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Rosetta Spacecraft Returns Unique Glimpses Of Asteroid LutetiaBonn, Germany (SPX) Jul 12, 2010 The European Rosetta spacecraft has achieved a further milestone on its journey to the comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko. On 10 July 2010 at 17:45 CEST, the orbiter flew past asteroid Lutetia on its second and final pass of the asteroid belt at about 15 kilometres per second - 54,000 kilometres per hour - merely 3162 kilometres from the asteroid. The confirmation was delivered at 18:10 CEST to ESA's European Space Operations Centre in Darmstadt. The German Aerospace Center is participating in this uniqu ... read more |
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Moffett Field CA (SPX) Jul 09, 2010Over the past two hundred years, a standard model emerged to explain how solar systems form. Using our own solar system as a guide, the model explains the existence of a central star (our Sun), an inner system of rocky, "terrestrial" planets, and an outer system of "gas giant" planets, all orbiting in nearly the same plane of rotation as the central star. Recent discoveries of planetary sy ... more  
Washington DC (SPX) Jul 09, 2010The lunar module Orion landed in the Descartes Highlands of the moon on April 21, 1972. The Apollo 16 mission targeted a highland region. Originally thought to be a volcanic site, the samples returned by Apollo 16 actually indicated that the highlands of the moon primarily consist of impact-formed rocks (breccias), a substantial scientific result. The featured image is an LROC NAC image of ... more  
Payerne, Switzerland (AFP) July 8, 2010A solar powered aircraft made history Thursday after flying around the clock on the sun's energy alone, bringing the dream of perpetual flight a step closer. After 26 hours in the air, the experimental Solar Impulse aircraft, flown by Andre Borschberg, made a seamless landing at Payerne airbase in western Switzerland at 9.01 am (0701 GMT), about three hours after daybreak. "It's the firs ... more |
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U.S., Russia complete major spy swapVienna (UPI) Jul 9, 2010 In a Cold War-style operation that would have made thriller novelist John le Carre proud, the United States and Russia on Friday orchestrated a large spy exchange. The stage for the biggest spy exchange since the end of the Cold War was Vienna's Schwechat airport, where at around 11:20 a.m. Friday a Russian military plane and a small U.S. charter machine operated by Vision Airlines landed almost simultaneously, carrying 14 spies from east and west. Both planes came to a halt only a few yards ap ... read more |
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