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October 19, 2016

Euro-Russian craft enters Mars orbit, but lander's fate unknown
Darmstadt, Germany (AFP) Oct 19, 2016
Europe and Russia celebrated placing a robot explorer into Mars orbit on Wednesday, but ground controllers faced an anxious night searching for the tiny lander it had despatched to the Red Planet's surface. The "Schiaparelli" lander, a trial-run for a Mars rover to follow, was meant to touch down at 1448 GMT, after separating from its mothership, the Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO), on Sunday. But contact with the paddling pool-sized lander was lost during its six-minute descent through the Red Planet's ... read more

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Two Russians, one American blast off to ISS Two Russian cosmonauts and a NASA astronaut soared into orbit in a Soyuz spacecraft Wednesday at the start of a two-day journey to the International Space Station. ... more		Chinese astronauts reach orbiting lab: Xinhua Two Chinese astronauts entered the country's new orbiting space laboratory for the first time on Wednesday, state media reported, as Beijing works towards having its own space station. ... more		Astronauts enjoy range of delicacies on Shenzhou XI The two astronauts headed for the Tiangong II space laboratory aboard the Shenzhou XI enjoyed their first meal about four hours after the spacecraft blasted off at 7:30am on Monday. The lunch includ ... more
				Scientists simulate a space mission in Mars-analogue Utah desert A barren, rocky desert landscape and not a single soul around - to come as close as possible to the inhospitable conditions on the Red Planet, scientists of the Robotics Innovation Center of the Ger ... more		China's permanent station plans ride on mission As a Chinese spaceship rockets through the void toward a rendezvous with a new Chinese space lab, experts say a monumental step in the nation's long march in space exploration is about to occur. ... more

Guiding Supply Ship to the International Space Station The Cygnus spacecraft launched Oct. 17, embarking on its sixth cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station (ISS) under NASA's Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) effort. ... more		At the Jersey shore, signs of a comet, and a climate crisis In a new study, scientists say they have found evidence along the New Jersey coast that an extraterrestrial object hit the earth at the same time a mysterious release of carbon dioxide suddenly warm ... more		China emphasizes commitment to peaceful space activities ICEYE secures substantial growth investment to bolster its SAR satellite fleet Interconnected quantum system boosts long-distance secure communication		The Sun's coronal tail wags its photospheric dog Solar physicists have long viewed the rotation of sunspots as a primary generator of solar flares - the sudden, powerful blasts of electromagnetic radiation and charged particles that burst into spa ... more
				Wayward Field Lines Challenge Solar Radiation Models In addition to the constant emission of warmth and light, our sun sends out occasional bursts of solar radiation that propel high-energy particles toward Earth. These solar energetic particles, or S ... more		How Deadly Would A Nearby Gamma Ray Burst Be? Despite the obvious doom and gloom associated with mass extinctions, they have a tendency to capture our imagination. After all, the sudden demise of the dinosaurs, presumably due to an asteroid str ... more

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Recently Active Lava Flows on Eastern Flank of Idunn Mons on Venus The European Space Agency's Venus Express mission has provided a great amount of data from the surface and atmosphere of Earth's inner twin planet. Among these observations was the mapping of the so ... more		Russian Defense Ministry Can Soon Get Five New Reconnaissance Satellites The Russian Defense Ministry has signed a contract with the Lavochkin Research and Production Association on the development of a radar reconnaissance satellite system, the Russian Izvestia newspape ... more		Tracing life's origins: Cambridge team explores early Earth conditions Satellite technology from Surrey University aids Mauritius in illegal fishing detection West Antarctic ice shelf stability threatened by feedback loop		N. Korea missile exploded shortly after lift-off: Seoul An explosion almost immediately after launch was behind the failure of North Korea's latest test-firing of a powerful medium-range missile, the South Korean military confirmed Monday. ... more
A short jump from single-celled ancestors to animals The first animals evolved from their single-celled ancestors around 800 million years ago, but new evidence suggests that this leap to multi-celled organisms in the tree of life may not have been qu ... more		Drivers of evolution hidden in plain sight Research led by the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) and the University of Washington has shown that the biological diversity needed for evolution can be generated by changes in protein ... more		A team of physicists dispels Rayleigh's curse The resolution of an optical system (like a telescope or a camera) is limited by the so-called Rayleigh criterion. An international team, led by Complutense University of Madrid, has broken this lim ... more		Efficiency plus versatility Antimicrobial cutting boards. Flame-retardant carpets. Friction-resistant bearings. Engineered surfaces add value to the things we use, providing extra layers of safety, easing their operation, pres ... more

	A new spin on superconductivity Researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have made a discovery that could lay the foundation for quantum superconducting devices. Their breakthr ... more		Two-dimensional spin-orbit coupling for Bose-Einstein condensates realized Spin-orbit coupling is one of the fundamental effects in quantum physics. It plays a vital role in many basic physic phenomena and exotic quantum states. These phenomena led to the foundation of sev ... more

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