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October 16, 2014
MARSDAILY
MAVEN spacecraft's first look at Mars holds surprises
Boulder CO (SPX) Oct 16, 2014
NASA's MAVEN spacecraft has provided scientists their first look at a storm of energetic solar particles at Mars and produced unprecedented ultraviolet images of the tenuous oxygen, hydrogen and carbon coronas surrounding the Red Planet, said University of Colorado Boulder Professor Bruce Jakosky, the mission's principal investigator. In addition, the new observations allowed scientists to make a comprehensive map of highly variable ozone in the Martian atmosphere underlying the coronas, he said. ... read more
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TERRADAILY

Earth's magnetic field could flip within a human lifetime
Imagine the world waking up one morning to discover that all compasses pointed south instead of north. It's not as bizarre as it sounds. Earth's magnetic field has flipped - though not overnight - m ... more
VENUSIAN HEAT

Rediscovering Venus to Find Faraway Earths
Astronomers Chih-Hao Li and David Phillips of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics want to rediscover Venus-that familiar, nearby planet stargazers can see with the naked eye much of the ... more
STATION NEWS

ISS Spacewalkers Replace Power Regulator, Move Equipment
Two NASA astronauts wrapped up a 6-hour, 34-minute spacewalk at 2:50 p.m. EDT Wednesday to replace a failed power regulator. Flight Engineers Reid Wiseman and Barry Wilmore also relocated equipment ... more
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EXO WORLDS

Getting To Know Super-Earths
"If you have a coin and flip it just once, what does that tell you about the odds of heads versus tails?" asks Heather Knutson, assistant professor of planetary science at Caltech. "It tells you alm ... more


OUTER PLANETS

Hubble Telescope Finds Potential Kuiper Belt Targets for New Horizons Pluto Mission
Peering out to the dim, outer reaches of our solar system, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered three Kuiper Belt objects (KBOs) the agency's New Horizons spacecraft could potentially visit a ... more
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RUSSIAN SPACE

Russian 'Smart' Mini-Satellites to Go Into Orbit in 2016
The first group of Russian "smart" mini-satellites should be launched into orbit in 2016, Mikhail Sonkin, the Deputy Governor of Russia's Tomsk Region, said Wednesday. "The signing of an agree ... more
IRON AND ICE

ESA confirms the primary landing site for Rosetta
ESA has given the green light for its Rosetta mission to deliver its lander, Philae, to the primary site on 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on 12 November, in the first-ever attempt at a soft touchdown on ... more
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EXO WORLDS

Astronomers Spot Faraway Uranus-Like Planet
Our view of other solar systems just got a little more familiar, with the discovery of a planet 25,000 light-years away that resembles our own Uranus. Astronomers have discovered hundreds of p ... more
MARSDAILY

NASA Mission Provides Its First Look at Martian Upper Atmosphere
NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft has provided scientists their first look at a storm of energetic solar particles at Mars, produced unprecedented ultraviolet images o ... more
IRON AND ICE

Rosetta Selflessly Beams Back Comet Selfie
A camera aboard the European Space Agency's Philae lander snapped this "selfie" of one of the Rosetta spacecraft's 52-foot-long (16-meter) solar arrays, with comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko hovering ... more
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SKY NIGHTLY

Slow-Growing Galaxies Offer Window to Early Universe
What makes one rose bush blossom with flowers, while another remains barren? Astronomers ask a similar question of galaxies, wondering how some flourish with star formation and others barely bloom. ... more
EARTH OBSERVATION

Chinese scientist proposes new scientific satellites
A Chinese scientist has proposed a series of satellites to monitor "global change," or planetary-scale changes concerning the Earth. Speaking at the ongoing Asia-Pacific Remote Sensing Symposi ... more
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TECH SPACE

Unstoppable magnetoresistance
Mazhar Ali, a fifth-year graduate student in the laboratory of Bob Cava, the Russell Wellman Moore Professor of Chemistry at Princeton University, has spent his academic career discovering new super ... more
TIME AND SPACE

Getting sharp images from dull detectors
Observing the quantum behavior of light is a big part of Alan Migdall's research at the Joint Quantum Institute. Many of his experiments depend on observing light in the form of photons---the partic ... more
IRON AND ICE

Europe gives green light for comet landing site
The European Space Agency (ESA) confirmed Wednesday its choice of the site for a historic unmanned landing next month on a comet in deep space. ... more
NANO TECH

DNA nano-foundries cast custom-shaped metal nanoparticles
Researchers at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University have unveiled a new method to form tiny 3D metal nanoparticles in prescribed shapes and dimensions using ... more
STATION NEWS

ISS crew working fast to reconfigure docking, electrical systems
NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman and Barry Wilmore donned spacesuits and stepped outside the International Space Station on Wednesday morning to repair a broken component in one of the eight solar power channels that provide the station's NASA-built grid with electricity. ... more

TECH SPACE

Advances in additive manufacturing using lasers helps produce metallic parts
Laser Solid Forming (LSF) is an innovative method for direct fabrication of metallic components in additive manufacturing. Renowned researchers Weidong Huang and Lin Xin, from China's Northwestern P ... more
TECH SPACE

Of bio-hairpins and polymer-spaghetti
When a basically sturdy material becomes soft and spongy, one usually suspects that it has been damaged in some way. But this is not always the case, especially when it comes to complex fluids and b ... more
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TECH SPACE

Major Grant To Fund Research Into Advanced, Economically Viable Bioproducts

MARSDAILY

Humans may only survive 68 days on Mars: study

SPACE TRAVEL

Space Trips To Change World For Better: Virgin Galactic CEO

STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Leaky, Star-Forming Galaxies Help Understanding The Universe

STATION NEWS

ISS Crew Relations Not Affected by Ukrainian Conflict

SPACE SCOPES

MIRI and NIRSpec, ADS Instruments For Webb Telescope Pass Cryogenic Vacuum Test

SPACE SCOPES

Hubble Catches a Dusty Spiral in Virgo

LAUNCH PAD

Arianespace's December mission for DIRECTV-14 and GSAT-16 satellites in process

STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Measurements on Cl-36 samples refute decay rate on distance between Earth and Sun

AEROSPACE

NMSU helps NASA's Scientific Balloon Program achieve rare feat

China's ailing moon rover weakening

Moons Can Help Planets Remain Stable Long Enough for Life to Form

New ASU, Nature journal to highlight spaceflight research

First Light for MAVEN

The heat is on

NASA Exercises Authority to Proceed with Commercial Crew Contracts

Alternative Earths Team To Join NASA Astrobiology Institute

ISRO to Launch India's Third Navigation Satellite on October 16

Russian Luna-25 Mission to Cost Billions

New Batch of Lunar Soil to be Delivered to Earth in 2023-2025

NASA Mission Finds Widespread Evidence of Young Lunar Volcanism

Russia to make Moon exploration core part of space program

MIT study finds 'Mars One' passengers could die of starvation

Li pledges China will boost innovation, creativity

Zooming in on 67P Churyumov-Gerasimenko

A cost-effective and energy-efficient approach to carbon capture

Researchers: Volcanoes on the moon recently active

'Superglue' for the atmosphere

NASA Prepares its Science Fleet for Oct. 19 Mars Comet Encounter

US resists extension of Iran nuclear talks

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