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August 09, 2011
MARSDAILY
Opportunity On Final Rove To Endeavour Crater
Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 09, 2011
The NASA Mars rover Opportunity has gained a view of Endeavour crater from barely more than a football-field's distance away from the rim. The rim of Endeavour has been the mission's long-term goal since mid-2008. Endeavour offers the setting for plenty of productive work by Opportunity. The crater is 14 miles (22 kilometers) in diameter - more than 25 times wider than Victoria crater, an earlier stop that Opportunity examined for two years. Observations by orbiting spacecraft indicate ... read more

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EARTH OBSERVATION

NPP Satellite Completes Comprehensive Testing
by Cynthia M O'Carroll for Goddard Space Flight Center The NASA National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) Preparatory Project (NPP) has successfully completed its ... more
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EARTH OBSERVATION

Tohoku Tsunami Created Icebergs In Antarctica
A NASA scientist and her colleagues were able to observe for the first time the power of an earthquake and tsunami to break off large icebergs a hemisphere away. Kelly Brunt, a cryosphere spec ... more
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EXO LIFE

DNA Building Blocks Can Be Made in Space
NASA-funded researchers have evidence that some building blocks of DNA, the molecule that carries the genetic instructions for life, found in meteorites were likely created in space. The resea ... more
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SPACEMART

QuetZsat-1 Satellite Delivered To Baikonur Launch Base
SES S.A. and Space Systems/Loral announce that the QuetzSat-1 satellite has safely arrived at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on board an Antonov cargo plane. The QuetzSat-1 spacecraft, ... more
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DRAGON SPACE

Toys for Tiangong
Wanna buy a spaceship? No, you can't have the real thing. But you can buy a model at a reasonable price. That's been the driving force behind a strongly entrenched space modeling industry for decade ... more
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SKY NIGHTLY

International Astronomical Union congress to be held next year in Beijing
About 3,000 astronomers will get together in Beijing in August 2012 to attend the 28th congress of the International Astronomical Union (IAU). The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the Chi ... more
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SATURN DAILY

Putting it all Together on Titan
Three of Titan's major surface features-dunes, craters and the enigmatic Xanadu-appear in this radar image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The hazy bright area at the left that extends to the ... more
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SDA expands Tracking Layer satellite awards and related missile defense contracts
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LAUNCH PAD

Lockheed Martin-Built BSAT-3c/JCSAT-110R Satellite Launched Successfully For Japanese Firms
The BSAT-3c/JCSAT-110R broadcasting and telecommunications satellite, designed and built by Lockheed Martin for the Broadcasting Satellite System Corporation (B-SAT) and SKY Perfect JSAT Corporation ... more
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EXO LIFE

Meteorites as tool kits for creating life on Earth
Meteorites hold a record of the chemicals that existed in the early Solar System and that may have been a crucial source of the organic compounds that gave rise to life on Earth. Since the 1960s, sc ... more
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EARTH OBSERVATION

Software on the Fly
Much of the activity that enables the Pavilion Lake Research Project (PLRP) to reach its scientific goals happens behind the scenes. In this latest post I'm going to talk a bit about the software gl ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

NASA funds 30 new space research projects
The US space agency announced funding for 30 new space projects Monday, including ways to protect astronauts from deep-space radiation, eliminate space debris and improve spacesuit technology. ... more
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JOVIAN DREAMS

45th Space Wing Supports Successful Atlas V Juno Launch
The U.S. Air Force's 45th Space Wing provided flawless Eastern Range support for the successful launch of the United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with NASA's Juno spacecraft Friday. The launch occ ... more
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MARSDAILY

Mars' northern polar regions in transition
A newly released image from ESA's Mars Express shows the north pole of Mars during the red planet's summer solstice. All the carbon dioxide ice has gone, leaving just a bright cap of water ice. ... more
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ENERGY TECH

Fusion diagnostic developed at PPPL sheds light on plasma behavior at EAST
An instrument developed by researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) has enabled a research team at a fusion energy experiment in China to observe--in ... more
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JOVIAN DREAMS

Space Scientists Seek Returns from JEDI
A Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) instrument that will delve into the dynamics of the solar system's largest planetary magnetic field was launched Friday aboard NASA's Juno spacecraft ... more
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OUTER PLANETS

Citizen Scientists Discover a New Horizons Flyby Target
The world is invited to help discover a potential new, icy follow-on destination for NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, using the Ice Hunters website. New Horizons is currently en route to make the fir ... more
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OUTER PLANETS

View from the Summit: Hunting for KBOs at the Top of the World
John Spencer is a member of the New Horizons mission science team, and the coordinator and self-described "cat-herder-in-chief" for the effort to find a Kuiper Belt object flyby target for New Horiz ... more
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PHYSICS NEWS

Europe Takes Step Toward Detecting Gravitational Waves
Scientists operating Europe's gravitational wave observatories have combined efforts this summer to search for gravitational waves. This groundbreaking research is being taken forward in Europe whil ... more
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MARSDAILY

Briny water may be at work in seasonal flows on Mars
Dark, finger-like features that appear and extend down some Martian slopes during the warmest months of the Mars year may show activity of salty water on Mars. They fade in winter, then recur the ne ... more
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TIME AND SPACE

The Physics of Crop Circles
In this month's edition of Physics World, Richard Taylor, director of the Materials Science Institute at the University of Oregon, takes a serious, objective look at a topic that critics might claim ... more
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STATION NEWS

Crew Stows Spacesuits, Completes Robotics Checkout
The six Expedition 28 crew members aboard the International Space Station wrapped up a busy workweek Friday as they stowed equipment used in Wednesday's spacewalk and completed an extensive checkout ... more
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MARSDAILY

Nearing First Landfall of Large Crater
Opportunity is now only about 120 meters (394 feet) from "Spirit Point," the first landfall on the rim of Endeavour crater. The rover drove four times in the last week on Sols 2670, 2671, 2674 ... more
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MICROSAT BLITZ

NASA Announces Next Opportunity For Cubesat Space Missions
NASA is seeking proposals for small satellite payloads to fly on rockets planned to launch between 2012 and 2014. These miniature spacecraft, known as CubeSats, could be auxiliary payload on previou ... more
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ROCKET SCIENCE

NASA Selects Companies To Study Storing Cryogenic Propellants In Space
NASA has selected four companies to develop concepts for storing and transferring cryogenic propellants in space. These capabilities are important for the agency's future deep space human exploratio ... more
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LAUNCH PAD

Arianespace blasts another pair of satellites into orbit
Arianespace orbited a pair of commercial relay satellites for direct television broadcasting services tonight on Ariane 5's fourth heavy-lift mission of 2011. During a 38-minute flight from th ... more
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JOVIAN DREAMS

NASA launches Juno mission to Jupiter
The US space agency on Friday launched an unmanned spacecraft, Juno, on a five-year journey toward Jupiter for clues on how the gas giant and other planets in our solar system were formed. ... more
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EARTH OBSERVATION

La Ninas distant effects in East Africa
For 20 000 years, climate variability in East Africa has been following a pattern that is evidently a remote effect of the ENSO phenomenon (El Nino Southern Oscillation) known as El Nino/La Nina. Du ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

Boeing Selects Atlas V Rocket for Initial Commercial Crew Launches
Boeing has selected the United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket to launch the Boeing Crew Space Transportation (CST)-100 spacecraft from Florida's Space Coast. "This selection marks a majo ... more
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JOVIAN DREAMS

Georgia Tech Scientists To Help NASA Interpret Data From Juno Mission
In August of 2016, when NASA's Juno Mission begins sending back information about the atmosphere of the planet Jupiter, research done by Georgia Institute of Technology engineers using a 2,400-pound ... more
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ICE WORLD

Sea level rise less from Greenland, more from Antarctica
During the last prolonged warm spell on Earth, the oceans were at least four meters - and possibly as much as 6.5 meters, or about 20 feet - higher than they are now. Where did all that extra ... more
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MARSDAILY

NASA Spacecraft Data Suggest Water Flowing on Mars
Observations from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have revealed possible flowing water during the warmest months on Mars. "NASA's Mars Exploration Program keeps bringing us closer to determining ... more
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