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November 25, 2013

How Habitable Is Mars? A New View of the Viking Experiments
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Nov 25, 2013
Almost 40 years ago, two NASA probes on the surface of Mars scooped the soil in search of signs of microbes. The results that came back from the twin Viking missions were, to say the least, ambiguous. The scientific literature contains decades of debate over what they found. A new study took a bit of a different track. Rather than focusing on the question of life, the SETI Institute-lead study, which was carried out at NASA Ames and recently published in the journal Astrobiology, was more interest ... read more

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Russia's Space Program Lacks Private Investment Current state restrictions hinder the private sector from financing the development of Russia's space industry, a senior space official said Thursday. Russia is expected to spend 2 trillion ru ... more		Spaceflight Deploys Planet Labs' Dove 3 Spacecraft from the Dnepr Spaceflight, Inc - The Space Logistics Company - has announced that it successfully deployed the Dove 3 earth imaging spacecraft from an International Space Company (ISC) Kosmotras operated Dnepr la ... more		Ecuador launches second nano-satellite Ecuador's Civilian Space Agency (EXA) successfully launched the second nano-satellite into space early Thursday, the government-run news agency Andes reported. The "Krysaor" satellite was laun ... more
				Winter Means Less Power for Solar Panels Opportunity is ascending 'Solander Point' at the rim of 'Endeavour Crater.' The rover is maintaining favorable northerly tilts for improved energy production. Opportunity is experiencing the p ... more		Searching for Cosmic Accelerators Via IceCube In our universe there are particle accelerators 40 million times more powerful than the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. Scientists don't know what these cosmic accelerators are or where they ar ... more

CubeSats, SmallSats and MicroSats

Dnepr Rocket Puts International Satellites Into Orbit A Dnepr rocket carrying a number of international satellites delivered its cargo into near-earth orbit Thursday following a launch from the Yasny facility in Russia's Orenburg province. "The l ... more		Unusual greenhouse gases may have raised ancient Martian temperature Much like the Grand Canyon, Nanedi Valles snakes across the Martian surface suggesting that liquid water once crossed the landscape, according to a team of researchers who believe that molecular hyd ... more		Despite Western pressure, China in no hurry to reduce Russia support N. Korea fires ballistic missiles after denying Russia arms transfers Taiwan's Lai to bolster 'porcupine' defence against China threat		NASA, Planetary Resources Sign Agreement to Crowdsource Asteroid Detection NASA and Planetary Resources Inc., of Bellevue, Wash., are partnering to develop crowd-sourced software solutions to enhance detection of near-Earth objects using agency-funded data. The agreement i ... more
				NASA Spacecraft Begins Collecting Lunar Atmosphere Data NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) is ready to begin collecting science data about the moon. On Nov. 20, the spacecraft successfully entered its planned orbit around the m ... more		UN sounds alarm over ozone-damaging nitrous oxide Levels of nitrous oxide, a gas that both depletes the ozone layer and stokes global warming, could nearly double by mid-century, the UN warned on Thursday. ... more

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Volcano discovered smoldering under a kilometer of ice in West Antarctica It wasn't what they were looking for but that only made the discovery all the more exciting. In January 2010 a team of scientists had set up two crossing lines of seismographs across Marie Byrd Land ... more		Evolution can select for evolvability Evolution does not operate with a goal in mind; it does not have foresight. But organisms that have a greater capacity to evolve may fare better in rapidly changing environments. This raises the que ... more		For sale: unique piece of land in strategic Arctic archipelago Daily ice loss in Greenland tracked by new GPS method Brazil's Porto Alegre: a flood disaster waiting to happen		Comet ISON, hype aside, is an intriguing cosmic visitor Comet of the century. Super comet. Hyped by the media and the subject of a couple of drum-beating TV documentaries, a dusty cosmic snowball named Comet ISON has a lot to live up to. ... more
				NASA Begins First Antarctic Airborne Campaign from McMurdo Station NASA's Operation IceBridge has begun its 2013 Antarctic field campaign with the arrival of the agency's aircraft and scientists at the National Science Foundation's McMurdo Station in Antarctica. ... more		Amber Provides New Insights Into the Evolution of the Earth's Atmosphere An international team of researchers led by Ralf Tappert, University of Innsbruck, reconstructed the composition of the Earth's atmosphere of the last 220 million years by analyzing modern and fossi ... more

Big Boost for China's Moon Lander

NASA Spacecraft Begins Collecting Lunar Atmosphere Data

Rediscovered Apollo data gives first measure of how fast Moon dust piles up

Winter Means Less Power for Solar Panels

Rover Team Working to Diagnose Electrical Issue

Unusual greenhouse gases may have raised ancient Martian temperature

NASA Advances Effort to Launch Astronauts Again from US Soil to Space Station

Israeli experts launches space studies course for teachers

Planning group calls for National Space Policy in Britain

More Moon Missions For China

China shows off moon rover model before space launch

China providing space training

	Oxygen, phosphorous and early life on Earth Two billion years ago the Earth system was recovering from perhaps the single-most profound modification of its surface environments: the oxygenation of the atmosphere and oceans. This led to a seri ... more		Spanish scientists are designing a robot for inspecting tunnels Currently, maintenance and safety inspection of tunnels used for vehicular traffic is carried out by direct in situ observation. This process, which is slow and requires intensive labor, requires th ... more		A Superconductor-Surrogate Earns Its Stripes Understanding superconductivity - whereby certain materials can conduct electricity without any loss of energy - has proved to be one of the most persistent problems in modern physics. Scientists ha ... more		Billionaire eyes private Mars mission in 2017 Billionaire Dennis Tito has revealed his scheme for dispatching two astronauts to the red planet as early as December 2017, saying that 'rare alignments' of planets should be exploited as the contex ... more

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Big Boost for China's Moon Lander		ESA launches Swarm research satellites in Russia		Russia launches cluster of foreign satellites		Physicist's journey reveals smaller asteroids could cause bigger problems		Chandra Helps Confirm Evidence of Jet in Milky Way's Black Hole
IceCube pushes neutrinos to the forefront of astronomy		China launches remote-sensing satellite		NASA Advances Effort to Launch Astronauts Again from US Soil to Space Station		NASA Instrument Determines Hazards of Deep-Space Radiation		Infant Galaxies Merging Near 'Cosmic Dawn'

Monster gamma-ray burst in our cosmic neighborhood

HZDR researchers simulate electrons in astrophysical plasma jets

Whither the teakettle whistle

SlipChip Counts Molecules with Chemistry and a Cell Phone

Optimizing electronic correlations for superconductivity

Overcoming Brittleness: New Insights into Bulk Metallic Glass

Revisiting quantum effects in MEMS

Intelsat General To Provide Satellite Services To US Marines

Javelin Joint Venture awarded contract for Javelin Weapon System

Graphene nanoribbons for 'reading' DNA

Chaotic physics in ferroelectrics hints at brain-like computing

Arianespace orders ten new Vega launchers from ELV

Asteroids should be colonized or used as transport to planets

XCOR and ULA Achieve Major Milestone With Liquid Hydrogen Engine

Scientists find that Mars, not Earth, shakes up some near-Earth asteroids

Research uncovers secrets of Mars' birth from unique meteorite

Rediscovered Apollo data gives first measure of how fast Moon dust piles up

Israeli experts launches space studies course for teachers

Rover Team Working to Diagnose Electrical Issue

A new, flying jellyfish-like machine

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