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October 20, 2014

Mars Odyssey Orbiter Watches Comet Fly Near
Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 20, 2014
The longest-lived robot ever sent to Mars came through its latest challenge in good health, reporting home on schedule after sheltering behind Mars from possible comet dust. NASA's Mars Odyssey was out of communications with Earth, as planned, while conducting observations of comet C/2013 A1 Siding Spring on Sunday, Oct. 19, as the comet flew near Mars. The comet sped within about 88,000 miles (139,500 kilometers) of Mars, equivalent to about one-third of the distance between Earth and Earth's moo ... read more

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MAVEN Studies Passing Comet and Its Effects NASA's newest orbiter at Mars, MAVEN, took precautions to avoid harm from a dust-spewing comet that flew near Mars today and is studying the flyby's effects on the Red Planet's atmosphere. The ... more		"Houston: We Have A Problem...But No Worries, Our Virtual Therapist Is On It" Hiking in the mountains or lying on the beach are good ways to relieve stress on Earth, but on spaceflights there's no way to get back to nature. Astronauts feeling stressed on long-duration flights ... more		NASA Soil Moisture Mapper Arrives at Launch Site A NASA spacecraft designed to track Earth's water in one of its most important, but least recognized forms - soil moisture - now is at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, to begin final prepara ... more
				Cosmic jets of young stars formed by magnetic fields Astrophysical jets are counted among our Universe's most spectacular phenomena: From the centers of black holes, quasars, or protostars, these rays of matter sometimes protrude several light years i ... more		Curious signal hints at dark matter Space scientists at the University of Leicester have detected a curious signal in the X-ray sky - one that provides a tantalising insight into the nature of mysterious Dark Matter. The Leicester tea ... more

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NASA Tool Helps Airliners Minimize Weather Delays In the heat of a summer afternoon, a line of thunderstorms develops in the skies over North Texas and threatens to wreak havoc with the timely flow of air traffic headed toward or away from Dallas/F ... more		NASA Begins Sixth Year of Airborne Antarctic Ice Change Study NASA is carrying out its sixth consecutive year of Operation IceBridge research flights over Antarctica to study changes in the continent's ice sheet, glaciers and sea ice. This year's airborne camp ... more		Space Operations Command takes control of Space-Based Infrared System UK aims to boost economic defences against security risks Air Force Leadership Stresses Modernization and Timely Congressional Funding		Europe secures new generation of weather satellites Contracts were signed last week to build three pairs of MetOp Second Generation satellites, ensuring the continuity of essential information for global weather forecasting and climate monitoring for ... more
				ADS signs MetOp-SG prime contract with ESA Airbus Defence and Space has signed the formal contracts with the European Space Agency (ESA) to design and build the second generation of Meteorological Operational (MetOp-SG) satellites. Covering ... more		Probing the past Using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope astronomers have made what may be the most reliable distance measurement yet of an object that existed in the Universe's formative years. The galaxy is one ... more

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LockMart Team Delivers Lightning Mapper Instrument For Weather Satellite A Lockheed Martin team delivered the first Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) instrument that will provide earlier alerts of severe storms and contribute to more accurate tornado warnings. T ... more		Molten metals in spin cycle on ESA's centrifuge The experimenters stared through bulletproof glass at the whirling 8 m-diameter centrifuge. Never mind the shaking or stirring of drink cocktails - what happens when you spin a cocktail of molten me ... more		Aral Sea's shrinkage boosts Central Asian dust emission by 7 percent Atomic-level study of brain protein opens door to new neurological treatments Desert soil microbes adapt to thrive in extreme dry conditions		EIAST: KhalifaSat design completed The Emirates Institution for Advanced Science and Technology (EIAST) has announced the completion of KhalifaSat's design, the first satellite that will be designed and built by Emirati engineers in ... more
Discovery of the Benesov meteorites 20 years after the bolide event Astronomy and Astrophysics is publishing the spectacular discovery of meteorite fragments 20 years after the corresponding bolide was seen in the skies of the Czech Republic. This discovery was made ... more		Construction secrets of a galactic metropolis Galaxy clusters are the largest objects in the Universe held together by gravity but their formation is not well understood. The Spiderweb Galaxy (formally known as MRC 1138-262 [1]) and its surroun ... more		First Evidence of a Hydrogen-deficient Supernova Progenitor A group of researchers led by Melina Bersten of Kavli IPMU recently presented a model that provides the first characterization of the progenitor for a hydrogen-deficient supernova. Their model predi ... more		The Cloudy Future of Arctic Sea Ice Climate change is a global phenomenon, yet Earth scientists are keeping a wary eye on one place in particular--the Arctic. "Polar regions are important for us to study right now," explains Tom Wagne ... more

	Milky Way Ransacks Nearby Dwarf Galaxies Astronomers using the National Science Foundation's Green Bank Telescope (GBT) in West Virginia, along with data from other large radio telescopes, have discovered that our nearest galactic neighbor ... more		Mars One -- and done? In 2012, the "Mars One" project, led by a Dutch nonprofit, announced plans to establish the first human colony on the Red Planet by 2025. The mission would initially send four astronauts on a one-wa ... more

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Inside the Milky Way		Wobbling of a Saturn moon hints at what lies beneath		Messenger Images Ice Near Mercury's North Pole		NASA's Opportunity Rover Gets Panorama Image at 'Wdowiak Ridge'		CASIS Issues RFP For EO Ideas Using ISS Technology
Tiny "Nanoflares" Might Heat the Sun's Corona		NASA Spacecraft Provides New Information About Sun's Atmosphere		ISS Astronauts Wrap Up Preps for Wednesday Spacewalk		Comet's Close Encounter 'One in a Million'		Progress-M Cargo Ship To Undock From ISS On Oct 27

Microbes in deep-sea rocks eat methane, lots of it

New satellite-borne weather warning system delivered

Rare 'baby rattle' molecules reveal new quantum properties of H2O and H2

Rare comet fly-by of Mars on Sunday

Icebergs once drifted to Florida, new climate model suggests

MAVEN spacecraft's first look at Mars holds surprises

Earth's magnetic field could flip within a human lifetime

Rediscovering Venus to Find Faraway Earths

ISS Spacewalkers Replace Power Regulator, Move Equipment

Getting To Know Super-Earths

Hubble Telescope Finds Potential Kuiper Belt Targets for New Horizons Pluto Mission

ESA confirms the primary landing site for Rosetta

Astronomers Spot Faraway Uranus-Like Planet

NASA Mission Provides Its First Look at Martian Upper Atmosphere

Rosetta Selflessly Beams Back Comet Selfie

Slow-Growing Galaxies Offer Window to Early Universe

Chinese scientist proposes new scientific satellites

US military's robot space plane lands back on Earth

Russia to Create Space-Based Ballistic Missile Warning System

COBALT delivers app-specific IO for established military application profiles

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