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July 16, 2015

Icy mountain ranges seen on Pluto after NASA flyby
Miami (AFP) July 15, 2015
Icy mountain ranges can be seen rising from Pluto's surface, according to the first close-up images released Wednesday from NASA's New Horizon's spacecraft after its historic of flyby of the dwarf planet. The mountains' elevation reaches 11,000 feet (3,400 meters), the US space agency said, or about as high as the Rocky Mountains. Scientists were also stunned to see a close-up section of Pluto that showed no sign of craters, despite its home in the Kuiper Belt, the region beyond Neptune where ... 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		Multiple Discoveries from NASA's New Horizons Pluto Mission 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 f ... 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
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Mass map shines light on dark matter Dark matter may find it tougher to hide in our universe. An international team of researchers has developed a new map of the distribution of dark matter in the universe using data from the Dark Ener ... more		Yinchuan to host China-Arab satellite service industry demonstration site Yinchuan Economic and Technical Development Zone and China Alliance of Satellite Application Service signed a cooperation agreement lately on the establishment and operation of New Silk Road Satelli ... more		Major advancements in US space domain awareness through Space Systems Command Enhancing connectivity and readiness at Space Systems Command Space Systems Command Completes Key Software Upgrade for OPIR Monitoring at FORGE		Football Shaped Asteroid Observed by Students at NAIC/NRAO Images of the near-Earth asteroid 2015 HM10 were captured by students and researchers participating in the NAIC/NRAO 8th Single-Dish Radio Astronomy School as it passed by Earth on Wednesday, July 8 ... more
				Indra Finishes Implementation Of Main Center For Paz Satellite Under a contract with INTA, Indra has successfully led the implementation of the main management center for Paz, the earth observation satellite which Spain will launch into space later this year. ... more		Jupiter twin discovered around solar twin So far, exoplanet surveys have been most sensitive to planetary systems that are populated in their inner regions by massive planets, down to a few times the mass of the Earth [1]. This contrasts wi ... more

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Astronomers bring a new hope to find 'Tatooine' planets Sibling suns - made famous in the "Star Wars" scene where Luke Skywalker gazes toward a double sunset - and the planets around them may be more common than we've thought, and Cornell astronomers are ... more		Ariane 5 lofts two geo birds for teleco and weather customers Arianespace has successfully launched two geostationary satellites: Star One C4 for the private operator Embratel Star One, the leading satellite communications company in South America, and MSG-4 f ... more		NASA's ORCA, AirHARP Projects Paved Way for PACE to Reach Space NASA study reveals comprehensive global river water accounting Asterra debuts groundbreaking L-band SAR API for commercial use		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
Better memory with faster lasers DVDs and Blu-ray disks contain so-called phase-change materials that morph from one atomic state to another after being struck with pulses of laser light, with data "recorded" in those two atomic st ... more		The quantum physics of artificial light harvesting Plants and bacteria make use of sunlight with remarkably high efficiency: nine out of ten absorbed light particles are being put to use in an ordinary bacterium. For years, it has been a press ... more		Graphene-based film can be used for efficient cooling of electronics Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology have developed a method for efficiently cooling electronics using graphene-based film. The film has a thermal conductivity capacity that is four time ... more		Heat buckyballs to help environment Rice University scientists are forging toward tunable carbon-capture materials with a new study that shows how chemical changes affect the abilities of enhanced buckyballs to confine greenhouse gase ... more

	Syracuse physicists confirm existence of rare pentaquarks discovery Physicists in Syracuse University's College of Arts and Sciences have confirmed the existence of two rare pentaquark states. Their discovery, which has taken place at the CERN Large Hadron Collider ... more		Law governing anomalous heat conduction revealed How heat travels, matters. Yet, there is still no consensus on the exact physical mechanism that causes anomalous heat conduction - despite the existence of previous numerical simulation, theoretica ... more

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