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July 15, 2015

Multiple Discoveries from NASA's New Horizons Pluto Mission
Laurel MD (SPX) Jul 16, 2015
Icy mountains on Pluto and a new, crisp view of its largest moon, Charon, are among the several discoveries announced Wednesday by the NASA's New Horizons team, just one day after the spacecraft's first ever Pluto flyby. "Pluto New Horizons is a true mission of exploration showing us why basic scientific research is so important," said John Grunsfeld, associate administrator for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. "The mission has had nine years to build expectations about what ... read more

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Charon's Surprising Youthful and Varied Terrain Remarkable new details of Pluto's largest moon Charon are revealed in this image from New Horizons' Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI), taken late on July 13, 2015 from a distance of 289,000 m ... more		Pluto's close-ups to offer high-resolution views Pluto's surface has long been a blur to sky watchers on Earth, but a NASA spacecraft on Wednesday should provide the first high-resolution images of the distant dwarf planet after a historic flyby mission. ... more		Celebrating 50 years of Martian imagery Fifty years ago today, the first image of Mars was beamed back by NASA's Mariner 4. The image, which was followed by 22 others, was first closeup of another planet. ... more
				Space crew praises US-Russian 'handshake in space' 40 years on Two Russians and an American in orbit commemorated Wednesday the 40th anniversary of the Apollo-Soyuz mission, when a "handshake in space" brought the two Cold War rivals closer together. ... more		US spacecraft sending back data for Pluto close-up Scientists are receiving data that will offer the closest look ever of Pluto later Wednesday, after the unmanned NASA spacecraft whizzed by the distant dwarf planet. ... more

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US spacecraft survives close encounter with Pluto An unmanned NASA spacecraft whizzed by Pluto, beaming to scientists a message that it survived its historic encounter before sending back the closest look ever of the distant dwarf planet. ... more		10 year journey to Pluto achieves historic encounter After a decade-long journey through our solar system, New Horizons made its closest approach to Pluto Tuesday, about 7,750 miles above the surface - roughly the same distance from New York to Mumbai ... more		SpaceX successfully launches Maxar Intelligence next-gen satellites OneNav introduces new L5-direct GNSS receiver in response to increased GPS jamming Macron floats Ukraine troop deployment if frontline breached		Curiosity rover finds evidence of Mars' primitive continental crust The ChemCam laser instrument on NASA's Curiosity rover has turned its beam onto some unusually light-colored rocks on Mars, and the results are surprisingly similar to Earth's granitic continental c ... more
				Engineers give invisibility cloaks a slimmer design Researchers have developed a new design for a cloaking device that overcomes some of the limitations of existing "invisibility cloaks." In a new study, electrical engineers at the University of Cali ... more		China-Brazil earth resources satellite put into operation An earth observation satellite jointly developed by China and Brazil was put into operation on Tuesday. The China-Brazil Earth Resource Satellite-04 (CBERS-04) was sent into orbit on Dec. 7, a ... more

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Europe advances with safer air travel A safer airspace over Europe by 2018 is materialising as ESA's Iris precursor project has begun development with the unlocking of a further euro 7.6 million of funding. The public-private partnersh ... more		Student satellite wins green light for Station deployment Following more than a year of intense effort channelled into a 10 cm box, the first of ESA's student satellites to be released from the International Space Station has been accepted for launch. A st ... more		Largest carbon credit programme poised for quality label Kids study in overheated slum as Philippines shuts schools IncreasingAfrican tropical forest fires linked to climate change and deforestation		Discovery of zebra stripes in space resolves 50-year mystery In the 1960s, NASA launched six satellites to study the Earth's atmosphere, magnetosphere and the space between Earth and the moon. Using observations from those satellites, Christopher Russell, a U ... more
30 launches planned in next three fiscals: ISRO chief The Indian space agency has a roadmap of 10 launches per year for the next three financial years or a total of 30 launches in the period, its chief A.S.Kiran Kumar said on Monday. The Indian S ... more		A Dark Matter bridge in our cosmic neighborhood By using the best available data to monitor galactic traffic in our neighborhood, Noam Libeskind from the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) and his collaborators have built a detailed ... more		Summer School radar obs shine new light on near-Earth asteroid A team of scientists participating in a radio astronomy summer school had the unexpected opportunity to observe a recently discovered near-Earth asteroid as it zipped past our planet on July 7. The ... more		Why do puddles stop spreading? When you spill a bit of water onto a tabletop, the puddle spreads - and then stops, leaving a well-defined area of water with a sharp boundary. There's just one problem: The formulas scientists use ... more

	Disney gives sneak peek for planned China theme park US entertainment giant Disney on Wednesday unveiled details of its planned theme park in Shanghai, promising Chinese features and new attractions not found in its five other resorts. ... more		Down to the quantum dot Using a single molecule as a sensor, scientists in Julich have successfully imaged electric potential fields with unrivalled precision. The ultrahigh-resolution images provide information on the dis ... more

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