle To Provide NASA Ongoing Support For Human Space Flight

Japan, US hold space cooperation talks

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OZONE NEWS
Shenzhou 10 - Next Stop: Jiuquan

China's fourth space launch center to be in use in two years

China to launch new manned spacecraft

ROCKET SCIENCE

J-2X Engine 'Goes the Distance' at Stennis
J-2X rocket engine testing continues at NASA's Stennis Space Center in Mississippi with the second in a series of tests conducted on Feb. 27. The 550-second, full-duration test provided critic ... more
MOON DAILY

Lunar impacts created seas of molten rock
Early in the Moon's history an ocean of molten rock covered its entire surface. As that lunar magma ocean cooled over millions of years, it differentiated to form the Moon's crust and mantle. But ac ... more
MERCURY RISING

The mercury rises for BepiColombo
The engineering model of the BepiColombo Mercury Transfer Module has completed a 12-day Sun-simulation test inside the Large Space Simulator at ESA's test centre in the Netherlands, where it receive ... more
LAUNCH PAD

Ariane 5 vehicle for next ATV resupply mission in Kourou
The Spaceport's Final Assembly Building has welcomed its second Ariane 5 of 2013 as preparations in French Guiana advance for Arianespace's fourth heavy-lift launch of an Automated Transfer Vehicle ... more
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MARSDAILY

NASA rover finds conditions once suited to life on Mars

EXO LIFE

Dispute over Antarctic 'unidentified' life

SPACE SCOPES

The Closest Star System Found in a Century

BLUE SKY

Atmospheric electricity affects cloud height

ROCKET SCIENCE

Breakthrough Propulsion Physics

SOLAR DAILY

Russia plans giant solar power station to orbit Earth

EXO WORLDS

Astronomers Conduct First Remote Reconnaissance of Another Solar System

MERCURY RISING

Planetary Data System Releases MESSENGER Data from Third Mercury Solar Day

EARTH OBSERVATION

GOCE: the first seismometer in orbit

IRON AND ICE

Comet PANSTARRS Rises to the Occasion Mid-March

Rhea Rev 183 Raw Preview

New NIST time code to boost reception for radio-controlled clocks

Significant reduction in temperature and vegetation seasonality over northern latitudes

Solar Wind Energy Source Discovered

Russian satellite hit by remnants of destroyed Chinese spacecraft

INRS overcomes a hurdle in the development of terahertz lasers

Improving Electronics by Solving Nearly Century-old Problem

Probing Extreme Matter Through Observations Of Neutron Stars

SSBV And zero2infinity Team Up For Airdrop Recovery

Cassini Makes Last Close Flyby of Saturnian Moon Rhea

Neptec wins contract to develop cameras for European Space Agency's ExoMars Programme

Boeing to Offer Inmarsat-4 Bandwidth to Commercial Customers

Wyle To Provide NASA Ongoing Support For Human Space Flight

Hubble Finds Birth Certificate of Oldest Known Star

Pan-STARRS Finds a "Lost" Supernova

Smartphone satellite "STRaND-1" operational in orbit

CSI: Milky Way

Measuring the universe more accurately than ever before

New 3-D reconstructions show buried flood channels on Mars

Combat Ops Space Cell: Defending critical satellite links

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