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Herschel Finds Water In Cosmic DesertPasadena CA (JPL) Sep 02, 2010 The Herschel infrared space observatory has discovered that ultraviolet starlight is the key ingredient for making water in space. It is the only explanation for why a dying star is surrounded by a gigantic cloud of hot water vapor. Herschel is a European Space Agency mission with important participation from NASA. Every recipe needs a secret ingredient. When astronomers discovered an unexpected cloud of water vapor around the old star IRC+10216 using NASA's Submillimeter Wave Astronomy Satellite ... read more |
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Sydney, Australia (SPX) Aug 31, 2010Every year, the world is treated to several well-known meteor showers. The Leonids, Draconids, Perseids and others usually get mentioned in the mainstream media, giving the general public a taste of just how much material flies at our planet from space. The predictable, regular showers are produced by debris from the tails of comets, and astronomers have been able to link certain events to ... more  
Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 30, 2010One of the instruments on a 2016 mission to orbit Mars will provide daily maps of global, pole-to-pole, vertical distributions of the temperature, dust, water vapor and ice clouds in the Martian atmosphere. The joint European-American mission, ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter, will seek faint gaseous clues about possible life on Mars. This instrument, called the ExoMars Climate Sounder, will supp ... more  
Lincoln NE (SPX) Aug 31, 2010A host of national policy experts, including the vice-chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, NASA's deputy administrator and a renowned security expert and cryptographer, will tackle a range of cyberwarfare and U.S. space strategy issues at the University of Nebraska College of Law's Space and Cyber Policy The first day will feature experts on cyberwarfare strategies and will include a key ... more |
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Japan begins destroying WWII weapons in ChinaBeijing (AFP) Sept 1, 2010 Japan began Tuesday to destroy chemical weapons left over in China from its brutal World War II invasion, a move mandated by its international treaty obligations, state press said. Hideo Hiraoka, vice minister of Japan's cabinet office, announced the beginning of the disposal of thousands of left-over weapons at a ceremony in east China's Nanjing city, Xinhua news agency said. "Today's move marks a new phase in the disposal of abandoned chemical weapons in China, in which the work has shifted fr ... read more |
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